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A Prayer for Relying on God’s Unfailing Love

      The best-equipped army cannot save a king, nor is great strength enough to save a warrior. Don’t count on your warhorse to give you victory—for all its strength, it cannot save you. But the Lord watches over those who fear him, those who rely on his unfailing love. Ps. 33:16-18 (NLT)

     Dear Lord Jesus, though we avoid it like the plague, it’s a good thing to come to the end of ourselves—to be in situations where all of our resources and strength, wisdom and cunning, magic and mojo are simply not enough. Indeed, it is a gospel thing to realize whatever worked in the past is not working in the present; to feel the confusion of not knowing what to do next; and to feel the helplessness of being out of control.

     For only in those times do we fully abandon ourselves to the God who alone can part Red Seas (Ex .14); overthrow whole Midianite armies with three hundred gun-less soldiers (Judges 7); take down Goliaths with a pebble (1 Sam. 17); feed multitudes with a few fish and pieces of bread (John 6); and raise a dead man for the salvation of his people and the transformation of the cosmos (1 Cor. 15).

     Hallelujah, Jesus, you are that dead man who now lives, and by your finished work, we now live in the permanent favor of God and have been given all the resources of Abba’s unfailing love. In this very moment, we abandon ourselves to God’s immeasurable, inexhaustible, incomparable love. There is no other supply sufficient to the need; no other strength sufficient for the task; no other balm sufficient for the pain; no other rest sufficient for the exhaustion; no other hope sufficient for the crises.

     We bring our bewildered hearts to you. We bring our struggling marriages to you. We bring our failing health to you. We bring our conflicted relationships to you. We bring our wayward children to you. We bring our idols, addictions, and obsessions to you. We bring the brokenness of our communities to you. We bring it all to you, Jesus. You alone are worthy, and you alone are able. So very Amen we pray, in your merciful and mighty name. 

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