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A Prayer About Wisdom
If any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him. James 1:5
Heavenly Father, how I praise you for free and full access into your presence, all the time, all because you have declared all your children to be perfectly righteous in your Son, Jesus. And I praise you that as I come today seeking wisdom, I’m kissed by your welcome and inundated with your generosity.
Indeed, I really need your wisdom, Father, about a few matters that currently confuse me, all of them centering on who I am as a relational person. However you wish you to inform my heart, the peace I have is that you will always do so in concert with the gift of your Word.
Father, I need you to show me the difference between a healthy costly investment in people’s lives versus an unhealthy entanglement and enmeshment. I know the gospel is always calling me and resourcing me for loving as Jesus loves me, but sometimes I don’t really know what that looks like. Help me, Father, help me.
I need wisdom, Father, to discern the difference between rightly validating the emotions of those I love versus wrongly taking responsibility for their emotions. My broken default mode will probably always be to try to “fix” people, but I confess, yet again, you are not calling me to fix anyone, but to love everyone. Grant me wisdom, dear Father, grant me wisdom.
I need wisdom, Father, about my own emotional world. The emotion of anger has always confused and threatened me. Help me to know when the anger I feel is nothing more than the response of a little boy not getting his way. Help me to know when the anger I swallow, should be expressed appropriately, not swallowed. Help me to get angry in the face of injustice that I might love redemptively in the face of evil. Help me to listen and seek to understand the emotion of anger in others, and not rush-to-judgment or rush out of their story too fast.
Father, just praying this prayer stirs up so many other thoughts and feelings inside my heart. My joy is in knowing that we can keep this conversation going throughout the day. My great joy is in knowing that you will give me and my friends the wisdom we need, and you will do so generously. You gave all our fault to Jesus on the cross that we might live in your permanent world of all your favor. So very Hallelujah we cry, and so very Amen we pray.

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