This is not original. This was heard by this Prodigal through the tape ministry of the College Church of the Nazarene, in Olathe, Kansas. This was played over and over as I sat in the cell of a State Penitentiary.
And the trust I so desparately needed then in that environment, I still need today almost eight months after my release.
Learning to lean on the Savior is not a once done, always have thing. It is a daily choice and I need His help and His guidance.
Maybe this prayer of this godly man will help focus your prayer for trust as it did mine.
Heavenly Father, I ask Your forgiveness for the many times I have failed to live in perfect trust. I confess that I often find myself anxious and fretting and worrying. I pray today that you will teach me that You will give to me the grace to trust You more. Not more as in quantity, but in quality. May my trust be more deliberate.
Give me the patience to wait through the times when it feels like nothing is happening. Give me the courage to believe in the promises of Your word. You have demonstrated Your faithfulness so many times in the past and yet sometimes my memory is so short.
Remind me this morning to trust in You,
to commit my way to you,
to delight in you,
to rest in you.
Teach me and show me how, through the power of Your Spirit, to trust more perfectly. I commit to You the unanswered questions and unsolved issues of my life, the frightening things that seem to wait out on the horizon of my life. I offer them all to You this morning. Help me to trust that You will see me through – that You will care for all that is involved in my life.
