I Surrender
I was mad.
I was spit fire mad.
Someone spewed out unkindness publicly. The foolish words pierced like swords.
I wanted to take those words and hurl them right back with a twist. I needed a righteous comeback. (Is there such thing as a righteous comeback?)
The correct words did not come, so I decided to Google my response. I can’t remember what I typed into the search box exactly, but I do remember that the Lord stopped me right in my tracks.
On my screen appeared the words I needed to hear. It was a prayer actually. A “Pray Big” kind of prayer that only broken people with empty hands are brave enough to utter.
Lord, have Your way in me.
I am getting weepy as I type this.
Lord, have Your way in me.
Want God to move mountains in your life this year? This is where we begin.
I surrender.
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This year, my desire is to lift up holy hands and “Pray Big.” Want to join me? I’ve created a private “Pray Big” Facebook group for like-minded sisters to share their stories and surrender each one to our mountain-moving God in prayer. Let’s cry out to God together.
This is the second time I’ve read words this morning about not letting anger get ahold of me so that harsh words escape my mouth.
Yep. Slow learner here.
Thanks for peeling my eyes open, uh, I mean posting.
Surrendering to Him.
Donna
visiting from Playdates With God link up
One of the things I really love about God is that He’s big enough for my worries and anger. I always pray, when I feel that way, telling Him how I don’t agree at all with Him. How I’m totally against of what He wants to do to me, or me to do. I tell Him how angry I am and how angry everything makes me, how I don’t trust Him in my heart but how I’m going to trust Him, since there’s nothing else I can do. I grudgingly admit that He knows the best, and that He has always been there for me. And that what He plans is the best plan after all. And that I can’t trust Him or accept His plans by myself but I need Him to change my heart, again.
After some time, the change of heart happens. It can be gradual or happen at once. But little by little, I can trust, I can thank, and I can see how good He is and how wise His desicions are.
But the best thing is that He lets me be afraid and angry and is there for me, always!
LOVE the Pray Big theme! Fits right in with all God is speaking to me through Mark Batteron’s “The Circle Maker” — what a challenging book and idea of expecting God to be as big as He is. Thank you for linking at Unforced Rhythms.
Let me let all anger go. Let me trust in your ways and not my perceptions. Thank you for this encouragement to go to God. We all get mad, but it is what we do with it that matters. We can pray BIG and trust that God will answer BIG. Thank you for your encouragement today. I cheer you on!
Oh yes, I have been there and done that too! Good encouragement to leave it with God rather than have our say and possibly damage our witness in doing so. I need the reminder!
Thank you for being so honest, Lyli. We so easily want our own way, don’t we? It’s hard to surrender all our words, thoughts, and feelings to our God who is in control of everything. I join you in clinging to the prayer “Lord, have Your way in me!”
I read an article written by a friend about her “pray big” experience. It was born in obedience, not in trust. Put God, I think, He knows we will all take different paths to “pray big” and uses us where we are. Praying big with you, Lyli. And watching to see what He will do.
Funny, because I have just been reading about Anger recently and know that I struggle with it often. Your post was right on time.