Beginning The Week With Prayer.

I am a very busy mother. However, as Martin Luther once said, "I am too busy not to pray." That's the attitude I want to cultivate this week.

I know when I have allowed the world's busyness to invade my heart. It's when I begin to worry, to try and fix everything myself, to do it all.

I need less worry and more prayer. Mostly, I need to rest and humbly work in the yoke Jesus has given me. Last week, I read a chapter of Andrew Murray's "Abide in Christ." Here's a passage I underlined. I am clinging to it this week and I hope it encourages you as well:

"The soul has but to yield itself to Him, to be still and rest in the confidence that His love has undertaken, and that His faithfulness will perform...it is because the blessing is so great that our little hearts cannot rise to apprehend it; it is as if we cannot believe that Christ, the Almighty One, will in very deed teach and keep us all the day.  It is not the yoke, but the resistance to the yoke, that makes the difficulty; the whole-hearted surrender to Jesus, as at once our Master and our Keeper, finds and secures the rest." --p.21,22

 

Comments

[michelle]

Thank you Elizabeth. These words are exactly what I need this week.

I found your blog through my friend Chelle and I simply love your writing.

[Heidi Jo]

begin it and end it...best way, with prayer.

[Leanne Gilchrist]

Wow.

That's deep. I loved the part where it said "It is not the yoke, but the resistance to the yoke, that makes the difficulty."

Thank you for sharing that word with us.

My task, always, is praying without ceasing....arrow prayers, big prayers, out loud prayers, silent prayers. I want to be constantly giving it all to God and talking to Him about all that's in my heart.

May our Jesus grant you everything you need to live in the place He wants you to live, inside your heart.

Leanne

[tiffany]

I find that my mind becomes less preoccupied and less busy when I am in a mindset of prayer! He brings peace to the busiest of days. And He orders my steps as He promised. What an awesome God we serve!