Awesome
- Cheri Wingert
- Aug 28, 2023
- 3 min read
God, you are more than we could have ever imagined. You pulled us out of darkness into your marvelous light. You set us free from strongholds and dominions of darkness. You seated us in heavenly places. You pray for us and fight for us, and you haven’t lost a battle. And we trust you.
We know you have this. Just like you had the former things. Just like you have the people that have been used for good or not. Just like you have the people you planned and orchestrated to do the very things you planned long ago. You let the things that seemed like losses become the events that set your people free.
Thank you for seeing us and hearing us. Help us not to rely on earthly things or people ever more than we trust in you. Thank you for reminding us to treasure all these things in our hearts. You are working even when we don’t see it. All of this is a spiritual battle, drawing us all closer to you.
We acknowledge that you are in control, and we worship you for having this all in your hands. We surrender to you. It is not ours to try to make anything happen our way. Forgive us for when we have done this. Humble us again to come and give everything and everyone to you. You’re all we are looking for.
You’re the One that holds us. And you hold our children. Our Maker, we were meant to love you and loving you is what we do best when we answer your call to love, simply love. We love those who are not loving. We love those that don’t know you yet. We love everyone in the way that you call us to love them. We listen to you and stay steadfast, holding strong to you. We demolish every argument that sets itself up against you, with you.
The weapons we fight with are spiritual and from you, they are not the weapons of the world. We won’t be easily influenced by the world but will hold your light up like a saving beacon. We will take captive every thought to make it obedient to you. We will choose you. Thank you for choosing us. Thank you for calling us while we were steeped in sin. Thank you for loving us and redeeming us, restoring us from broken vessels to jars of clay useful for you.
Thank you for making us useful and lifting us up. We won’t stay down, defeated, or oppressed. We will lift our countenance to gaze upon you. You are lovely. We will fix our minds on you and all that is wonderful and true. We will honor you and choose to be different, reflecting your likeness. We won’t seek human approval or man’s empty praise, and we won’t offer it either. We will praise you and pray for all our fellow people struggling with offering and needing such encouragement from people, when we have all the help we need from you.
Teach us not to rely on earthly things or circumstances to feel like we’re okay, but to know that you are holding us and our children, and that means we’re always okay, no matter what. You have us. You have this. The truth will be known, found out and exposed. We will be found in you. No one will be tricking your people. Your people will be free, forever.
We have your hope as an anchor for our souls. So we needn’t try to hold on with such a grip like we have to hold it all together, when you are. You calm the storms. You’ve calmed this storm. You will have the final say in all things. You will protect the children. You will hold them. You are holding them and you have set them free. They will leap like the deer and they will have a voice and sing for joy. You are worthy. You have always been and you always will be.
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