Asking God For All Our Needs

Aren’t you glad we can call on God for all our needs – the ones we recognize and the many that we don’t.  God is ready to meet with us every day and do good things in our lives as we turn them over to His care.

O Lord, you are so good, so ready to forgive, so full of unfailing love for all who ask for your help.  Listen closely to my prayer, O Lord; hear my urgent cry.  I will call to you whenever I’m in trouble,

and you will answer me.  Psalm 86:5-7

The writer of those words asks for God’s help because God is good.  He asks for God’s help because he knows he needs help.  He knows that God has unfailing love and help for all who will simply ask for it.

Well, who of us today needs another experience of the goodness of God and an expression of His help?  The longer the pandemic continues and takes it’s twists and turns the more we need God’s unfailing love and help.  It is ours once again if we will simply ask for it.  So let’s do that again today.

Heavenly Father,  You are a God who loves to help us.  In troubled times we sometimes struggle and in our panic and fear – or because we are busy trying to fix things on our own – we don’t think to ask You for help.  Sometimes we don’t ask because we think we are better at fixing things than You are.  Sometimes we don’t like Your solutions and so we prefer to stay in our own stubborn self-will even though it’s uncomfortable.

Thank You for your promise to give grace to us when we humble ourselves, admitting our need for help and trusting in Your might power to work on our behalf, and Your willingness to do what’s right in the right time. We give over our worries and cares to You God and trust that You care for each and every thing that is troubling and causing us concern today. 

The LORD will complete what his purpose is for me. LORD, your gracious love is eternal; do not abandon your personal work in me. 

Psalm 138:8

We ask for Your guidance and help in all our affairs.  We trust You to complete the good work that You have begun in us as You help us fulfill Your loving purposes. 

God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”  So humble yourselves under the mighty power of God, and at the right time he will lift you up in honor.  Give all your worries and cares to God, for he cares about you.  1 Peter 5:5-7

Your forgiveness is promised for every wrong when we repent of where we’ve gone wrong and turn to You and then You pour strength into us as we seek to walk in Your ways again.  So, that’s what we are doing once again.  Forgive us for going our own way and doing our own thing.  Help us to turn around, to seek You with our whole heart and to follow You in all we do.

Thank You that You will not abandon us but will build with us on all that’s already been begun in our hearts and circumstances.  We look forward to this day with You.  Amen