A Prayer for a Steadfast Spirit
By Christine Perry
“Create in me a clear coronary heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit inside me.” Psalms 51:10 NKJV
We live throughout a time that has been outlined as “The Nice Resignation.” Silent quitting is turning into the norm. But, this isn’t simply taking place in jobs. It has change into the norm in our society as a complete. This development has additionally trickled into different believers’ lives and our very personal. When you cease and go searching, you will notice indicators of silent quitting in {our relationships}, church attendance, and our Bible studying and praying.
Please perceive my coronary heart as I write this. I’m not penning this to criticize you. I’m penning this as a result of I’ve needed to ask God, as David did in Psalm 51:10, to resume a steadfast spirit in me. I keep in mind going by a season not too way back the place there have been numerous adjustments and uncertainty happening the place I labored. A number of higher-ups had resigned. I had been frantically looking for one other job earlier than that occurred. I had a number of job interviews and leads, but all of them got here to nothing. I keep in mind praying and asking God why He saved closing doorways. Whereas I didn’t hear God audibly, I had thought that saved coming to me that God was making an attempt to show me to be regular.
It was powerful as a result of the whole lot in me wished to go away. I ask God for the power to remain. God did numerous work in my coronary heart throughout that point and the hearts of others that I labored alongside. There had been numerous misunderstanding and harm that came about beforehand. So, when these two higher-ups resigned, it allowed for therapeutic to happen that would not have been there had it not compelled the administration and the administration workforce, which included me, to work collectively. Relationships have been mended, and a brand new appreciation was fashioned. By the point I did depart, I had the total help of everybody.
Currently, I’ve been grateful for the stability the Lord taught me in that earlier season as a result of I’ve needed to ask for steadiness in one other space of my life. I’ve gone again to this verse so many occasions. I all the time need to ask God to create a clear coronary heart in me first as a result of, as Jeremiah says in 17:9, “The center is deceitful above all issues, and desperately depraved; Who can comprehend it?”
It may be straightforward to take a look at the scenario and complain concerning the adjustments you need to see as an alternative of praying that God adjustments you to deal with the conditions He has allowed you to expertise. As Elisabeth Elliot so veraciously mentioned, “The key is Christ in me, not me in a special set of circumstances.”
Let’s pray:
Expensive Heavenly Father,
Thank You for Your persistence with us. Thank You that steadfast love by no means ceases and that your mercies by no means come to an finish. Lord, we are able to develop weary so rapidly. Our hearts are liable to wander and our minds neglect Your guarantees. Lord, I ask that You’ll create in me a clear coronary heart and that You’ll additionally renew a steadfast spirit inside me. I pray that You’ll do the identical for these studying this prayer at present.
Father, I ask that You assist us to be trustworthy, diligent, and steadfast in all of the tasks and relationships You might have given us. We all know that the whole lot is a present from Your hand. I ask that You additionally assist us have a coronary heart of gratitude as You assist us stay regular. I pray that our eyes shall be fastened on You and never what we could also be strolling by. Lord, please maintain us quick. Assist strengthen our knees and our fingers and assist us be helpful vessels to your honor and use.
Lord, please assist us to rely on You for all we’d like. You say that You’re our Shepherd, so we have now all we’d like. Assist us to not neglect that. Thanks for loving us, and I pray that You’ll assist us to like you and people you like higher and extra every day.
In Jesus’ title, Amen
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Christine is only a girl who was given the present of being raised in an unimaginable household. For causes unknown to her, God has blessed her with an incredible life full of gorgeous friendships, outstanding experiences, and a love from Him that’s utterly underserved. She needs to encourage others and share hope as we journey by the highs and lows of life. Christine is the creator of How I Met Peace and For the Weary Life Traveler, a 31-day devotional. Try extra of Christine’s work at her web site: Studying to be fearless and her Patreon.
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