Prayers . . . on living successfully

HELP ME ORGANIZE MY BUSY-NESS

O Gracious Father, when I ask you to reveal what keeps me from growing in you, you point to my busyness.  I know I take on too much, but whenever someone calls me to volunteer I feel responsible to help.  Isn't a Christian supposed to meet needs?

I know you planned my life before I was born; you wrote out all my good works.  Show me how to recognize the tasks you created for me.  Teach me when a need is not my call.  Help me to make you Lord of my days so that, with your guidance, I can do the things you've designed for me, rather than rushing through activities someone else chose, O Lord, you didn't expect Elijah to fill every need in Israel when famine swept the land; you know I have to choose from among the many demands and opportunities before me.

Make me determine to set aside a special time each day to read your Word, to talk to you, and then listen.  Teach me to respond to the prompting of your Holy Spirit so that I don't step off the path, but instead go where you lead and do your bidding.

Keep me from jamming my life so full I push you out.  Help me to make time to sit at your feet and learn from you.  Tell me when to say no.  Then when the answer is yes, fill me with your power.  I ask these things in Jesus' name.  

Amen

Jesus said, "I assure you that

there were many widows in Israel in Elijah's time . . .

Yet Elijah was not sent to any of them,

but to a widow in Zarephath in the region of Sidon."

Luke 4:25-26

Date this page was last edited:  July 24, 2004