I have been praying for years but didn’t realize that I hadn’t fully surrendered my life to God. I gave Him bits and pieces. I also only prayed for the tip of the iceberg of my problems. It wasn’t until I fasted a week ago, that I realized that although I do share some of my troubles with God, I hadn’t been giving Him everything.
I can vent to my sister all the time and give her the details of my struggles, but with God, I’ve always just assumed He knows and often prayed for Him to help see me through the situation. But God revealed to me that He wants me to share with Him the details. He wants me to share every concern and burden of my heart with Him. Even the things and feelings that I’ve been carrying with me for years, but never really dealt with.
I now understand when in church pastors used to say that “we give God some things, but not all things.” But, He cares about all of the things.
How can we expect Him to help us through our situations, bring clarity, healing, and deliverance if we don’t pray about it? If we don’t tell Him what’s on our hearts and confide and trust Him with it?
So that is what I’m now striving to do. Let God in on EVERYTHING.
The negative thoughts I’ve been battling with for years, but never really tried to take captive by the strength of Jesus. The thoughts and lies I’ve entertained and allowed to take root that’s left me anxious, stressed, and depressed. The problems that I’ve allowed to overwhelm me and make so big, as if they’re bigger than God.
I’ve confessed to God that I’ve kept so many things from Him, and I’m asking Him to reveal every area of my life, my thoughts, my heart, that I’ve kept hidden from Him. That I’ve not allowed Him to shine His light on. That I’ve been battling alone when I don’t have to.
We can trust Him with it all. Every detail.
If you’re also guilty of this, I invite you to pray this prayer with me:
Lord, thank you for caring about everything that concerns me, both big and small. I surrender all of my worries, concerns, problems, and troubles to You. I confess that I have not fully surrendered everything to You in the past, and I humbly repent, and lay those things down now. I know that you never intended for me to do life alone. And I know that you have never left me nor forsaken me. Please help me to trust you with everything that concerns me. Every fear, every worry, every insecurity, every stronghold, every lie I’ve believed about myself and my circumstances. Please reveal to me any areas of my life that you’d like for me to surrender to You. Help me to give all of these things to You, and keep them there, and to trust that you’ll bring healing, deliverance, peace, joy, hope, and love, where there was none before. Thank you Lord for loving me the way that You do, In Jesus’ Name I pray. Amen
I pray that as we continue to surrender everything to God on a regular basis, we experience His presence, joy, peace, and love like never before.
