When I ask God to teach me to do His will and lead me by His spirit, I’m also subtly gaining ground against the darkness. Each step of my obedience thwarts the enemy. Not only is God relieving my angst, but He’s also giving me something to do about it.

If we’re honest, we pray maybe two or three times and then we try to manipulate the situation ourselves, or we pray and then we run 1 million scenarios in our head of how it could go wrong, or we pray not believing at all that God will actually do anything but because we think we’re supposed to.

Do you ever get lost in the volume of information we take in daily? I think this information overload can even invade my Bible reading. I need to just slow down. Taking in the Bible isn’t a race.

God loves me. He wants me. God loves you. He wants you. He loved me when I was still in my sin, and He loves me today when I still fall short. He is God, I refuse to define Him by the expectations that I have for people.