Flip The Peephole!

Good morning, my friend!  Good morning, Father!

“Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.” - Matthew 6:34

Lord, anxiety is a common struggle.  We look at circumstances and don’t see a way out.  We consider the future and feel a heavy weight.  We can’t see what the future holds, but we sit for the second and third showing of the terrifying movie that plays in our heads - the possible scenarios for how things will play out.  Interestingly, the movie in our heads rarely has a happy ending.  We convince ourselves that it is okay to mull these negative things over for hours on end, feeling somehow that it is responsible to do so.  In actuality, we have no clue how things will play out.  We are pre-visiting a traumatizing situation that may or may not ever come, without the grace You will provide at the time of actual need.

Lord, You remind me that, “without faith it is impossible to please God” - Hebrews 11:6a (NIV), and “everything that does not come from faith is sin.” - Romans 14:23b (NIV)

So, once again it comes down to what we truly believe about who You are.  We want to please You.  Help us with our unbelief.  We thank You for the blood of Jesus by which every sin and every viewing of the fictional horror movie in our heads are expunged.  We thank You for Your compassion and for remembering how we are made.  Help us to do better.  Help our focus and thoughts to be set aright as the psalmist penned, “I keep my eyes always on the LORD. With him at my right hand, I will not be shaken.” - Psalm 16:8 (NIV)

Lord, I lift my friend before You.   Gently lift their chin and draw their eyes away from those things that instill fear, and toward Your face.  Help them to fix their gaze on their sure salvation instead of on shifting shadows and the imagined specters that haunt their imagination.  Draw them into Your presence and feed them of Your truths.  Cause Your Word to come to mind to fight the tormenting lies of the enemy.  

In meditating on Your Word, may they magnify You, Lord, and see things in their proper perspective.  Flip the peepholes through  which they see You and their circumstances. Aright the lenses to reveal You as the God who moves mountains and holds the Earth in His hands, and reveal their troubles as the specks of dust they are.  Strengthen them to attach themselves firmly to the cross.  Cover them in the shadow of Your wings.  In this moment, give them Your peace.  Fortify their trust that Your grace will be available the precise moment the need arises, but not a moment before.  Help them to be a faithful steward over all they have been entrusted with, and be able to rest in Your faithfulness to meet any lack.  Be with them.  Help them to take control of their anxious thoughts, “For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ.’’ (2 Corinthians 10:4-5). We ask for a day of victory over insubordinate thoughts - for their blessing and Your glory!  In Jesus Name ❤️

Dear friend, do your problems seem to be huge while your God seems small and far away?  If so, the enemy has flipped the lens in the peephole through which you see the world.  The truth is that Your God can move mountains.  He holds the Universe and everything in it in the palm of His hand.  Come before the Father.  Ask Him to flip the lens in your peephole, so you can see things in right perspective.  Then stop telling God how big your problem is, and start telling your problems how big your God is!  Keep your eyes on our big God.  💡