Prayer

Prayer

Some people work out regularly, committed to building up their physical fitness and strength by working on their core through Pilates or lifting weights to strengthen their shoulders. Some of the weights we really have to carry in life, however, are just too heavy for anyone to bear alone.

The good news is that we don’t have to. Prayer is refusing to carry things ourselves. It is the practice of loading the things that are too heavy for us onto the shoulders of Jesus.

When we do, we find that there is no burden, no person, no situation that He wasn’t carrying already.

When we whisper our prayers for the things we carry – if we listen closely enough – we hear back the whisper that He has been praying for them already.

Don’t bear your own burdens alone, or those of others. Pray for them by loading them onto Jesus. And listen in to what He is already praying for.

Once you have given your burden to Jesus, that’s it. It becomes His, not yours. Don’t keep going back over it in your mind. Leave it with Him, and see what happens.

 

Contacts

Linda Ainsworth email: laainsworth@hotmail.co.uk

Parish Office: 01200 422828