Come Up Here: A Symphony of Prayer | A 5 Day Prayer Journey With Darlene Zschechናሙና

In talking to my mum recently, we discussed parenting challenges. She threw her arms into the air and said, “It has not always been easy, but I have had to learn to pray, learn to let go, and learn to trust God with my children.”

There is something pretty significant about a particular part of our lives which I call our “trust” life—praying and believing, praying and letting go, praying and leaving the concern with the Lord. It’s good to remember we are praying to a God who knows every need we have and empowers us with His Spirit to give our inner man grace and strength for the journey. Making the worship of Jesus and our intimate life with Him the highest priority is the sustainable fuel we need to live truly.

We cannot be with our kids all the time, as much as we all want to cherish every moment and wrap them in cotton wool so no harm will come to them. Life is a journey of building Godly character into the fiber of who we are and into the fiber of our children and trusting them into His hands every day.

There are prayers you can pray over your family simply by reading the Psalms out loud, the prayers and the praises of the saints. Psalm 121 is a great one to pray over your family today.

Revelation 5 describes this scene in heaven: Elders, each of them with a harp (depicting worship) and holding golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of God’s people. I love this scene as prayer and worship come before God, and songs are sung throughout heaven declaring His majesty and reign, declaring that Jesus has already won the victory.

What do you do when you have prayed, believed and believed, and fasted and trusted, and the worst-case scenario still happens? It’s happened in my life many times. Sometimes I have prayed, and miracles have happened; other times, what I wanted to see work out did not come to pass the way I believed it should. Do we turn away from God? Stop believing? No. I believe in God's sovereignty and love for me, even though I don't understand many things in this life. I am also grateful this world is not the final goal.

I’ve been reading Elizabeth Elliot's books for many years now, and this quote from her gets me every time:

"This hard place in which you perhaps find yourself is the very place in which God is giving you opportunity to look only to Him, to spend time in prayer, and to learn long-suffering, gentleness, meekness - in short, to learn the depths of the love that Christ Himself has poured out on all of us." - Elisabeth Elliot

TRUST. It’s a verb.

Love Darls