“I am praying to you because I know you will answer, O God.” (Psalm 17:6 NLT)
Making yeast bread from scratch takes a lot of effort--measuring, mixing, kneading, waiting for the dough to rise, shaping the dough, waiting some more, baking, and cleaning up the mess--the process is time consuming. The best part of bread making is after all the working and waiting is over, when you get to taste the bread. When you first start baking bread, you aren’t sure how it will turn out. It’s easy to get caught up in the labor and the mess instead of focusing on the results.
Prayer is a lot like baking bread. It requires work and waiting. If you get bogged down by the initial process, it can be disconcerting. Most of us get mired in our problems when praying. We repeatedly present our worries, frustrations, and fears to God. We get tired and discouraged in the waiting. We get stuck in the worry phase, kneading and pounding, instead of focusing on the end product.
There is a better way: Pray for the solution instead of the problem. Be confident in the Lord. Trust Him. Look forward to the taste and feel of what He is about to do. Be thankful in advance. Believe that God is able, through His mighty power at work within us, to accomplish infinitely more than we might ask or imagine.
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