Dear Lord; Happy Tuesday Father!<\/p>\n
I love when You place things on my heart Lord\u2026 I gain so much perspective from those moments.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n As You know, I\u2019ve been in \u201cworry mode\u201d<\/em> lately Father; worried about the business not doing as well as I\u2019d like, worried about the kids being prepared to go back to school, worried about not having medical insurance at the moment, and worried that all this worrying is getting in the way of my hearing You clearly.\u00a0 And although I\u2019m usually able to squelch those feelings by focusing on the many Blessings in my life, I\u2019ll admit to having allowed those negative emotions to overwhelm me more than once in recent days.\u00a0 This morning was one of those instances.<\/p>\n Thankfully, You decided it was time to get my attention.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Driving to an appointment this morning, my thoughts were churning; systematically cycling through all of the complications the past month had brought.\u00a0 I felt weighted, and edgy, and my temples throbbed in sympathetic rhythm with my pounding chest.\u00a0 I\u2019d almost reached my destination, when You abruptly interrupted my train of thought\u2026<\/p>\n \u201cTurn your worries into prayers.\u201d\u00a0 You whispered.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n \u201cBut I have prayed about them\u2026\u201d<\/em> I thought to myself.\u00a0 \u201cHaven\u2019t I??\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n And then the light bulb went off\u2026 Ouch.<\/p>\n I realized that although I\u2019ve been praying Father, it\u2019s not always been from the right perspective.\u00a0 Instead of first giving You thanks, and then praying for Your direction in fulfilling Your desires for my life, I\u2019ve instead allowed my worries, fears and anxieties to dictate my prayers.\u00a0 I\u2019ve prayed for what I believed<\/span><\/em> would be the best solutions to my problems, when I should have placed these situations fully in Your hands, and listened for Your guidance as to the proper path to take.\u00a0 I was praying for what I wanted to happen<\/span><\/em>, instead of to be a part of what You wanted to happen<\/span><\/em>.<\/p>\n I hadn\u2019t realized I was praying in arrogance Father\u2026\u00a0 Please forgive me.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Heavenly Father, please fill me with Your divine perspective that I may look to Your counsel first, and then act on Your behalf.\u00a0 I\u2019m very much a work in progress Lord, and my deepest desire is to grow closer to You with each passing day.<\/p>\n More of You Father\u2026 Less of me.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n In Jesus\u2019 Name we pray,<\/p>\n Amen.<\/p>\n ~Phather Phil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dear Lord; Happy Tuesday Father! 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As You know, I\u2019ve been in \u201cworry mode\u201d lately Father; worried about the business not doing as well as I\u2019d like, worried about the kids being prepared to go back to school, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1323,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[961,1808,99,1772,168,419,12,516,644,915,143,36,282,259,671,342,173,6,211,619,216,42,656,769,1812,457,21,140,593,916,269,78,682,133,641,1810,203,506,582,1811,81,55,217,205,1807,695,683,732,836,40,226,1753,730,1813,565,816,424,192,1809],"class_list":["post-1322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-emails-to-god","tag-anxieties","tag-arrogance","tag-attention","tag-back-to-school","tag-bless","tag-blessing","tag-blessings","tag-business","tag-counsel","tag-dear-lord","tag-desires","tag-direction","tag-divine","tag-driving","tag-edgy","tag-emotion","tag-father","tag-fear","tag-fears","tag-feeling","tag-feelings","tag-focus","tag-forgive","tag-giving","tag-gods-whispers","tag-grow","tag-guidance","tag-heart","tag-heavenly","tag-heavenly-father","tag-jesus","tag-life","tag-listen","tag-love","tag-medical","tag-medical-insurance","tag-moments","tag-morning","tag-negative","tag-negative-emotions","tag-path","tag-perspective","tag-pray","tag-prayer","tag-praying-in-arrogance","tag-problem","tag-realize","tag-situation","tag-situations","tag-thankful","tag-thanks","tag-the-right-perspective","tag-thoughts","tag-turn-worries-into-prayers","tag-whispered","tag-work-in-progress","tag-worries","tag-worry","tag-worry-mode"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Praying-Hands-Sepia-1-Cropped.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p18mMc-lk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1322"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1325,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322\/revisions\/1325"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}