Answered prayers

We have been having a hard go of it lately.   In one of the previous posts, I talked about starting something new and the devil attacked.  He started nit-picking at first and moved on to bigger things from there.  For the past little while I have been trying to keep my head afloat, to keep the kids somewhat civil, to take one problem at a time and to fight my own battles.  

As some of you know, that does not work and I quickly became overcome by the weight of all of the difficulties that we were facing.  Parental, financial, relational, and work related, I was buckling  under the pressure leading to my short temper and explosive ideas and words in my head.  It was not a good place to be.  I think that most of us has been in a similar type of situation before.  

What I was trying to do to fix these situations and problems was not working.  No man is an island and we are not meant to walk this world alone, so when I opened up to my wonderful wife about these issues and shared my feelings I started to feel better. She has a great listening ear, but our  real help comes from the Lord.  Over the past few days He has sent people to help us in almost all of the ways that we need.  From a place for our daughter to go to get help to yesterday a check coming into our account 3 days early.  He is taking care of us and He is showing us His love in very obvious ways.  

I have a prayer journal that after my bible time in the morning I write down a prayer that is on my heart.  Yesterday morning it was for God to help us.  I confessed my own selfishness, thinking that I could handle this on my own.  I asked for increased faith, and I asked for a way out of this hole that we were in.  Yesterday afternoon, God showed up in a big way.  

This morning, as I was flipping through my bible looking for my bookmark I came across Psalm 120:1.  The verse in the picture above.  It says, "I took my troubles to the Lord; I cried out to Him, and He answered my prayers."  I have that verse highlighted, underlined and starred.  There is no telling how many times I have read it, heard it preached, or seen it on a poster, coffee mug or card.  But today it was a fresh smack on the back of my head.  Gibbs style.  (We are NCIS junkies).  

We need to take our problems, cares and worries to the Lord.  As 1 Peter 5:7 states, "Cast all your cares on the Lord, for He cares for you".  He does.  He wants to be allowed to handle them.  

Whatever you are going though right now, God has the shoulders big enough to take them.  He loves taking care of His children.