Never Quit Praying

          Giveyour burdens to the Lord. He will carry them. He will not permit the godly toslip or fall. (Psalm 55:22, Living Bible)

Every night, after going to bed and turning out thelights, I start my nightly prayers – thanking God for all He has done for me,praying for forgiveness for the many transgressions I commit every day, andasking God to grant a long list of favors. Most recently pleading with Him totake away my back pain, but also that my children figure out their lives, thatmy cat doesn’t have any more seizures, that adequate rain falls, that myhusband doesn’t get bored not working over the summer, that there is peace onearth, and that millions of non-believers turn their lives over to Jesus Christ.

So I pray all these things (and more), and I pictureGod holding out a huge silver platter, nodding and saying, “Offer up all yourprayers, place them all on this platter, turn them over to Me.”

And I put all those things on the silver platter.

The next night, in bed again, I start saying myprayers. God shows up, and He’s still carrying that giant platter.And it’s still full of all of the prayers from the night before.

So, I ask Him, “Why are all my prayers still there?Aren’t You at least working on answering them?”

He nods and tells me to just keep praying, keepputting all my requests on the platter.

And I don’t know what to say; I just give Him thislook like, “What? Why should I keep praying for this same stuff if You aren’tgoing to take care of it?”

He nods again and says, “Trust Me. I got this.”

And so it goes, night after night, until I have an epiphany. 

Yes, I keep prayingand I know that God is taking all of my requests seriously. And I also knowthat He can carry that platter no matter how full it is, how heavy all of myprayers are.

I can’t carry it; I can’t even pick it up. I need tokeep the faith and trust God in all things. He will always be stronger than me.And He knows how best to answer each and every one of my prayers and when.

Thank You, Lord, God, for always carryingevery one of my burdens. Amen

(And the picture is of the largest platter that I have,not that this post has anything to do with Thanksgiving. Except, I guess itdoes. We need to give thanks every day, not just once a year.)