A prayer to let go.
Lord,
I come to you right now,
Just as I am,
Not with everything figured out,
Not with it all together,
Just me,
Bringing all of this weight that I have been carrying.
You already see it,
Don't you?
You see the tension in my shoulders.
The thoughts that won't quiet down.
The things I keep turning over and over in my mind.
As if somehow worrying long enough will fix them.
So I'm choosing right now to stop trying to carry what was never mine to carry.
Come to me,
All you who are weary and burdened,
And I will give you rest.
Matthew 11 28 Jesus,
I take you up on that invitation today.
I am weary and I am coming.
I release to you the stress that I have been holding on to,
The worry about things I cannot control.
The pressure I put on myself to have all the answers.
I release it.
I let it go.
Not because I have the strength to let go on my own,
But because I trust that your hands are big enough to hold what mine are not.
I release the fear of what might happen,
The anxiety about what others think.
The heaviness of trying to be enough?
Do enough.
Figure it all out i lay it down at your feet lord all of it Cast all your anxiety on Him,
Because He cares for you.
1 Peter 5,
7 You care for me.
Let that sink in for a moment.
Not just the world.
Me.
This moment,
This stress.
This specific thing I have been carrying today.
You care about it because.
.
.
You care about me.
So I breathe in your peace now.
That peace that passes all understanding.
The kind that doesn't make logical sense given my circumstances.
But that guards my heart anyway.
I receive it?
I choose it.
I trust you with everything I just handed over.
Thank you that I don't have to have it all figured out.
Thank you that you are God.
And I don't have to worry.
Thank you that your plans for me are good.
Even when I can't see the path clearly.
I walk forward today lighter than when I came,
Because I walked in with a burden.
And now I'm walking out with you.
In Jesus' name I pray.
Amen.
