Prov 3:5 says "Trust in the Lord with all you heart and do not lean on your own understanding."

Thanks, my loving and sovereign God, that my failures and mistakes are part of the "all things" You work together for good...as well as my tensions, stresses, my hostile and anxious feelings, my failures and regrets. Often I take these trips into feeling overwhelmed and self blame. Ever go there? It's pretty dark and lonely. When my heart is overwhelmed, I'm aware of my need to cry to God...to take refuge in Him...to rely on Him...not MYSELF.

May God prompt my very soul to rejoice and depend! God has the ability to overrule my anxious thoughts. He is sufficient...with His presence...

I want to shout to God and yell it from my chair that I'm sitting here writing to you from, that we can thank God for the shortcomings and failures that bring pressure on us. They can open us more fully to our Savior's unchanging love and total cleansing!

my prayer today: I praise You my God for how you use my sins and failures to humble me, and for how this opens me to the inflow or Your grace- amazing grace, that enables me to hold my head high, not in pride, but in humble gratitude for Your undeserved, unchanging love and total cleansing!!!

woo hoo! God is awesome when you let Him in and actually listen to His gentle, urging voice!