Prayer #2

Dear Heavenly Father,

I'm feeling lazy and I need Your mercy, God. Please help! I want to remember this truth, LORD God, and be a living example of it:

"But blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD,
whose confidence is in Him.
He will be like a tree planted by water
that sends out its roots by the stream.
It does not fear when heat comes;
its leaves are always green.
It has no worries in a year of drought
and never fails to bear fruit." (Jeremiah 17:7-8)

Thank You, LORD, for Your Holy Spirit and for comforting me, counseling me, and convicting me in times where I need it the most. This weekend has been a beautiful time of rest. It has not been easy...to stay in that rest...but I ask that You would bring fruit from it and help me to see and carry out practical ways where I can trust You. You say that Your yoke is easy and Your burden, light. I long to take that yoke upon me, though it cost me my pride. It's more than worth it! Help me to be diligent to carry out Your work with fear and trembling for it is You who is working in me both to will and to work for Your good pleasure.

In Jesus' name, amen.