O YHWH Jireh, God who Provides,
How often we fail to think of you when we face difficulties and concerns. We think, we worry, we fret, we mull over and over in our minds how we are going to deal with a trial we are facing or concerns about things that might happen. And yet we are told that you, the creator of all that is, are near to us. And that you are near to us as a parent is to a child. And that because of that, we simply should not be anxious.
I pray first of all for those who are raising these children and for those of us who a trying to live out our lives as examples to these children. Give us a greater since of your presence. Show us more and more your glory so that our courage is increased such that we live as examples of people who are not anxious, but trust. And that by our calm and trusting lives, we pattern behavior that these children can follow.
I pray then for these children. That you will constantly show yourself to them such that they have a deep sense of your nearness. That they become people who truly walk with you moment by moment and that by that they do not have anxious hearts and that their peaceful confidence is evident to all around them. And that thereby they will pass on that spirit to their children and will draw others to you by reflecting a life that can only come through you and through your presence.
Amen
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