Ask God

The frustration of life, life’s issues, financial issues, uncertainties, and the list goes on, may take a huge toll in your life.  Sometimes you have those moments where you are totally done with everything and just want to walk away. You wish that you had no worries and could live a care free life.  You pray and pray and seek for guidance, and God allows you to feel His peace within the storm. Then there are those times when you need more than peace, and you just want to be held.  You ask God over and over and over again, “Please Lord, all I desire is a HUG.  I need to be held.” 

“For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened” (Matthew 7:8).  At times, the hug you need is around the corner, but you miss out because you have become angry and hold resentment in your heart.  The hug might not be coming from someone you want to hug at that moment in time, but it is sent from the Lord.  That blessed hug would have been so intense that all of your worries would have disappeared.  Now, you step back only to realize,” oh my, what have I done. I just refused what I’ve been asking the Lord to bless me with this whole time.”  Now, sadness sets in your heart since you’ve just pushed away what you’ve been longing for.

Allow the Lord to work in your life and don’t push away what is yours- sit back, analyze and accept it.  Don’t let the worries of life over flow in your inner soul and harden it. Ask and allow yourself to receive.  “If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer” (Matthew 21:22).