PRAYER OF RELEASE
I know the one in whom I trust, and I am sure that He is able to guard what I have entrusted to Him until the day of his return.
2 Timothy 1:12 NLT
Heavenly Father, I release to you the burdens that I have been carrying, burdens that You never intended for me to carry. I cast all my cares upon You-all my worries, all my fears.
Father, calm my restless spirit, quiet my anxious heart, stills my troubling thoughts with the assurance that You are in control. I let go of my grip upon the things I have been hanging onto, with opened hands I come to You.
I thank You for Your promise to sustain me, preserve me, and guard all that I have entrusted to Your keeping. Protect my heart and mind with Your peace, the peace that passes all understanding. Father, may Your will be done in my life, in Your time, and in Your way.
By Roy Lessin,
DaySpring co-founder and writer.
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Yes, it is the Lord that I shall release my burdens to, sadly and unfortunately, as
ReplyDeletePsalm 25:1-3 puts
"It is better to take refuge in the Lord
than to trust in people."
From my own past experience, I have tried sharing burdens with certain individuals I thought I could trust without realizing when you confide in someone your secret pains and sufferings deep down in your heart, your secret pain and sufferings would multiply tenfold as your perceived trusted brothers/sisters in His name go spread your pains and sufferings around by spreading their new found news to other people. So, my pains, my sufferings are too much for the others to take so he/she chose selfishly to lessen it by telling other people without respect to my privacy without care to my fragile spirit and feelings. Well, imagine how massive and difficult it is for me to bear them. Sharing them with people, from experience, does not reduce but only increase the ordeal. Why would I want to tell one person out of so many about my personal pain and suffering? If I wanted B to know about it, I would have told B myself. If I wanted C and D to know about it, I would have told C and D myself. If I want the world to know about them, I might as well tell the whole world about them myself from my own mouth in my own words, wouldn't it? How scary it is to share in a big group with the fear of snowballing the effects?