Be Anxious For Nothing
“The Lord cares about your most anxious prayers, just like a father cares about his childâs anxieties. There are times when my prayers bubble up in desperation like a boiling kettle. I can pull the thing off the fire, cool it down, but if I put it back on the fire again, whatâs going to happen? The heatâs going to cause it to boil again.
Sometimes, the fire of your life will cause you to boil. No matter how many times you take it to God, no matter how many times you take it off the fire, youâre still in it and itâs going to boil again. Thatâs why Paul picks up this theme in Philippians 4:6, where he says, âDo not be anxious about anythingâŠâ What he says there is really better translated, âWhen you are overwhelmed with anxiety, and circumstances are so dire and so difficult in your life that theyâre causing this overwhelming anxiety to rise, pray to God.â That means when the potâs boiling over, come and talk again.”
John Wimber, Prayer: Intimate Communication (Anaheim: Vineyard Ministries International, 1997), 19.
