Be Anxious For Nothing (John Wimber)

Be Anxious For Nothing

“The Lord cares about your most anxious prayers, just like a father cares about his child’s 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, what’s going to happen? The heat’s 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, you’re still in it and it’s going to boil again. That’s why Paul picks up this theme in Philippians 4:6, where he says, “Do not be anxious about anything…” What he says there is really better translated, “When you are overwhelmed with anxiety, and circumstances are so dire and so difficult in your life that they’re causing this overwhelming anxiety to rise, pray to God.” That means when the pot’s boiling over, come and talk again.”

John Wimber, Prayer: Intimate Communication (Anaheim: Vineyard Ministries International, 1997), 19.

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