Prayer for God's Best

There are few different blog posts I hope to share in the next few days, but there is one simple one that has been on my heart.

I hope to keep this short and sweet—I say hope because you never know with me and my long-winded self if it actually will be “short and sweet” by the time I’m done.

Over the last few weeks there has been this one prayer on my heart for many of my friends.  God’s Best.

I’ve heard that phrase said, and I’ve even said it myself, but there are moment when I look at different friends situations or circumstances, choices their making that I have no control over, and my heart is heavy.

Like most people you want to see your friends walking in God’s will—you want to see them walking in their callings and living in the center of God’s will and specifically God’s will for their life. So, there are times over the last few weeks that my heart has been heavy and all I can muster up to say in prayer is, “Lord, I pray your best over (fill in the blank).”

The more I simple said those words over and over again my mind began to wrap around what my spirit and heart were praying. The cry of my heart was God’s Best. Not, their idea of God’s Best, NOT other peoples idea of God’s Best, but truly resting in the fact that God’s Best is anything that makes us for like Jesus. At the end of the day that’s the goal—to be made more like Christ. So, if that’s the overarching theme/goal then that means God’s Best is/are things and people who guided us closer to God. That doesn’t mean easy, there are seasons that in the moment didn’t feel like God’s Best but the result of going through that season was a refining that chipped away at pieces of me that did not look like Jesus.

Sometimes the hard times are just as much God’s Best as the seasons or moment that seen obviously God’s Best for us.

Not only am I still praying God’s Best of over some friends and situations, but having to trust God that He knows the situations. He knows the hearts of those involved. He’s not blind to what is going on. Honestly, I cannot count how many times that truth has given me such peace when it comes to people, their choices, and situations. Sometimes I just don’t understand, or don’t have all the answers but then I am reminded that God knows every single detail of the problem I’m “worried” about or praying about. The person or persons I/we pray for…God knows their hearts and minds more intimately than we could ever imagine. We can release the situations (the people involved) to God.  Trusting that whatever happens, God is in control.

So I don’t know, if you are like me, and have just a few or many friends or situations going on that you don’t fully understand or know what to pray, maybe pray this prayer along with me, “Lord, I pray your best over them. Whatever that looks like, I/we trust you.” In Jesus Name, Amen!