Whom shall I fear - Practical Excerpts for the Prayer of learning and Prayer

Learn to evaluate your interpretations and conclusions of your circumstances and situations in the presence of the Lord. Allow the Lord to renew your mind of all intimidation, exaggeration and amplification, all the wrong or subjective interpretations, and from all the negative expectations and assumptions.

Do not let your prayers be opening of the mouth only, but learn also to open the ear. Allow the voice of the Lord to correct your perceptions and change your interpretations and modify your requests and rectify your decisions.

Be filled with the Word of God, meditate on it (repeating it in the heart), for it is the source of divine education for you. “One who turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayers are detestable” (Proverbs 28:9). It also says of the Word, “When you walk, they will guide you; when you sleep, they will watch over you; when you awake, they will speak to you” (Proverbs 6: 22).

When the Lord reveals to you error in your thinking, do not argue and don’t be stubborn, but learn obedience, and humbly accept His teaching and guidance.

Ask the Lord to guide you. And ask him what to do in all the circumstances of your life. And “Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding” (Proverbs 3: 5).

Every day dispose of a wrong idea and false illusion and fictitious fear, and bind every thought captive to the obedience of Christ. Demolish the strongholds and imaginations of fear.

Expect that the Lord’s answer to give you His peace may not be to change your circumstances, but to change your thinking in your circumstances.

Know, full well, that all things work together for good to those who love God. If you see things against you now, trust that it will inevitably work out for your good.

While not may not understand what the Lord is doing with you, do not be discouraged, but surrender and trust that one day you will understand.

Trust that God has wonderful and diverse ways to care for you. Do not limit your thinking to only one way, and then be discouraged when it doesn’t work out. The Lord is able to make even the crows provide for you!

Prayer

O Lord, teach me Your way, Your will and Your desire.
When my thoughts waver at the crossroads, and I do not know what to do, let my eyes turn to You.

O Lord, protect me from my subjective interpretations and my confusing conjectures, which often bring fear to my self and sadness to my heart.

O Lord, came close to me as You did with the Disciples on the road to Emmaus.
Explain to me the relevant matters of my life with you.
Teach me what you want me to do.
Let me see things from your point of view and not from my point of view.
Let me depend on you with all my heart and not rely on my own understanding.

O Lord, deliver me from my fears by Your truth, and fill me with Your Spirit’s peace.

Magdy Samuel