For Those Who Are Overwhelmed
Your Nightly Prayer for Apr. 9, 2025
by Michelle Treacy
TONIGHT’S SCRIPTURE
"From the end of the earth, I will cry to You, When my heart is overwhelmed; lead me to the rock that is higher than I." - Psalm 61:2 (NKJV)
SOMETHING TO PONDER
This verse is by far one of my absolute favourite bible verses. If you’ve known me a long time or read much of my musings you will know I say that a lot. But this verse is one that is personal for me. In my days as a new mother, even now 15 years in, I have found my self in some very overwhelming days. I pray this verse a lot.
One example of when I pray this verse is when the house is in melt down mode. As the mother of three children who all have sensory needs, our home life can be a little precarious. We are always simply waiting on the next dysregulated moment. It isn’t easy, but I wouldn’t change my children for the world. How they see life is so very different than how it is usually seen, and they teach me daily.
But I wont lie, it is hard going, and sometimes I just don’t know how to make the situation better for them. It is here, in that overwhelm that I am praying this verse to the Lord. It is in these moments that I am quietly praying, “Holy Spirit, my heart is overwhelmed, lead me to you, my rock, lead me to the one who is higher than I!”
It is in these moments I am leaning into Christ and living in the grace that He provides me each and every day. Maybe you have a circumstance in your life that causes you to feel overwhelmed daily, or often? Friend, if there was one verse I could tell you to memorise it is this one and pray it often!
When David is writing these words, he was asking the Lord to place him on a high rock of security, somewhere he could never climb to or get to by himself. He was asking the Lord to act in his divinity and to help David. But David was also recognising that in his overwhelm the only place he needed to be was in God, because there in Him we have all we need.
So, I wonder, do we need to ask the Lord to act in his Divinity to help us? Do we need to recognise that it is in God we have all we need. Do we need to allow our overwhelm to send us closer to God rather than further away?
YOUR NIGHTLY PRAYER
Father God,
When my mind becomes overwhelmed with my to do list, my not done list, or the circumstances I face around me, would you in your grace remind me to run to you. To turn my eyes and my heart heaven ward and lean into your knowledge, your mercy and your grace for me. Help me to live in your presence and see the world through holy eyes.
Holy Spirit, nudge my heart. When overwhelm has left me far from God and bring me home.
In Jesus name
Amen.
THREE THINGS TO MEDITATE UPON
1. Let's ask ourselves what our focus is when we are in overwhelm. Do we look to God, or are we so focused on the situation we face that we forget about him entirely?
2. Let's focus on the one true God, who loves us, who is our rock and a steadfast place in which we can put our hope!
3. Lastly, let's remember that He is higher than I. That God is the omniscient one who knows the end from the beginning, and He is working all things out.
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