Prayer for When You Need Help

I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills. That's where I am right now. Looking up. Looking outward. Looking for something bigger than what I'm stuck in.

I need help. Just like that. Three words. I need help. Not advice. Not information. Not someone to tell me it could be worse. Help. The kind that actually changes things.

From whence cometh my help? I've tried everything else. I've tried working harder. I've tried worrying it into a solution. I've tried pretending it wasn't that bad. None of it worked. It never works. My help cometh from the Lord. Which made the heavens and the earth. The one who made everything. Including this situation. Including me. Knows exactly what's needed here. And he's not withholding it.

So I'm asking, Lord. Specifically. Clearly. I need help with what's in front of me. You know what it is. You knew this morning when I woke up anxious. You knew last night when I couldn't sleep. Please help me. You have been the answer to this question since the beginning. Psalm 121 says He will not suffer thy foot to be moved. He that keepeth thee will not slumber. You don't sleep. You don't take breaks. You don't miss things. While I was sleeping last night worried about today, you were already here in today waiting for me to arrive.

The Lord is thy keeper. Keeper. Not observer. Not scorekeeper. Keeper. The one who keeps watch. The one who doesn't let things slip through. What you keep, stays kept.

The Lord shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in. Every door I walk through today. Every conversation. Every place I go that I'm nervous about. You're already there. You'll be there when I arrive. You'll be there when I leave.

Let me receive that today, Lord. Not just know it in my head. Let it reach the part of me that's still afraid. The part that keeps trying to handle everything myself. Keep me today. I trust you with that.

In the name of Jesus, I pray.

Amen.