Turn Your Cares Into Prayers

Philippians 4:6

6Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

Beloved, God doesn’t want you to be fearful, fretful or anxious. Instead, God wants you to “be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God ”.
So when you have a care or a worry, straightaway turn that care or worry into prayer. That’s supplication. And when you are troubled by a care or worry that you don’t know how to pray for, pray in the Spirit. And in the midst of that care or worry, thank God that He is already your healing, provision, prosperity, good success and victory. That, my friend, is thanksgiving.
“Pastor Prince, if I am worried about something, how long do I pray?”
Keep on praying, and pray in the Spirit until the care lifts, the worry dissipates “and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus”. (Philippians 4:7)
This was what one of our church members did when he found himself anxiously trying to access his thumb drive to retrieve some important data. After a whole day at it with no results, he finally stopped himself from being anxious and instead turned his worry into prayer, asking the Lord to settle it for him. And as he prayed in tongues, he was thankfully repeating in his heart that having the Holy Spirit, the Helper, with him was to his advantage. (John 16:7)
Later that evening, using his wife’s computer, he succeeded in accessing the thumb drive after a few attempts. He quickly backed up all the data in the thumb drive. It was only when subsequent attempts to use the thumb drive on his wife’s computer failed did it suddenly dawn on him that God had resurrected his thumb drive from the dead that one time, just for him to recover all his data!
I believe we would worry a lot less and enjoy our lives a lot more if only we realise this truth: Our Abba Father is so strong that there is nothing He cannot do, and He is so loving that there is nothing He will not do for us!