A few years back, I read Too Busy Not to Pray by Bill Hybels. If you are anything like me, then you get too busy for just about anything. I constantly need to fight against the busyness of life. I can over commit in a heartbeat and before I know it, my schedule is running me. I have been in that exact place this month. But I have found that when stress is high and I have too much to do and not enough hours to do it in, I need to pray more than I do at slower times.
In the midst of a full life, I found myself calling out in the words of the Psalmist, “Give ear, O Lord, to my prayer; listen to my plea for grace” (Psalm 86:6) I need to rest in the Lord and find my strength not in my actions, activities, or self but in the One who created and sustains me. Once I noticed my need to take time daily to spend time in prayer and ask God for His power, movement and plan, I have seen the overwhelming subside and God providing what I needed to make it through the long days. In the midst of my crazy life, I can rest in the Lord. Matthew 11:28, “Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.”