Provision

A Prayer for Provision When I Do Not Know How

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“For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.”Isaiah 55:9

Father, I have run out of plans. I have turned this over from every angle and I genuinely do not know how the need gets met, and the not-knowing is its own exhausting weight.

I confess I have always quietly believed that if I just thought hard enough, I could solve anything, and the failure of my own cleverness here has left me rattled and humbled.

But maybe that is exactly where You want me, at the end of my answers, finally still enough to look up at the One who sees the whole road I cannot see.

Provide a way I cannot map. I do not need to understand how, I only need You to know the how. Send the help, open the door, connect the dots that are hidden from me right now.

Your word says Your ways are higher than my ways and Your thoughts higher than my thoughts, the way the heavens are higher than the earth. So I will stop demanding to see the blueprint.

I surrender the how to You and keep only the asking. Make a path I could never have planned, and let me follow it. Amen.

Amen.

You do not have to know the how. You only have to know the One who does.

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