Holly Furtick delivers a short devotional message on prayer and faith titled “Let Go of Your List.” She urges listeners to hold their requests lightly—holding faith firmly even when outcomes differ from expectations—drawing on Hebrews 4 to argue that Jesus empathizes with human weakness. She testifies that God’s presence provides grace and mercy in dark seasons and encourages listeners to stay close to God while waiting.
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One of the greatest things that I'm learning about prayer is that I have to hold my list. The things I want God to do, how I want him to do it, when I want him to do it. I hold my list with a light grip, because sometimes God's gonna ask me to let go of my list. But hold firm to my faith. May not happen the way you thought it would, but my faith is not in the. My faith is in my God, who I believe is working all things for my good. My faith is in the God who knows the number of hairs on my head. My faith is in my perfect Father, who knows me better than I know myself. All I have to do is stay close to him, no matter how dark it gets, and remember that he is with me. You know that there is no darkness you can experience that Jesus has not already felt. Hebrews 4 tells us. Look at this. I love this passage of Scripture. Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has ascended into heaven, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold firmly to the faith we profess. For we do not have a high priest who is unable to empathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are. Yet he did not sin. Let us then approach God's throne of grace with confidence so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need. Jesus experienced every grief and every temptation. He is the true friend, the true empathizer, our Heavenly Father. He actually went to all the schools. He went to betrayal school. He went to raise a child with special needs school. He went to loneliness school. And you can. You can come to him. I'm telling you now, you can come to him with confidence. And while we wait for him to give us an answer, we find so much more. We find grace and we find mercy in our time of need. It's in the waiting that we get to know him better. We find out that he's not just a God who heals, but he is a God who is with us in our pain and in our confusion and in our frustration and in our disappointment. And he stands by. He never left. He's with you, stands by, ready with the grace that you need for each moment. And when I think of the darkest seasons in my life. The seasons of my life. When you wake up in the morning and for a brief second, you forget everything that you're going through. Have you ever been there? And then all of a sudden, the pain and the realization of what's going on and the fear sets in in those moments. What I remember most from those seasons is the tangible presence of God. If I didn't stay close to Him, I wouldn't have gotten out of bed. If I didn't stay close to Him, I wouldn't have made it through the day. And no, I wouldn't have chosen those situations and those seasons. But I'm here to tell you today, if you stay close, you'll come out stronger on the other side. Hey, thanks for watching. I hope that that encouraged you today. Make sure that you subscribe so that you don't miss out on other videos like this, and I'll see you back here next.
