Pressure Devotional

Psalm 55:16-17
As for me, I call to God, and the Lord saves me. Evening, morning and noon I cry out in distress, and he hears my voice.

Five years ago, I was under a lot of pressure. I was a principal of a school and completing post-graduate work for a superintendent endorsement. I was selling my home in the city after three traumatic incidents: a bullet came through the second floor of my home in my children’s rooms, my front fence needed repair after it had been damaged during a police car chase and my garage needed repair because a young lady tried to run over her boyfriend with her car and ran into my garage instead.

During this time, I was also very active in my church. I was a co-facilitator of youth church, ministry leader for new members class and youth choir and attending monthly meetings for Christian education. When I really examined my life, I saw a busy woman under pressure who was not prioritizing her family and that was bothering me. I wanted to scream!

When we want to scream at the top of our lungs from life’s pressure, we should call out to God and ask him to deliver us. God hears us 24 hours, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. He hears our calls to him when we are under pressure and he desires to deliver us whether it is morning, noon or night.

After I prayed to God, the pressure was less and my life looked and felt different. By the end of the following year, I completed my superintendent classes, my family and I were in a new home in the suburbs and I had transitioned to a new church home. I was also spending more time with my family.

When we discover that we are under pressure, we need to examine it. Does God really want his children being under a lot of pressure? Is that really what he desires for us? Oftentimes, pressure overtakes us and we are not aware of it’s grasp on our lives. We need to examine if the pressure is too much and if it is, call out to God and ask him to deliver you or give you a plan of deliverance.

Prayer
God please help me to let go of things that are causing pressure and stress in my life. I want my life to show evidence of your goodness.

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