Do you need a reset?

Hello my friend, and thank you for joining me on A Miracle Every Day!

Yesterday I mentioned that the “check engine” light came on in my car. When I took it to the mechanic, he diagnosed the problem. I had pushed the limits of my fuel gauge! I put off filling up with fuel for so long that air had gotten into the fuel line. I was literally running on empty!

Have you ever felt that you were running on empty? King David did. Listen to him share about the burdens of his life from the same passage as yesterday, Psalm 42.

“As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When can I go and meet with God? My tears have been my food day and night, while men say to me all day long, ‘Where is your God?’ These things I remember as I pour out my soul: how I used to go with the multitude, leading the procession to the house of God, with shouts of joy and thanksgiving among the festive throng. Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God. My soul is downcast within me; therefore I will remember you from the land of the Jordan, the heights of Hermon—from Mount Mizar. Deep calls to deep in the roar of your waterfalls; all your waves and breakers have swept over me. By day the LORD directs his love, at night his song is with me— a prayer to the God of my life.” (Psalm 42:1-8, NIV)

David is honest and open about his current reality, and I love that David concludes his heartbreak with “a prayer to the God of my life.” If you are starting this year on empty, I want to encourage you to refill your heart with:

Honest conversations with God in prayer. There is nothing you cannot bring to God in prayer. A genuine heart to heart conversation with God, without fancy words or pretense, can sustain you for days and you’ll come back again and again because God is a brilliant conversationalist!

“Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.” (Philippians 4:6, NIV)

“Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.” (Romans 12:2, NIV)

When the mechanic finished with my car and reminded me to keep my gas tank full, he mentioned that he had reset the “check engine” light. We all need a spiritual reset from time to time.

My prayer is that this spiritual journey will refill your spiritual tank and help you to reset your mind, heart, and soul!

Jesus, thank You that we can come to You in prayer. Allow us to reset our hearts on You today, and thank You for the promise that we have spiritual fuel to power us through the miracle of today! Amen.

Never forget my friend -

You are a miracle!

Grant