Last night as I was getting ready for bed, I was thinking and praying about the Kingsfield move to the theaters and all the details that are still being worked out.  But as I was praying I heard myself say “please help us work all these things out”.  That of course caught my attention and distracted me for a few minutes.  I wasn’t asking for God to work things out.  I was asking for God to help me work things out.  Praying with the wrong motivation is like praying backwards.  It doesn’t make much sense.

I’m not saying that it is a bad thing to pray help us work things out, but I think we do need to be careful of our motives.  Now when I was praying for God to help me work things out, I wasn’t really thinking about getting things to work out so that it will make me look better.  My heart was in the right place this time, but at the same time, it isn’t much of a step for me (a person that deals with trying to do things and work things out on my own) to be thinking and worrying about how I am going to make all these things happen.

So I want to pray that God work these things out.  I want to pray that I follow His lead and do the things He wants me to do.  Enough about me.  We already know that I am not capable of doing all this on my own.  That’s why He is in charge.  Now I just need to get out of the way and let Him do His thing.