Letting Go of Our Prayers

A while back I read an allegory about a little girl whose favorite doll was broken. She was so shattered and hurt that she ran immediately to her daddy and pleaded with him to please, please, please repair her precious doll. After all, she slept with this doll, she ate with this doll. This doll was her constant companion. The thought of the doll being broken broke her heart and made her cry. So, her daddy attempts to examine the doll and see what damage was done and what he might do to repair his little girl’s doll. Examining the doll proved to be quite difficult as his little girl would not totally release her doll to the hands of her daddy. He would ask her to release the doll’s foot, which she did, but then she held onto the doll’s arm. The little girl simply could not let go of her doll and hand her completely to her daddy. Her daddy gently hugged his daughter and spoke tenderly to her and explained that unless she released the doll to his care, he would not be able to repair the doll. Reluctantly, the daughter released the doll to her daddy’s care so that he could repair her doll.

Did you ever consider that we are very much like the little girl and that our prayers and concerns are very much like her doll? How often do we hold onto our prayers and concerns and not fully release them to our Heavenly Father who waits patiently for us to release them to Him?

What freedom would we experience if we would only let go and let God have our prayers and concerns. It is when we fully release them that we are fully open to what God can and will do. Abba is Hebrew for “Daddy.” So, when you cry, “Abba God, please answer my prayer,” you are saying, “Daddy!!! Please answer my prayer!”

You, my dear friend, are God’s great delight! He is crazy about you! Did you know that God delights in you so much that He sings over you? Zephaniah 3:17 tells us that, “The LORD your God is in your midst,) a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his love; he will exult over you with loud singing.” (ESV)