Your Deal Is More Important Than My Deal

I'm trying to be more vulnerable and less protective, so when Lana asked me how I was doing tonight, I told her the truth:

"I"m feeling anxious about the following things," I said, "Making all the phone calls to see who's coming to Starting Point, preparing my message for this Sunday, acquiring a video projector for this Sunday, how to revamp our worship music with multi-tracks and higher quality instrumentation, whether the bank is going to honor the interest rate we agreed to 2 months ago but now they can't remember, whether the videos I've been working on will augment the message at church or distract, how to care for the members of the church who are hurting, when and where I'm going to have to get another job and go bi-vocational because our church's bank account is drying up, and how to bring friends to church on Sunday when our car is only a 5-seater"

Lana replied, "sounds like you better to into your room and close the door and pray to your  Father in Heaven these words, 'your deal is bigger than my deal' and then make your requests.'"

I responded, "gotta go," and headed up to the spare room to pray. I read this verse in Psalm 21:

"How great is his joy in the victories you give." In other words, God gets the victories, not us. Our job is to rejoice when He does His thing.

Yes, I've got a lot of anxieties and worries and concerns. But the God I worship cares about me. It's His church, not mine.  I can bring all my burdens to Him in prayer. He's more interested in me than what I do for him. All these things will be taken care of. I can rest in his faithfulness.