If you ask God to help you in some situation, you must then cooperate with what God wants to do in the situation you have prayed about. Often, we pray for a stressful situation to change but then we continue to go about things in the same way we did before. God will change things in your situation if you ask, but you too must be prepared to change, and you must be prepared to be an agent of change in that circumstance. God wants you to be involved in changing your circumstances by being the first one to undergo change. With God’s help we can be used to change negative circumstances for the better, but we must also keep in mind that God often uses negative circumstances to change us for the better. It goes both ways. As you change, so too will things change around you. It’s not your superior virtue that qualifies you to be an agent for change. It is God’s transforming power working in you that also, therefore, works through you. If you don’t change then things won’t change around you. So today, rather than just focusing on what must change or improve in your situation, ask yourself what needs to change in you and in the way you relate to your situation. Pray that God will change your circumstances but then be willing to cooperate with God as he begins that work of change with you.
Pray that God will change your circumstances for the better, and reflect on what changes you must make.
Read Psalm 119:145-160
