This is who I want to be--my prayer for myself today

I am "borrowing" this from Beth's blog from a few days ago. When I read it, it so struck my heart that this is so what I want for myself. To be truly meek. I am blessed to know a few women like this and so I seek to imitate them as they imitate Christ.

MEEK ~"The meek man, is not a human mouse afflicted with a sense of his own inferiority. Rather, he may be in his moral life as bold as a lion and as strong as Samson; but he has stopped being fooled about himself. He knows he is as weak and helpless as God has declared him to be, but paradoxically, he knows at the same time that he is, in the sight of God, more important than angels. In himself, nothing; in God, everything. That is his motto. He knows well that the world will never see him as God sees him and he has stopped caring. He rests perfectly content to allow God to place His own values. He will be patient to wait for the day when everything will get its own price tag and real worth will come into its own. Then the righteous shall shine forth in the kingdom of their Father. His is willing to wait for that day.In the meantime, he will have attained a place of soul rest. As he walks on in meekness he will be happy to let God defend him. The old struggle to defend himself is over. He has found the peace which meekness brings.Then also he will get deliverance from the burden of pretense. By this I mean not hypocrisy, but the common human desire to put the best foot forward and hide from the world our real inward poverty. For sin has played many evil tricks upon us, and one has been the infusing into us of a false sense of shame." AW Tozer, The Pursuit of God.

Today's reading & prayer request

I am using Stormie's The Power Of A Praying Woman Bible this year. It is great--like having all her books rolled into 1 and then having them sprinkled throughout the Bible! Today's "Going Deeper" section on 2 Kings 4:1-7 spoke to me in regards to my waiting and so I thought that it might minister to you, too.

"Elisha said, 'Go around and ask all your neighbors for empty jars. Don't ask for just a few. Then go inside and shut the door behind you and your sons. Pour oil into all the jars, as as each is filled, put it to one side;".
The widow didn't know what God would do with these empty jars; she only knew He asked her to gather many. This woman's faith would be measured by how many jars she collected.
God took what the widow had in her one jar and multiplied it to fill all the containers she borrowed and brought into her house. She was then able to sell the oil and pay her debts.
God will take what you have and multiply it to meet your needs as well. But how well are you able to contain all God has for you? Do you have faith enough to embrace the big things God wants to do in your life? If not, ask Him to give you big faith, and then determine to shut the door on doubt.

May I ask you to pray that I truly may shut the door on any doubt that the enemy tries to neutralize God's plans with in my life as we continue to be in waiting. Thank you, dear friends.

Please leave any of your prayer requests or devotional thoughts!