There are times when a prayer will fall from my lips that I know the Spirit, not my mind, has prayed through me. As I began to pray this morning, I prayed, “Lord, help me hem in the garment of my faith.” Like an unhemmed pair of pants that are too long and flop around our feet, we can too easily be tripped up and fall over a dangling pant leg.
The Lord had me pray that prayer because I have been asking Him to help me hem up one area of my life. The Lord gave me this prayer as a spiritual metaphor to do what I need to do to finish the race of my life well and remain in intimacy with Him. I want to be able to run the race of faith and not stumble because I did not dedicate myself to trimming a loose part of my faith.
I’ve watched Jan hem in a pair of pants that were too long. Reducing the hemline removes the excess length of a pant leg, limiting the possibility of tripping over an excess. When the Lord prayed through me this morning about trimming an issue of my faith, He was doing it so that I could run with endurance and not stumble over things that do not need to be part of my life of faith..
“Let us strip off every weight that slows us down, especially the sin that so easily trips us up. And let us run with endurance the race God has set before us”(Hebrews 12:1).
This is an updated edition of a post originally published on Garris Elkins
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