Prayers

I was reading my prayer this morning and it made me think about something. Not everyone gets this calling. Not everyone gets this opportunity. Why me?Or does everybody get it, and only a few of us actually answer?Either way, I am just so grateful.I wonder if it goes back further than me. My parents were followers of Christ. My grandparents were too. Probably my great grandparents as well. I wonder if I fall in a line of Christ followers, and if that's part of why I'm here.I am happy and thankful that I am one of the ones who have been called. I get this opportunity. I pray I represent Him well.Peace, Love and Joy always. Infinite Faith and Favor | kharisco.com

God, thank You for the forgiveness that is refreshed every day. I know I don't deserve Your forgiveness, but I am so thankful for it because You have forgiven me. I want to forgive myself, and I want to forgive others. I know now that I don't have to forgive out of my own capacity. I can take the forgiveness You so generously give me and offer it to others when they do things that hurt or harm me. Help me remember Your generous gift of forgiveness every day as I release the anger, resentment, and bitterness I carry toward anyone who has wronged or hurt me. In Jesus' name, Amen. Amen indeed! Peace, Love and Joy always. Infinite Faith and Favor | kharisco.com

I'm on day 204 of the Bible Recap with Tara Leigh Cobble, sitting in Isaiah 31 through 34, and one section stopped me cold. Isaiah 32 names a scoundrel. Someone who plots against people who are already struggling, who works to keep resources and food out of reach of the poor, and does it while the needy's case is completely just. This is not vague wrongdoing. It is a specific pattern. Use lies, target the vulnerable, count on nobody checking the math. A few verses later the same chapter turns to a different group. Women who feel secure. Comfortable. Isaiah tells them to rise up and pay attention, because in a little over a year everything they are resting on will shake. Their sense of safety was never as solid as it felt. I read that and thought about 2026. We have our own scoundrels. People and systems that quietly work to keep food, healthcare, and basic dignity just out of reach for the people who need it most, while calling it policy or business or just how things are. And we have plenty of comfortable people, myself included some days, who can look away because it is not touching us yet. Isaiah does not let either group off easy. The scoundrel gets exposed. The comfortable get warned. And underneath both warnings sits a promise that shows up again and again in scripture. God defends the oppressed. He is a father to the orphan and a defender of the widow. He sees the person whose case is just and ignored, and he does not forget them because a system decided they were inconvenient. Keep reading into chapter 33 and the tone shifts to a direct address against a destroyer, a power that has been taking and taking without ever being taken from. Then it turns to describe God himself as judge, lawgiver, and king, the one actually qualified to sort out what justice even means. Chapter 34 widens the lens further, judgment landing on entire nations, proof that none of this is small or personal. It is God settling accounts on a scale we cannot fully see from where we sit. Here is what stood out most to me. Isaiah 32 does not stop at judgment. A few verses later it talks about the Spirit being poured out from on high, and dry, wasted ground turning fruitful again. Judgment is never the end of the story in Isaiah. It clears the way for something better to grow. I do not think this is about picking one villain and calling it a day. I think it is about checking which side of the chapter I am actually standing on. Am I the one asking hard questions about where my comfort comes from, or am I the one hoping nobody asks? Am I using whatever position I have to make room for someone else, or just to stay undisturbed? Grace does not mean pretending injustice is not happening. Abiding does not mean going numb to who is being left out. It means staying rooted in who God is while refusing to get comfortable with what he calls out. This is where grace and truth have to hold hands. It is grace to remember that comfort is not evidence of being right or being blessed by God to the exclusion of others. It is truth to name when comfort has made me quiet about something I should be speaking on. Neither one cancels the other out. If you are the one whose plea has felt ignored, whose need has been treated like an inconvenience, Isaiah 32 is for you too. God is not confused about your situation. He is not slow. The scoundrels do not get the last word. Peace, Love and Joy always, Infinite Faith and Favor | InfiniteFaithandFavor.com

There's a version of trust that only shows up when things make sense. God is clearly moving, you can see the outline of the plan, and it feels natural to say you trust Him. Then there's a harder version, the kind that gets tested when nothing is clear and nothing is moving the way you hoped it would by now.Psalm 59:16 says, "But I will sing of your strength, in the morning I will sing of your love, for you are my fortress, my refuge in times of trouble."Look at when David wrote that. The heading of Psalm 59 tells us Saul had already sent men to watch David's house so they could kill him in the morning. David wasn't writing this after the danger passed. He wrote it while men were still outside waiting for daylight. He chose to sing about God's strength before he knew how the story would end.That's the posture I think we miss most when we're in trouble. We treat praise like something we owe God after He fixes the situation, like a thank you card sent once we're safely on the other side. But keeping the praise going up while you're still in the middle of it is the deeper act of trust. It's you telling God, without needing to say it out loud, that you are surrendered. That you trust Him. Not because you can see how it ends, but because you already know who He is.That distinction matters more than it sounds. Trusting God's plan and trusting God's character are two different things. You can lose all visibility into the plan and still hold onto the character, because His character was never dependent on how clear your situation looks today. He is a provider. He is a protector. Those aren't titles that only apply when life is calm and predictable. David needed a protector while men were watching his house. You don't have to fully understand what God is doing to still know what He is like.If you're in a season like that right now, ask yourself what God has already proven about His character in your life, even before this current situation. Ask what it would look like to praise Him today specifically because of who He is, not because of how things are going. Ask what changes if you stop waiting for the trouble to pass before you thank Him for being your provider and protector.Take a moment today and thank God for the provider and protector He already is, even in the parts of your life you can't fully make sense of right now. That's not blind faith. That's informed trust, built on a track record He's already given you.Peace, Love and Joy always.Infinite Faith and Favor | kharisco.com

Last night I hit a wall. I felt like I had waited long enough. What's the holdup? Surely I'm ready. I've been ready. I felt the frustration of being in a season that doesn't match what I know I'm here for, and how badly I want to be focused on my purpose instead of stuck in the in-between. So I prayed this instead of staying in the frustration. Dear Heavenly Father, I often want immediate solutions to my problems and the difficult times in my life. It is so hard to wait, but I know your timing is perfect. I know your ways are perfect for me. As I wait, help me learn from the situation I'm in. Help me focus on the blessings I already have. Help me praise you for everything you're doing, everything you've done, and everything you're going to do. When I feel weak, remind me that you are strong. When I feel like giving up, bless me with the strength to persevere. I want to spend every part of my life praising you, trusting you, and loving you and your people. In Jesus' name, Amen. Amen indeed! If you're in a waiting season too, pray this with me today. Peace, Love and Joy always. Infinite Faith and Favor | kharisco.com

I got a short word this morning. Sometimes that is how it goes.Nothing is impossible for God.Five words. And somehow they were enough to sit with for a while.I have been thinking about how we treat prayer like it is a skill to develop — like if we could just get the format right, find the right words, pray long enough, pray specifically enough, our relationship with God would level up. And there is something to growing in prayer. I am not dismissing that.But what came up for me this morning was simpler. Talking with God is not a destination. It is a journey. Every single day is a new opportunity to cultivate that relationship — not to finally arrive at some perfect prayer practice, but to just stay in it. Keep showing up. Keep talking. Keep listening.What "Nothing Is Impossible" Actually Sounds LikeWhen you are in a hard season, "nothing is impossible for God" can feel like a platitude. Someone says it and part of you wants to say — okay, but have you seen my situation? Have you looked at the numbers? Do you know how long this has been going on?I have been there.But here is what I think is actually being said: not that God will do everything you want exactly how you pictured it. It is that there is no situation too far gone, too complicated, too delayed, too broken for Him to move in. The impossible is not a category He is limited by.That is different from saying everything turns out exactly how you planned. It is saying that whatever needs to happen — He can handle it. And that is enough to keep showing up to the conversation.He Delights in YouThis is the part that gets me. The word this morning included this: delight in him just as he delights in you.He delights in you. Right now. In the season you are in. In the version of you that is still figuring things out.Not the future you. Not the more disciplined version of you. You, today.Delighting in God is not performing your best self for Him. It is enjoying who He is — His nature, His presence, the way He shows up, the peace He brings. The same way He enjoys you.That is a relationship. Not a transaction.What Keeps Us From Showing UpA lot of people distance themselves from prayer because they feel like they have not earned the access. Too many mistakes. Stayed away too long. Do not know the right words. Do not know enough scripture.That is not how this works.The God who delights in you is not keeping a log of your absences. He is not tallying up your failed attempts at consistency. You have not missed so many days that you lost your place in line.The door is still open. It was never closed. Come as you are — not as you think you should be. That has always been the invitation.The Daily PracticeNo big formula here. Just this: every morning is a new opportunity. Not to be perfect. Not to have the longest or most eloquent prayer. Just to show up and cultivate. To stay in the relationship the same way you stay in any relationship that matters — with presence, honesty, and consistency.Talk to God like you are talking to someone who already knows everything and loves you anyway. Because that is exactly who He is.And on the days when all you have got is five words — nothing is impossible for God — that is enough. Start there. He will meet you.Peace, Love and Joy always — Infinite Faith and Favor | InfiniteFaithandFavor.com

I wrote something short in my journal this morning. Three sentences. I didn't know what to do with them, but I felt like they needed to go somewhere — like someone needed to read this.Nothing is impossible for God.Talking with God is an ongoing journey. Take every day as an opportunity to cultivate your relationship with Him and delight in Him just as He delights in you.That's all I had. But I keep sitting with it, because those three sentences are doing a lot of work.Let's start with the first one: nothing is impossible for God.Not "most things." Not "things within reason." Not "things if you have enough faith first." Nothing. Zero things. The impossibilities you're staring at right now, the ones you've run out of ideas for, the ones you have convinced yourself cannot turn around — none of them are outside of what He can do.I know that sounds like the thing people say when they don't know what else to say. The church answer. The one that sounds nice but doesn't land when you're in the thick of something. But I'm not saying it to fill silence. I'm saying it because I have lived on the other side of it. I have been at points where I genuinely could not see any way forward. And God moved in ways I did not plan, could not have predicted, and definitely could not have engineered myself.The situation you think is impossible is exactly the kind of situation He specializes in.Now the second part: talking with God is an ongoing journey.This one is for everyone who thinks prayer has rules you've already broken. For everyone who went weeks or months without talking to God and doesn't know how to walk back in the room. For everyone who feels like they need to clean something up first before they can come to Him.You don't. You just start talking.God is not a formal appointment. He's not keeping track of how long it's been since your last check-in. Prayer is a relationship, and relationships grow through all kinds of conversations — the grateful ones, the desperate ones, the confused ones where you don't even know what you're asking. All of it counts. Every day is a new opportunity to build that. You don't have to catch up. You just have to show up.And then this last piece, which is the one that stops me: delight in Him just as He delights in you.He delights in you.Not the version of you that has it together. Not the version you're working toward. The current one — the one reading this right now, with all the complicated history and unfinished edges. He looks at you and delights.If you've spent years feeling like God is disappointed in you, I want to say this directly: that is not His voice. Disappointment implies He expected something different. He knows you completely — He formed you — and His response to the full picture of you is delight. That is the God you're in a relationship with. That is who you're talking to every time you open your mouth in prayer.So when the passage says to delight in Him — it's not asking you to manufacture a feeling you don't have yet. It's asking you to receive what He already started. He went first. His delight in you was the opening move. You're just responding to it.Nothing is impossible. The conversation is always open. And He delights in you.Start there today.Peace, Love and Joy always — Infinite Faith and Favor | InfiniteFaithandFavor.com