Devo-A Prayer To Your Abba

When you are tired, where do you go to be held? We invite you into a calm, scripture-saturated prayer that trades striving for rest and fear for peace. We begin with childlike trust—coming to God as we are, not as a polished version of ourselves—and ask to be wrapped in a love that is both mighty and tender. You’ll hear the gentle call to live in unforced rhythms of grace, running  only today’s race with joy.

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Transcript

Childlike Trust And Being Held

Prayer Of Being Fully Seen

Surrounded By Love And Guidance

God’s Abundance And Armor Of Light

Protection, Peace, And Strongholds

Lighter Yoke And Healing Love

Freedom, Abiding, And Today’s Race

Hope, Future, And God’s Tapestry

Fragrance Of Christ And Unity

Amen And Support Info

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Welcome to the Father's Business Devotional Podcast, which flows from the heart of Sylvia Gunter and her deep desire to help people know God. May God quiet your spirit and soul, draw you close to the Father's heart, and anchor you in the unshakable truth that you are deeply loved and securely held. Jesus said we must come to Him like little children. And when children feel hurt or tired, all they want to do is crawl up in someone's lap and be held and safe. There's some days that we feel small and weary and just wish there was a place we could go crawl up and hide. And the great news is that your Abba is always waiting to embrace you. So let's pray together. Abba, I know your eye is on me today. You see me, not a filtered version of me, not an imposter version of me, but the real me. I thank you that I don't have to pretend to be strong with you. Regardless of what I'm going to face today, I pray that you would go before me with your loving kindness and grace and truth. You hold me securely in your safe hands, and I am not slipping through your fingers. You fill my heart and my home and everything around me with you. So I ask today that you let me sense that I am wrapped up in you. You go before me today with your loving kindness and grace and truth. You are my rear guard coming behind me with an extra measure of protection. I am surrounded by your love. Father, let every step I take rest on the solid ground of your word. Your promises are yes and amen for me in Christ and for your glory. I ask today that you would be my wisdom, that you would be my clarity and my discernment, that moment by moment you would direct my thoughts as I rest and abide in you. For every need that services today, I thank you that you are the great I am. You are more than sufficient. You are abundant. You are not running low. You are not rationing your grace and your strength from me. Your supply is eternal and ever present. So today I lift up Jesus as my armor of light. I raise the shield of faith to intercept every fiery dart of accusation or fear or shame or confusion. I ask that you remind me moment by moment that I am hidden in Christ. Would you bind every spirit of unbelief and chaos that seeks to steal my peace and silence the lies? I ask through your Psalm 91 protection that you secure the perimeters of my life, my mind, my work, my family, my friends, all of my possessions. Demolish all strongholds that stand against the truth of who you are and who I am in you today. God, I'm weary, and I'm asking for you to lift the burdens that I was never equipped to carry, and replace it with your yoke, which is easy and light. I pray that you would set me as a seal upon your heart, reveal to me not just in theology, but in experience how deeply you love me. Let the balm of your love penetrate any old wounds and soften the hardened places of my heart. God, I don't want to self-protect anymore. I ask that you would break down all of the walls that I have built around my own heart to protect myself. I pray that you would shine a light on any areas of unforgiveness and heal any denial, that you would bind me to the freedom that I already have in Christ, and that I would live truly free. God, I'm asking for you today to speak to me personally words of hope and strength and rest and joy and victory. I'm asking for you to call my spirit to be in the lead and to quiet my soul until I am living in the unforced rhythms of grace. Teach me what it means to truly abide with you. Father, I'm asking for you to give me the supernatural ability to run today's race with joy. Not tomorrow's race, not yesterday's race, but for today. Can I run today's race with joy? I thank you that you walk with me through what is visible and what is hidden in my day-to-day, through what I can understand and what you only know. I thank you that you have a hope and a future for me. I thank you that you are working all things for my good, and that you have prepared good works in advance for me to walk in. I'm asking for you to whisper to my spirit and my soul the truth that the best is yet to come, that your purposes will stand, and that you are weaving strands of a tapestry that I cannot see and may not see in this lifetime. But you are upholding my cause, you are on my team, you do fight for me, and you do have good, kind, loving intentions towards me today. Father, I pray that you would give me a heart that beats after you with every beat. Let every thought and every word lift up, Jesus. Thank you that you have given me the fragrance of Christ, a sweet aroma of life. I belong to you, and your spirit inhabits me. Draw me into a deeper relationship with you. Let your presence fill every room I enter and let your peace settle every space that I occupy. I want to bring that fragrance of Christ with me everywhere I go. So today, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, align my spirit, soul, and body with you in complete unity and allow me to choose to put down striving and pick up resting in your embrace just like a child. We pray this in the mighty and tender name of Jesus. Amen. This podcast is made possible through donations by people like you. To donate, go to www.thefathersbusiness.com. Be sure to follow us at thefathersbiz on Instagram and Facebook.