“Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life.” (Matthew 6:25)

Close your eyes, take a deep breath in through your nose and gently exhale as you release all your outer concerns and center yourself in God.  Wherever you are at this moment, in what ever experience you find yourself, know that God is with you.  In everything, you can trust God’s wisdom and power and love!  In everything, you can trust God’s wisdom and power and love!  If something seems too difficult for you to handle, remember that you are not alone in ANY situation.  God’s presence is with you.  If questions assail you or you feel confused, let go for awhile the need to reason, the need to set things right.  Surrender thoughts and feelings to God and quietly remind yourself trust in God.

Repeat the words, “I trust in God” until you know without a doubt that God loves you.   God knows what is best for you and your loved ones.  God’s presence and power are constant and unchanging.  Wherever you are, God is moving within you, through you, around you to bring God’s good into visibility.

Take time now to become quiet in prayer, to place all in the hands of God who created and loves you.  God knows what is best for you and sees possibilities that you may not see.  God will help you and show you the way.

Stop thinking about the details and release everything completely into God’s hands.  God knows the way and will show you each step to take.  It is a moment of great assurance that will remind you again that it is not you but God who does the word.  From that moment of receiving this great assurance, accomplishment and completion will follow.

You will meet every seeming question, doubt, or lack of faith with the truth – I trust in God!  Every need great or small will be met.  Results will be good.

Jesus demonstrated that the very best answers, the very best help for everything in life comes through letting go and letting God take over, through letting God reveal the highest and best ways for you to go in.

Let us now, use a simple method to help strengthen your growing faith and understanding.  Vision right now that you are holding a small box with a firm fitting lid, in your hands.  Now vision a small slip of paper that you write the words “I trust God” – the prayer need that you write is kept as brief and clear as possible.  As you place this request in the box affirm in prayer: “This is in Your hands, God and I give thanks for the best results in everything!

If doubts should enter your mind, you quickly remember that you have already given this need to God.  You give thanks that God – NOT YOU – is doing the work.  Peace and release come each time you place a prayer in this box.  This action encourages you to have spiritual faith and reaffirm that your choice is to trust God.

Strength and understanding may not come all at once, but you will prove your desire is real, as you are willing to follow and trust, God will show you the way.  You realize that there is no part of your life that is unimportant to God.  Whatever your need – whether it deals with health, finances, or human relations – nothing is beyond the love and action of God’s presence and power.  There is nothing you can’t turn over to God, nothing too small or too great for Divine love to work through for good.  Rest now in the silence …..

As you slowly open your eyes and return your awareness, know that the most you trust God, the more your mind and heart and life will be filled with Divine power and love.  Jesus showed us that letting go and letting God is a healing power.  He tells us in all He says, over and over again – trust God.  During this year may you trust God more than ever before in your entire life.  Amen.