Prayer / Strength 

I just finished cleaning the house, and I am so thankful that God motivated me to do it. I want to clean every Saturday, but sometimes I simply don’t feel motivated enough. Today, as I worked, I found myself thinking about the faithfulness of God—even in something as small as cleaning my home.

I’ve been feeling ill lately, coughing and sneezing, and I honestly didn’t think I would have the strength to clean anything at all. But I prayed and asked God for strength. And prayer always works. When we are weak, He is strong. His strength is what carries us through anything that comes our way.

I turned to Mark 14:32–42, and verse 38 especially caught my attention:

“Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

The night before Jesus was arrested and taken to be crucified, He brought three of His disciples with Him and asked them to pray. Jesus knew what was coming, but they didn’t. He knew they needed strength to face what was ahead, and the only way to receive that strength was through close communion with the Father.

Even Jesus—fully God yet fully man—sought the Father before facing the cross. If He needed that connection, how much more do we?

Heavenly Father, I need to come to You daily. Help me, Lord, to have a closer communion with You.