Turn to me and have mercy, for I am alone and in deep distress. My problems go from bad to worse. Oh, save me from them all! [Psalm 25:16-17 (NLT)]

O Lord, I usually pray that you will make my problems disappear rather than ask you to show me how to work through them. I want you to change my circumstances when you have given me the circumstances so I will change my character. Help me to learn your lessons so that I can become the person you want me to be.

Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God’s will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect. [Romans 12:2 (NLT)]