Sometimes I wonder if I’m the only one on what I call, a Christian Roller Coaster. I know we all have mountains and valleys, which to me sounds like a little while in each, but I use the phrase roller coaster because my mountains and valleys interchange so quickly, I can barley keep up.

Everyone has good days and bad days; everyone has struggles behind private doors; everyone holds hurt that only God will ever know. I often put myself at the bottom of my thoughts and prayers, especially when it comes to physical and mental pain; both of which I am no stranger to. I feel as though there are so much more important things to pray for. There is always someone worse off than yourself.

In man’s eyes, that’s how we see things. We put different weights to prayers, and sins. For example, we might would say someone that has cancer would need more prayers than someone hoping to get an A on final exams in school. I’m thankful God doesn’t put weights on prayers. In God’s eyes, no prayer is bigger than another. They are all equal.

In the past, I asked a person for prayers. In my eyes, I was going through a rough patch and feeling at a real low point. Their response was, ‘Well we need to be praying for so and so,’

I instantly regretted asking for prayer. In myself, I pray for that person more than most and certainly over myself. At that moment of feeling inadequate, satan takes a small single piece of hair and quickly spins it into a thick rope.

Satan is a prayer killer. He makes us not want to ask prayer for ourself. The more we need prayer, the harder satan works for us to not ask for it. When satan spins a rope, he puts threads of other things along with it, making the rope strong. Doubt, anger, frustration, confusion, and fear.

But God sees this too, and thank him, when we do start to fall with the rope that satan crafts for us, God is there to catch us to create the slack. And in that moment of slack, our eyes go to him that is holding us. The rope starts to unwind and fall to the ground, like hair cut in a barber shop. All that hard work that satan had done so quickly, even faster so, God’s hand diminished it.

Judges 6:16 KJV- ‘And the LORD said unto him, Surely I will be with thee,’

I am so thankful that no matter how quickly we fall and take our eyes off of him, God is always there to catch us and pull us back up. In the bible, it seems there are so many events that happen quickly, and events about others during times of struggle that take their eyes off the Lord; thankfully, God pulled them through their struggles too, just as he still does for us.