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•A Prayer for When God Closes a Door•By Anthony Valente👉 “The steps of a man are established by the Lord, and He delights in his way. When he falls, he will not be hurled headlong, Because the Lord is the One who holds his hand.” (Psalm 37:23-24)“If God didn’t shut any doors, how would we know which ones to go through?” My friend challenged me with this question during a hard season, when our family was processing disappointment. My high school senior received a rejection letter from his dream university; months of hard work, extra tests, essays, and an interview all went down the drain, together with his hopes.We usually think of God guiding our path by opening doors for us, but in reality, He also shuts them. When we don’t get the job, our child doesn’t make the team, or the deal on the new house falls through, our disappointment can leave us feeling discouraged.Today’s verse reminds us that in Christ, we can trust God to order and establish our steps. However, sometimes He also allows roadblocks on our path.If you’re going through a season of obstacles, setbacks, and closed doors, remember that both your steps and your stops are ordered by God. Whether He opens or closes doors, God delights in leading you down the path He has marked out for you.When God closes a door, you can trust He does it out of love. He has a better plan than you can imagine. You can also be sure God will open another door for you before long, and He is preparing you for whatever lies ahead. While you wait on Him to act, remember His faithfulness.Take heart and remember God delights in your way. Even when obstacles cause you to stumble, He will hold your hand and steady your heart.Let’s pray.✝️ Heavenly Father, Even when I don’t understand what You are doing in my life, I praise You for Your faithfulness and power. When I feel disappointed, I will remember Your steadfast love. Help me to trust that You are ordering my steps according to Your perfect plan for my life.You are my Faithful Shepherd; give me the grace I need to trust Your leading. Thank You for the doors You open and for the doors You close.Comfort and strengthen my heart today. When discouragement and doubt come, help me believe You have good plans to bring blessing into my life. Enable me to take courage as I wait on You to act in response to my prayers.Thank You Father that my steps are ordered by You and that You take delight in establishing the way I should and are able keep me from falling. Help me to set my heart on things above, knowing that Christ is, seated at the right hand of God as my eternal Provider who delights to order my way and establish the path I take.Lord, please take me by the hand and lead me down the path that You have chosen for me. Show me when it is time to wait and when I need to move ahead. Thank You for Your faithful and steadfast love. I will rest in it today. I trust and love You Lord.In Jesus’ Name I Pray,AMEN 🙏 The heart of man plans his way, but the Lord establishes his steps.(Proverbs 16:9)Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.(Proverbs 3:5-6)Establish my footsteps in [the way of] Your word; Do not let any human weakness have power over me [causing me to be separated from You].(Psalm 119:133)There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens.(Ecclesiastes 3:1)He brought me up out of a horrible pit [of tumult and of destruction], out of the miry clay, And He set my feet upon a rock, steadying my footsteps and establishing my path.(Psalm 40:2)As for me, I look to the LORD for help. I wait confidently for God to save me, and my God will certainly hear me. Do not gloat over me, my enemies! For though I fall, I will rise again. Though I sit in darkness, the LORD will be my light.(Micah 7:7-8)"If righteous people listen and serve [him], they will live out their days in prosperity and their years in comfort.(Job 36:11)The LORD supports everyone who falls. He straightens [the backs] of those who are bent over.(Psalm 145:14)He safeguards the steps of his faithful ones, but wicked people are silenced in darkness because humans cannot succeed by their own strength.(1 Samuel 2:9)“Write this letter to the angel of the church in Philadelphia. This is the message from the one who is holy and true, the one who has the key of David. What he opens, no one can close; and what he closes, no one can open.(Revelation 3:7)The LORD keeps watch over you as you come and go, both now and forever.(Psalm 121:8)For I have stayed on God’s paths; I have followed his ways and not turned aside. I have not departed from his commands, but have treasured his words more than daily food.(Job 23:11-12)For a righteous man falls seven times, and rises again, But the wicked stumble in time of disaster and collapse.(Proverbs 24:16)Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers him out of them all. He keeps all his bones; not one of them is broken.(Psalm 34:19-20)My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father's hand. I and the Father are one.”(John 10:27-30)“‘I know your works. Behold, I have set before you an open door, which no one is able to shut. I know that you have but little power, and yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name.(Revelation 3:8)Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.(John 14:6)Then Jesus began to tell them that the Son of Man must suffer many terrible things and be rejected by the elders, the leading priests, and the teachers of religious law. He would be killed, but three days later he would rise from the dead.(Mark 8:31)Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer.(Romans 12:12)(pic verse)All Scripture is inspired by God and is useful to teach us what is true and to make us realize what is wrong in our lives. It corrects us when we are wrong and teaches us to do what is right. God uses it to prepare and equip his people to do every good work.(2 Timothy 3:16-17)Artist 👨‍🎨 I Am With You Always - David Delfeld