I spoke all day yesterday and all day today at this seminar in Halifax and as I sit tonight in my motel room I am exhausted sitting here doing nothing but staring at the wall and now writing this blog. I am now in the beginning steps of practicing the disciplines that I teach on how to manage weariness. The first step is to praise the Lord for the great priviledge of doing significant work for Him that caused the weariness. It must have been incredibly significant to make me this tired!! The second step is to ask that He would fill me up with His strength. The Lord renews the strength of those who ask Him and depend on Him. Dear Lord, I do ask You now, please give me Your great strength. Psalms 18:1-2 says,
​“I love You, O Lord, my strength.”
The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer,
My God, my rock, in whom I take refuge;
My shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.
The third step is to not say out loud that I am tired and not even to think it, because it only gets worse. Provers says “As a man thinks in his heart so he is” the fourth step is to ask Him for more to do tomorrow trusting Him to give me the strength to do it well.
The fifth step is to ask Him for Joy so that I will be really happy and positive and not grumpy and filled with self pity, and then to choose to act happy in obedience to Him. The sixth step is to go to bed and get rested up for the great day of service tomorrow.