Before I was baptized and turned my life over to God, I couldn’t keep a job. I have had at least nine jobs over the past eight years, and most of them only lasted a few months. Some a few weeks. A couple no more than a few days. 

I would get in my head at work and get anxious around people. I would be so nervous that I would walk out the front door and never come back.

It would frustrate me because I wanted to do something with my life, but I felt like I had no chance. Then, one day, I started a job waiting tables, and, as usual, I was nervous and awkward and fumbled around while screwing up orders and making a fool of myself. 

Then I had the thought to just start praying. 

I prayed before a shift that God would guide me and help me to do a good job. That shift went great. Not only was I not awkward, I excelled and knocked it out of the park. I started praying before the next shift and the next, and every single time I was like a different person. 

People even asked me what changed. I told them that I started to pray about work.

I would continue to do this as I re-enrolled in college and God continued to help me achieve goals that I never thought that I would have been capable of. I was baptized a few years after the first shift where I prayed, and things have been different ever since.

Don’t underestimate prayer.

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