You set out to have more faith, not to practice witchcraft, so nothing about your prayer life ever felt like sorcery. You were quoting Scripture the whole time. You learned to declare the promise, stand on the Word, and pray until the breakthrough came. But somewhere in there your prayers quietly …
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507: You Made a God Out of Safety and Control. Dr. Alison Cook on Secure Attachment to God, Why Control Is Fear in Disguise, the Wilderness That Strips Our Scaffolding, and the Codependency We Call Sacrificial Love
You would never call it worship. You'd call it being responsible. But look at what you organize your life around, what you reach for the second the ground shifts, the thing you cannot fall asleep without having settled. You have built an altar to certainty, and you bow at it every time fear whispers …