A prayer for when you covet another's success by Alicia Headley, read by Leah Martin.

These were his instructions to them.

The harvest is great, but the workers are few, so pray to the Lord who is in charge of

the harvest.

Ask him to send more workers into his fields.

Luke 10 to you.

Have you ever wondered if there's room for you?

Maybe you feel compelled to start something new or pursue a new path that there are already

so many who have proven their success before you that space feels limited.

So you've had a dream tucked in your heart from the time you were young.

Yet you see someone else doing something similar, and it seems to diminish your large dream

into a much smaller one.

I can relate.

In the past few years, I left my career to pursue what I felt God was calling me to.

Women's ministry.

I began following other women in ministry.

Their blogs, reading their books and their social media platforms were often than not,

rather than being inspired by their work, the enemy crept in, telling me lies that their

ideas are better than mine, that they already were doing the work needed.

So there was no more room for me, that opportunities were scarce.

Their success is already proven to be far greater than mine, that the work for me is limited.

This is what Jesus reminds us in the first part of today's scripture.

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