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Letting Go | Overcoming Unmet Expectations · Divine515 Podcast

• 0:12
  - Welcome
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  - to the divine five one five podcast. Here
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  - is today's prayer.
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  - Hello, and welcome to daily prayers with Valerie
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  - Rocha.
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  - Today's prayer focus is overcoming unmet expectations.
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  - Scripture text comes from Psalms thirty four eighteen
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  - and says the Lord is close to the
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  - brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in
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  - spirit.
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  - Well, you know, some disappointment comes from losing
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  - something,
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  - and it might end up being very grievous
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  - in the process.
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  - And yet other disappointment comes from never receiving
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  - what we were hoping for.
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  - The opportunity didn't happen or maybe it was
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  - a relationship that didn't become what we thought
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  - it would.
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  - The prayer wasn't answered the way we expected.
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  - And sometimes the hardest disappointment is disappointment we
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  - don't feel comfortable admitting to God.
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  - You know, we may believe faith means we
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  - shouldn't feel disappointed,
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  - but that's not actually
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  - valid or realistic.
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  - Scripture does tell us that man is born
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  - of a woman and full of trouble,
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  - so disappointment
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  - is
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  - part of the bargain even though we didn't
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  - necessarily
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  - sign up for it.
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  - So instead of processing it, we bury it.
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  - But buried disappointment doesn't disappear.
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  - It can quietly become bitterness,
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  - distance, or distrust.
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  - God isn't threatened by your disappointment.
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  - I often say that there's not one thing
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  - that we go through that God does not
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  - know about
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  - and that he always welcomes the conversation.
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  - The biggest challenge
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  - is that we
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  - tell ourselves all kinds of fallacies
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  - that keep us from going to him.
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  - But
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  - the power
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  - comes when you can tell him the truth
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  - because he is truth,
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  - and I've learned in various instances you cannot
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  - lie or argue with the truth.
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  - And that even tells us
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  - that when we pursue the truth, he will
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  - set us free.
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  - So
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  - because of it,
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  - transparency
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  - with ourselves and with God
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  - isn't lacking.
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  - In fact, it's quite the opposite.
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  - It's relationship.
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  - That being said, always remember that prayer gives
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  - disappointment somewhere to go so it doesn't become
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  - something you carry indefinitely.
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  - Well, now that you've been encouraged,
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  - let's pray.
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  - Father God, you know where life hasn't turned
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  - out the way we would have hoped.
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  - So today, we bring you our disappointment,
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  - whatever it is,
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  - without pretending
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  - because we cannot lie to you, we cannot
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  - run from it, and we cannot hide because
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  - you are true,
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  - and you know and see everything.
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  - Father, we ask that you heal what has
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  - been broken,
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  - protect our heart from bitterness,
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  - and help us trust your goodness
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  - even when we don't understand
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  - the outcome.
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  - And we will bless you in Jesus' name.
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  - Amen.
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  - What disappointment have you been reluctant to talk
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  - to God about?
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  - That's a good place to start
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  - right there.
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  - Inside the inner chamber, we create a space
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  - for real prayer,
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  - not perfect prayer,
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  - with opportunities to bring prayer requests before a
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  - community committed
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  - to praying together.
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  - And you can join free.
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  - Simply visit us at divine515.com/free.
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  - And until tomorrow, remember,
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  - give God the disappointment
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  - you've been trying to hide.