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Letting Go | When God Closes a Door · Divine515 Podcast

• 0:12
  - Welcome to the divine five one five podcast.
• 0:16
  - Here is today's prayer.
• 0:22
  - Hello, and welcome to daily prayers with Valerie
• 0:25
  - Rocha.
• 0:27
  - Today, we are tackling
• 0:29
  - what to do when God closes a door.
• 0:32
  - The scripture text comes from Revelation three seven
• 0:36
  - and says, what he opens, no
• 0:40
  - one can shut,
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  - and what he shuts,
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  - no one can open.
• 0:47
  - Well, you know, we've talked about how closed
• 0:49
  - doors can feel personal.
• 0:51
  - I mean, you've prayed and you've prepared and
• 0:54
  - you've tried and you've believed,
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  - and yet still
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  - nothing happened.
• 1:02
  - And when something we wanted closes,
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  - it can often lead to disappointment.
• 1:08
  - And disappointment
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  - can quickly become
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  - the question, why God?
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  - But we often judge a closed door by
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  - what we lost,
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  - but perhaps
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  - a better perspective is to look at it
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  - from a perspective of
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  - the fact that
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  - even though we don't
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  - yet know what God may be protecting us
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  - from
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  - or redirecting us toward,
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  - we can rest assure
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  - that in the process when we trust him,
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  - he's preparing us for something.
• 1:44
  - Not every closed door is punishment.
• 1:48
  - Sometimes
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  - it's direction.
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  - So perhaps the question we should be asking
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  - is instead of spending all of our energy
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  - trying to reopen what is closed,
• 2:00
  - to remember that
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  - prayer helps us ask,
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  - where are you leading me now?
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  - You know, you can breathe a closed door
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  - without camping outside,
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  - and that's where the comfort is.
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  - That being said,
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  - let's lay it on the throne.
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  - Father god, give us peace about the doors
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  - that have closed.
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  - Keep us from forcing what you have not
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  - opened.
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  - Heal our disappointment and redirect our attention toward
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  - where you are leading us now.
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  - We intentionally
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  - trust
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  - your wisdom, and we will bless you in
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  - Jesus' name.
• 2:46
  - Well, today's kingdom invitation is maybe today's prayer
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  - isn't God reopen the door.
• 2:51
  - Maybe it should be
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  - or is
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  - God show me where to walk next?
• 2:59
  - Inside the inner chamber, we're building prayer rhythms
• 3:01
  - that help us seek God's direction
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  - through real life transitions and difficult seasons.
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  - We'd like to
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  - extend the opportunity to join the community
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  - free at divine five one five dot com
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  - forward slash free.
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  - And remember,
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  - a closed door doesn't mean God has stopped
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  - moving.