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Letting Go | When God Is Asking You to Move On · Divine515 Podcast

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  - Welcome to the divine five fifteen
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  - podcast. Here is this week's devotional.
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  - Hello, and welcome to daily prayers with Valerie
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  - Rocha.
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  - We are continuing our letting go series
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  - by addressing what to do when God is
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  - asking you to move on.
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  - Scripture text comes from forty three eighteen
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  - through 19 and says, forget the former things.
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  - Do not dwell on the past.
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  - See,
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  - I am doing a new thing.
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  - Well, we're gonna start this conversation today by
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  - saying that sometimes we're asking God to restore
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  - something
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  - he's asking us to release.
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  - Sometimes it's a relationship
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  - or an opportunity,
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  - an old version of ourselves,
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  - a plan we were certain would work,
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  - or even a season that was once good.
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  - And because it mattered to us, moving forward,
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  - can feel like we're dishonoring what was.
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  - And
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  - because of it, familiarity
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  - doesn't necessarily
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  - mean fruitful.
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  - We're creatures of habit, so we hold on
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  - to old seasons because we know them.
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  - And the next season requires faith because we
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  - don't know what it will look like yet.
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  - But
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  - we can become so focused on what God
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  - did then
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  - that we fail to recognize what he's doing
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  - now.
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  - Now I'd like to also add here that
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  - God is always moving
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  - and he's always doing something
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  - behind the scenes.
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  - That's where the faith comes in. And because
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  - we're part of him, we should be moving
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  - to
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  - The key is we wanna be sure that
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  - we're moving in the right direction.
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  - Now
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  - prayer allows us to honor what was while
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  - surrendering what is over, and this can be
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  - kind of grievous.
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  - I mean, let's face it.
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  - We can get
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  - so comfortable
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  - that letting go can be quite painful,
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  - but we can thank God for the people,
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  - the opportunities,
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  - lessons, and experiences of previous season
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  - as how trying to live there permanently.
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  - Sometimes our prayer needs to change from God,
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  - bring it back to
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  - father, help me recognize what you're doing. And
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  - now
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  - now letting go doesn't erase the past.
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  - It simply stops the past from determining the
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  - future.
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  - That being said,
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  - let's pray.
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  - Heavenly father, thank you for every season you've
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  - used to shape us.
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  - Give us discernment
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  - to recognize
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  - when something has ended
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  - and courage to move forward without fear.
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  - Father, help us release what was and remain
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  - attentive
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  - to what you are doing now,
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  - and we will bless you in Jesus' name.
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  - This week's challenge is
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  - to present God with the question of, am
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  - I holding onto something you've already asked me
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  - to release?
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  - Now it's easy
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  - to do
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  - if you apply it
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  - with intentionality,
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  - or maybe it won't be easy
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  - because it sounds easier to say than it
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  - is to do, but do it anyway.
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  - Don't rush the answer
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  - and don't
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  - walk through seasons of transition alone.
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  - The inner chamber community provides a place for
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  - prayer,
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  - encouragement, and connection
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  - with others who are growing in their walk
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  - with God just like you.
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  - We'd like to invite you to join us
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  - free at divine five one five dot com
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  - forward slash free.
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  - And if you know someone navigating
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  - transition,
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  - share this episode with them.
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  - Sometimes moving forward begins with knowing we're not
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  - alone.
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  - And until next time,
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  - release yesterday
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  - and stay open to what God is doing
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  - today.