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Strengthened at the Throne: Strength for Difficult Seasons Devotional · Divine515 Podcast

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  Welcome to the divine five one five odd
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  podcast. Here is this week's devotional.
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  Hello, and welcome to divine five one five.
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  Well, we've come to the end of our
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  strengthened at the throne series.
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  This is episode four where we're going to
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  be talking about how to endure life's hardest
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  moments.
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  And to do that, we're gonna be
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  showcasing
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  how
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  prayer
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  strengthen Jesus.
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  Key scripture for today comes from Hebrews five
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  and seven
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  and reads as follows.
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  During the days of Jesus' life on earth,
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  he offered up prayers and petitions with fervent
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  cries and tears,
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  and he was heard because of his reverent
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  submission.
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  Now all through this series, we've been talking
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  about
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  the who, what, whys, and where's of how
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  Jesus used prayer
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  to to stay strengthened at the throne.
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  Today, we wanna talk about
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  how
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  prayer did not remove the difficulty from Jesus'
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  life, but it did strengthen him to endure
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  it.
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  Through prayer, Jesus remained aligned with the father's
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  will.
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  If you recall in a previous episode,
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  the scripture
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  said, not my will, but your will be
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  done.
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  In essence, Jesus was saying, I really don't
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  want to do this,
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  but because
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  I want to be in obedience
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  and do your will because I love you,
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  father,
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  I will do whatever you whatever you say.
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  And so we see that through prayer,
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  he found the strength
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  to walk through suffering
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  with a purpose.
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  Through prayer, he stayed anchored in obedience
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  even when the path
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  was painful,
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  and this same strength is available
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  to us.
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  We don't get to choose what comes to
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  us, but we can choose
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  how we deal with it.
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  And the most comforting part of it all
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  is knowing that we don't have to go
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  through
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  pain
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  aimlessly.
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  It has a purpose,
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  but more importantly,
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  the God
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  that loves us and the Messiah of our
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  salvation is right there with us in the
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  midst of it to walk us through
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  whatever the fire is.
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  Prayer does not always change the circumstance
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  immediately,
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  but it does change the heart that faces
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  it.
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  It strengthens courage.
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  It steadies faith,
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  and it reminds us that we are never
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  walking through hardships
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  alone. When we kneel at the throne before
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  God,
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  we will always
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  rise stronger when we leave whatever we're being
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  faced with there.
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  Being strengthened at the throne, we can endure
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  what once felt
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  impossible.
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  Let's pray.
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  Heavenly father,
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  strengthen me through prayer when life becomes difficult.
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  Help me trust your presence even when the
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  path is hard.
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  Build endurance in my faith and give my
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  heart courage.
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  Let my strength come from time spent with
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  you.
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  Thank
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  you for giving us the tools and the
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  strategies
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  to be strengthened
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  to face whatever it is
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  in life.
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  that these devotionals
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  in our prayer life.