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When Your Mind Won’t Slow Down, Prayer Gives It a Place to Rest | Stronger Together · Divine515 Podcast

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  - What if prayer became more than something you
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  - do?
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  - What if it became the way you live?
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  - Life can be overwhelming.
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  - The pressures are real.
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  - The questions
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  - are constant.
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  - And sometimes,
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  - it feels like you're carrying more than you
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  - were ever meant to carry alone.
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  - The inner chamber was created for those who
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  - desire more than occasional inspiration.
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  - It's a community for believers who want to
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  - build a consistent prayer life,
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  - grow in God's word, and walk alongside others,
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  - pursuing a deeper relationship with Christ.
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  - Inside the inner chamber, you'll find guided prayer
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  - practical prayer strategies for life's real challenges,
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  - and a supportive community that encourages prayers and
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  - grows together.
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  - You don't have to figure out your prayer
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  - journey alone.
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  - Come discover what happens when believers gather with
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  - one purpose,
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  - to know God
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  - more deeply and walk with him more closely.
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  - Visit divine515.com
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  - to learn more and become part of the
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  - inner chamber community.
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  - Prayer isn't simply something we do. It's how
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  - we walk with God every day.
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  - Welcome to the divine five one five podcast.
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  - Here is today's prayer.
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  - Hello, and welcome to divine five one five
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  - daily prayers with Valerie Rocha.
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  - Today's prayer topic is addressing when your mind
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  - will slow down, how prayer gives it a
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  - place to rest.
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  - Scripture text I'm coming from today is Isaiah
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  - twenty six and three and says you will
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  - keep
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  - in perfect peace those whose minds are steadfast.
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  - Now we talked about in earlier episodes how
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  - really the the the mind
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  - is the thing that can really,
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  - get cluttered and slow us down.
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  - Why? Because
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  - our minds are like miniature computers,
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  - and they rarely ever take a break
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  - between the notifications
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  - and the deadlines and the family concerns and
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  - the financial pressures and just life. Right? Just
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  - just life.
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  - Even
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  - when our bodies stop moving, our thoughts keep
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  - racing. And so
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  - it can be hard
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  - when our minds were never created to carry
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  - constant pressure without returning to God. You know,
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  - we were we were made and designed to
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  - worship.
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  - And when we keep everything inside,
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  - anxiety begins replacing peace. Now
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  - whether you're an introvert or an extrovert or
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  - a combination of either one,
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  - I can I can tell you from experience,
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  - if you do not
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  - find a healthy outlet,
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  - you will find a negative one?
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  - And so regardless of what it is, you
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  - know,
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  - you're either gonna
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  - cuss it out, fight it out, drink it
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  - out, drug it out, sex it out, all
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  - of the above. I mean,
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  - any number of of things
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  - if you do not
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  - learn to pray it out and read the
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  - word it out.
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  - The the the
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  - the amazing thing about prayer is is that
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  - prayer interrupts the cycle of anxiety.
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  - I often,
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  - liken it to, you know, it it'll just
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  - kind
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  - of put push the button on pause,
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  - and,
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  - it shifts our attention from everything demanding our
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  - focus back to the one who deserves our
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  - trust.
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  - A good example of this is happened to
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  - to me,
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  - just a a few days ago where,
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  - me and this other person were were having
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  - a conversation, and we were trying to we
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  - were working on a on a project together,
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  - and we're and we were trying to come
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  - to a solution. And the person began to
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  - feel really, really overwhelmed and and and express
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  - that. And my response to them is, you
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  - know, let's pray about it. And I wasn't
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  - gonna wait until
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  - 05:00 or or whatever time. I'm like, no.
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  - We're gonna pray about it right now. So
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  - we took that project that we were having
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  - some concerns about, and we laid it right
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  - there on the throne. And and I prayed,
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  - and and I asked God to to,
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  - help us navigate through that. And,
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  - he did that.
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  - But the first thing that he he did
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  - is,
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  - he gave comfort and and healing and restoration
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  - to the person's mind and heart. And even
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  - when it comes to healing, you know, we
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  - often think about healing as something that is
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  - physical. Right? Or, you know,
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  - that's healing us from cancer or God healed
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  - us from death or whatnot. And he can
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  - do all of those things. But
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  - how often do we consider that God heals
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  - us on a daily basis? Right? He heals
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  - our emotions because our hearts get broken.
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  - He
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  - provides the the strategies and the solutions
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  - that we need,
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  - and anxiety dealing with anxiety is a perfect
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  - example of that. And so
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  - prayer is,
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  - you know, it's it's our it's our weapon,
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  - if you will. And,
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  - when we use it properly,
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  - it will cultivate peace, and and it will
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  - cause the peace to to be more consistent.
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  - And anytime we have more consistent prayer, we
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  - are being intentional and we are
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  - enriching our relationship
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  - with God.
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  - So
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  - now that we've addressed all of those components,
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  - we're gonna take
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  - this
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  - concern, whatever the concern is,
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  - to the throne.
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  - Heavenly father, quiet the thoughts that keep pulling
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  - us away from your peace.
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  - Help us release every anxious thought into your
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  - hands and teach us to trust you with
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  - what we cannot control.
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  - Guard our heart and our mind today and
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  - let your presence become the peace where our
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  - soul finds rest. In Jesus' name, amen.
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  - Now,
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  - to continue strengthening your prayer life through practical
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  - biblical teachings,
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  - I would encourage you to visit themind515.com
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  - and to remember
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  - to keep meaning God at the throne.