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The Bible Effect | Building a Consistent Bible Study Rhythm · 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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  - experiences that help you apply scripture to everyday
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  - life,
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  - monthly biblical teachings that strengthen your faith,
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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 daily prayers with Valerie
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  - Rocha,
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  - where today's prayer topic is dealing with how
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  - to stay consistent
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  - with bible study and prayer.
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  - Key scripture today is John fifteen and seven.
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  - It says, if you remain in me and
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  - my words remain in you,
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  - ask whatever you wish and it will be
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  - done for you.
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  - Well,
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  - here's the challenge.
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  - Starting is often easier than staying consistent.
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  - We begin a new bible plan with excitement,
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  - but then life gets busy.
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  - We miss one day,
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  - then another.
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  - And before too long, guilt makes returning to
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  - God feel harder than it should be.
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  - We sometimes
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  - build spiritual routines around perfection
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  - instead of relationship,
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  - and missing a day becomes failure instead of
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  - simply an invitation to return.
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  - Consistency
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  - isn't
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  - never missing.
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  - It's continually
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  - coming back.
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  - Scripture tells us
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  - that a just man falls
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  - seven times,
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  - but
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  - he gets back up.
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  - It's just to say that, yes, you're gonna
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  - fail. You're gonna make mistakes, but we're not
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  - gonna wallow in it. We're gonna get up,
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  - brush ourselves off, and keep moving. That's where
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  - the strength and the victory lies.
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  - Prayer removes performance from the relationship.
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  - God isn't asking us to impress him with
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  - a perfect streak.
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  - We couldn't if we try anyway.
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  - But he is inviting us to remain connected
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  - to him.
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  - When the rhythm gets interrupted,
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  - go back to the source
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  - and present yourself at the throne.
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  - Father, here I am again.
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  - Then open his word.
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  - It will reinforce you, encourage
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  - you, and recalibrate
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  - your spiritual trajectory.
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  - Spiritual consistency
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  - grows through
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  - turning, not through perfection.
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  - That being said, let's pray.
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  - Heavenly father, help us build a consistent relationship
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  - with you
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  - that is rooted in love rather than obligation.
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  - When life becomes busy or my routine gets
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  - interrupted,
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  - keep us from allowing guilt to push us
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  - farther away.
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  - Draw us back to your presence
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  - and your word.
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  - Give us discipline to seek you regularly
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  - and grace when we fall short.
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  - May returning to you become one of the
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  - strongest rhythms
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  - of our life,
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  - and we will bless you in Jesus' name.
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  - Well, if you've fallen out of your routine,
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  - don't wait until Monday next month or a
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  - new Bible plan.
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  - Start again today.
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  - And if you want support developing consistent rhythms
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  - of scripture and prayer, we invite you to
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  - join us at divine515.com
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  - and learn more about the inner chamber prayer
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  - community.
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  - As always,
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  - keep meeting God at the throne.