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An Invitation Into A New Season With God | Guided Prayers · Central Christian Church

• 0:04
  SPEAKER_00: When a season ends, a graduation, the end of a job, the kids moving out, and the house going quiet, it can leave you genuinely unsure of who you are without the same rhythms and responsibilities.
• 0:23
  SPEAKER_00: The ground you stood on for years suddenly isn't there anymore.
• 0:29
  SPEAKER_00: In Isaiah 43, 19, God speaks straight into that disorientation.
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  SPEAKER_00: See, I am doing a new thing.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now it springs up.
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  SPEAKER_00: Do you not perceive it?
• 0:43
  SPEAKER_00: I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.
• 0:49
  SPEAKER_00: God first said this to people in exile, grieving the life they'd lost, stuck in their own wilderness, staring backward at what used to be, blind to anything ahead.
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  SPEAKER_00: And he gently turns their head forward.
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  SPEAKER_00: He doesn't promise the old back.
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  SPEAKER_00: He promises a new way, springing up in the very place that looks like a wasteland.
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  SPEAKER_00: Your deepest identity was never this season anyway.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's that you are his and he has fresh paths waiting for you.
• 1:30
  SPEAKER_00: Let's begin by thanking God for his faithfulness through every season you've walked through, that his love for you never once wavered or ended.
• 1:42
  SPEAKER_00: Thank him that he is, even now, a God of new beginnings.
• 2:07
  SPEAKER_00: What fear about your identity or your future do you need to hand to the Lord right now?
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  SPEAKER_00: Loosen your grip on the past and ask him to fill that empty space with his peace.
• 2:23
  SPEAKER_00: Ask him to guide your steps through this next chapter.
• 3:27
  SPEAKER_00: Let your breathing settle.
• 3:30
  SPEAKER_00: Picture a dry, cracked wasteland, and then a stream beginning to cut through it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Water where there wasn't any.
• 3:40
  SPEAKER_00: Tell him in the quiet, you are making a way.
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  SPEAKER_00: Ask him to help you believe it and trust him for it.
• 4:27
  SPEAKER_00: Ask God to comfort them, quiet their anxieties, and anchor them in His purpose as they step into the unknown.
• 5:31
  SPEAKER_00: Forgive us for clinging to old seasons when you're inviting us into something new.
• 5:39
  SPEAKER_00: We give you our futures today, trusting that your plans are good.
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  SPEAKER_00: Amen.