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God Is Communicating With You_Here_s How to Hear Him · truthunedited

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  Speaker 1: Has this ever happened to you? You were about to
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  Speaker 1: do something. Maybe send the message, make the call, accept
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  Speaker 1: the offer, trust the person, walk into the room, say
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  Speaker 1: yes to the relationship, take the shortcut, answer in anger,
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  Speaker 1: sign the paper, go back to the thing God had
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  Speaker 1: already pulled you out of, and right before you did it,
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  Speaker 1: something inside you said, don't do it. Not loud, not dramatic.
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  Speaker 1: not an audible voice shaking the walls, just a strange pause,
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  Speaker 1: a heaviness, a restraint, something in your spirit, pulled back.
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  Speaker 1: You could not fully explain it, but you knew something
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  Speaker 1: was saying, Stop, wait, don't go there, don't answer like that,
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  Speaker 1: don't trust this, don't open that door. But you ignored it.
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  Speaker 1: You told yourself, I'm just overthinking. You said, maybe I'm nervous.
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  Speaker 1: You said, it's probably nothing. You said, I already made
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  Speaker 1: up my mind. And then you did the thing anyway.
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  Speaker 1: Then later, when everything fell apart, the memory came back,
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  Speaker 1: that quiet warning, that flash in your spirit, that moment
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  Speaker 1: you dismissed. And you thought, I knew it. I knew
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  Speaker 1: I should not have done that. Something told me. But
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  Speaker 1: what was that something? Was it fear? Was it conscience?
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  Speaker 1: Was it wisdom? Was it the Holy Spirit? Was God speaking,
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  Speaker 1: but you only recognized his voice after the damage was done?
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  Speaker 1: If that has ever happened to you, then we need
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  Speaker 1: to talk, because many people say, God is ignoring me,
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  Speaker 1: while stepping over the very ways God has been speaking.
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  Speaker 1: We want God to shout from heaven, but we ignore
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  Speaker 1: the whisper in our conscience. We want a sign in
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  Speaker 1: the sky. but we disobey the Scripture on the page.
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  Speaker 1: We want a prophet to tell us the future, but
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  Speaker 1: we reject the correction God sent through a spouse, a friend,
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  Speaker 1: a sermon, a closed door, or a burden that will
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  Speaker 1: not leave. Then, when life becomes painful, we ask, God,
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  Speaker 1: where were you? But what if God was speaking before
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  Speaker 1: the pain? What if he warned you before the fall?
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  Speaker 1: What if he closed the door before the trap? What
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  Speaker 1: if he delayed the blessing because your heart was not ready?
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  Speaker 1: What if he sent correction before destruction? What if he
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  Speaker 1: placed a burden in you because he was calling you
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  Speaker 1: to obey? Maybe God has not been ignoring you. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: you have been ignoring the way God chose to speak,
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  Speaker 1: and this is not new. From Genesis to Revelation, God
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  Speaker 1: has always spoken in ways people did not expect. He
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  Speaker 1: spoke to Adam with a question, Where art thou? He
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  Speaker 1: spoke to Cain before the murder, and warned him that
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  Speaker 1: sin was crouching at the door. He spoke to Pharaoh
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  Speaker 1: through plagues, because Pharaoh would not listen to a prophet.
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  Speaker 1: He spoke to Balaam through a donkey, because greed had
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  Speaker 1: made a prophet blind. He spoke to Israel through exile,
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  Speaker 1: because they ignored the warnings of the prophets. He spoke
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  Speaker 1: to Joseph through dreams, to Moses through a burning bush,
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  Speaker 1: to Elijah in a still small voice, to Mary through
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  Speaker 1: an angel, to Peter through a rooster, to Paul through blindness,
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  Speaker 1: and to the churches in revelation with the repeated words,
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  Speaker 1: He that hath an ear. let him hear what the
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  Speaker 1: Spirit saith. So the issue is not whether God speaks.
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  Speaker 1: The question is, do you have ears to hear him
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  Speaker 1: when he does not speak the way you prefer? Let
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  Speaker 1: us begin with the first way. Sometimes God speaks through
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  Speaker 1: the warning before the fall. This goes all the way
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  Speaker 1: back to Genesis. Before Cain killed Abel, God spoke to him.
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  Speaker 1: Cain was angry. His face had fallen. Jealousy was already
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  Speaker 1: burning inside him. And God came to Cain before the
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  Speaker 1: blood was spilled. That is mercy. God said, Why art
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  Speaker 1: thou wroth? And why is thy countenance fallen? Then he
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  Speaker 1: warned him, Sin lieth at the door. That picture is terrifying.
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  Speaker 1: Sin crouching at the door like a predator, waiting, ready, close.
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  Speaker 1: God did not ignore Cain. God warned Cain, but Cain
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  Speaker 1: ignored the warning. He still went into the field with Abel.
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  Speaker 1: He still rose up against his brother. He still murdered him.
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  Speaker 1: And after the sin, God came again with a question.
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  Speaker 1: Where is Abel, thy brother? Do you see the pattern?
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  Speaker 1: God spoke before the fall, and God confronted after the fall.
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  Speaker 1: Cain was not abandoned to ignorance. He was warned and
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  Speaker 1: then held accountable. Now bring that into your life. How
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  Speaker 1: many times has God warned you before the field, before
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  Speaker 1: the angry words, before the compromise, before the relationship, before
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  Speaker 1: the return to the addiction? before the dishonest deal, before
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  Speaker 1: the gossip, before the prideful decision, before the secret sin.
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  Speaker 1: Something inside you knew. This is not right. In the
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  Speaker 1: ancient world, gates and doors mattered. They were places of entry, protection, decision,
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  Speaker 1: and vulnerability. When God told Cain sin was lying at
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  Speaker 1: the door, he was showing Cain that temptation was not
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  Speaker 1: yet inside. It was waiting at the entrance. Cain still
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  Speaker 1: had a moment to rule over it. That is important.
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  Speaker 1: Temptation often gives you a moment before it owns you.
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  Speaker 1: A pause, a warning, a check, a holy discomfort. And
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  Speaker 1: in that moment, God is not ignoring you. God is
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  Speaker 1: giving you a way of escape. The New Testament says
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  Speaker 1: in 1 Corinthians 10 that God will make a way
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  Speaker 1: to escape temptation. Sometimes that way of escape is not dramatic.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes it is that inner sentence. Don't do it. Sometimes
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  Speaker 1: it is your phone ringing before you send the message.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes it is a scripture coming to mind. Sometimes it
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  Speaker 1: is a heaviness you cannot shake. Sometimes it is remembering
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  Speaker 1: the last time this road destroyed your peace. But here
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  Speaker 1: is the hard truth. If you keep ignoring God's warnings,
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  Speaker 1: you will eventually become confused about His voice. Not because
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  Speaker 1: He stopped speaking, but because you trained yourself to walk
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  Speaker 1: past Him. So ask yourself, where is sin lying at
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  Speaker 1: the door right now? Do not think of someone else.
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  Speaker 1: Think of you. What are you about to step into
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  Speaker 1: that God has already warned you about? What relationship? What habit?
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  Speaker 1: What conversation? What decision? What secret? What compromise? Pray this quietly. Lord,
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  Speaker 1: do not let me become like Cain, warned but unwilling.
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  Speaker 1: If sin is lying at the door, open my eyes.
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  Speaker 1: Give me humility to stop before the fall, not only
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  Speaker 1: regret after it. Amen. Now the second way God may
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  Speaker 1: be speaking is through a closed door that feels like rejection,
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  Speaker 1: but is actually redirection. In our culture today, closed doors
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  Speaker 1: feel like failure. We are told to force the opportunity,
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  Speaker 1: chase the dream, manifest the future, network harder, push through
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  Speaker 1: every obstacle. The modern world often treats every no as
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  Speaker 1: something to defeat, but biblically a closed door can be
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  Speaker 1: the voice of God. In Acts 16, Paul wanted to
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  Speaker 1: preach in Asia, but the Holy Spirit forbade him. Then
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  Speaker 1: he tried to go into Bithynia, but the Spirit did
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  Speaker 1: not permit him. Think about this. Paul was not trying
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  Speaker 1: to sin. He wanted to preach the gospel. In our
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  Speaker 1: modern language, we would say, that is ministry, that is calling,
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  Speaker 1: that is a good thing. But God still said no.
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  Speaker 1: That should humble us. Not every good idea is a
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  Speaker 1: God assignment. Not every open opportunity is obedience. Not every
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  Speaker 1: desire to do something meaningful means it is the right time,
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  Speaker 1: right place, or right door. In Paul's day, travel was
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  Speaker 1: not easy. A change in direction cost time, strength, money,
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  Speaker 1: and risk. When God blocked Paul, it was not a
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  Speaker 1: small inconvenience. It was a serious redirection. But after those
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  Speaker 1: closed doors, Paul received the Macedonian vision. Come over into
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  Speaker 1: Macedonia and help us. The closed doors were guiding him
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  Speaker 1: toward the open one. Now think about your own life.
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  Speaker 1: You prayed for the job, but it did not happen.
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  Speaker 1: You prayed for the relationship, but it ended. You prayed
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  Speaker 1: for the opportunity, but someone else got it. You prayed
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  Speaker 1: for the platform, the move, the approval, the door, and
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  Speaker 1: it stayed shut. So you said, God is ignoring me.
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  Speaker 1: But what if the shut door was the answer? What
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  Speaker 1: if God was saying, not there, not them, not now,
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  Speaker 1: not that way? You are not ready. They are not safe.
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  Speaker 1: This would feed your pride. This would pull you from me.
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  Speaker 1: This blessing would become an idol. Here is where the
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  Speaker 1: ancient Bible story touches the modern heart. We live in
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  Speaker 1: a time where rejection can be public. You see who
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  Speaker 1: got the job. You see who got married. You see
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  Speaker 1: who got promoted. You see who bought the house. You
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  Speaker 1: see who got the platform. Everyone else's door seems open
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  Speaker 1: on your screen while yours stays shut in private. And
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  Speaker 1: envy starts preaching, but do not let envy interpret God's
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  Speaker 1: closed door. Some doors are shut because God is cruel. No,
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  Speaker 1: some doors are shut because God sees what you cannot.
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  Speaker 1: A closed door may save your life, your soul, your marriage,
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  Speaker 1: your calling, your humility, your future. So ask yourself, what
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  Speaker 1: door am I still trying to force open? There is
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  Speaker 1: a difference between faith and stubbornness. Faith obeys God through resistance.
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  Speaker 1: Stubbornness tries to make God bless what he already blocked.
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  Speaker 1: Pray this. Father, I surrender the door I keep trying
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  Speaker 1: to force. If it is closed by your mercy, help
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  Speaker 1: me stop calling it rejection. Redirect me toward Macedonia, toward
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  Speaker 1: the place you are actually sending me. Amen. Now the
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  Speaker 1: third way God speaks is through delay that exposes your trust.
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  Speaker 1: This one hurts because delay feels like silence. Nothing moves.
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  Speaker 1: No answer comes. No result appears. You pray, but the
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  Speaker 1: situation remains. You wait, but the promise seems farther away.
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  Speaker 1: From Genesis onward, God's people often meet him in delay.
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  Speaker 1: Abraham receives a promise, but Isaac does not come quickly.
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  Speaker 1: Joseph receives dreams, but before the palace comes a pit, slavery,
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  Speaker 1: false accusation, and prison. Israel receives promises of land, but
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  Speaker 1: they spend generations waiting. David is anointed king, but years
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  Speaker 1: pass before the throne. Even in Revelation, the souls under
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  Speaker 1: the altar cry, How long, O Lord? How long? is
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  Speaker 1: one of the oldest prayers of God's people. But delay
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  Speaker 1: is not empty. Delay speaks. Delay reveals. Abraham and Sarah
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  Speaker 1: show us this clearly. God promised a son, but time passed.
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  Speaker 1: Sarah remained barren. Abraham grew older. The promise became biologically impossible.
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  Speaker 1: In that delay, their trust was tested. Sarah gave Hagar
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  Speaker 1: to Abraham, and Ishmael was born. They tried to produce
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  Speaker 1: by human strategy what God had promised by divine power.
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  Speaker 1: That still happens today. You prayed for God's timing, but
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  Speaker 1: now you are forcing your own. You prayed for a
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  Speaker 1: godly relationship, but now you are entertaining compromise because loneliness
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  Speaker 1: feels too heavy. You prayed for provision, but now you
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  Speaker 1: are tempted by dishonesty. You prayed for ministry, but now
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  Speaker 1: you are chasing attention. You prayed for healing, but now
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  Speaker 1: bitterness is becoming your identity. You prayed for direction, but
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  Speaker 1: now panic is making your decisions. Delay exposes whether you
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  Speaker 1: trust God or only trust Him when He is fast.
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  Speaker 1: In the ancient world, barrenness carried shame especially for women.
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  Speaker 1: Sarah was not only waiting for a child. She was
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  Speaker 1: living under social grief, household tension, and cultural pressure. That
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  Speaker 1: helps us understand her temptation. But it doesn't make the
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  Speaker 1: shortcut right. Today, our pressure looks different, but it works
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  Speaker 1: the same way. Timelines, age, social media, family expectations, financial stress,
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  Speaker 1: fear of being behind. You watch other people receive what
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  Speaker 1: you begged God for, and the waiting begins to accuse
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  Speaker 1: God in your heart. But listen. Do not create Ishmael
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  Speaker 1: because Isaac is taking too long. Do not build a
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  Speaker 1: future God did not give because you are tired of
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  Speaker 1: waiting for the one He promised. Delay may be God saying,
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  Speaker 1: I am not only preparing the promise, I am preparing you.
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  Speaker 1: So ask yourself, what has waiting exposed in me? Has
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  Speaker 1: it exposed fear, control, envy, bitterness, desperation, compromise, a need
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  Speaker 1: for approval? a refusal to trust God unless He follows
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  Speaker 1: your calendar. Pray this, Lord, I confess that delay has
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  Speaker 1: exposed things in me I did not want to see.
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  Speaker 1: Keep me from forcing what you have not given. Teach
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  Speaker 1: me to wait without panic and obey without shortcuts. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Now the fourth way God may be speaking is through correction.
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  Speaker 1: You keep calling criticism. This is one of the most
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  Speaker 1: rejected voices of God. We say, Lord, speak to me.
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  Speaker 1: But when he speaks through correction, we defend ourselves. A
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  Speaker 1: spouse says, you have become harsh. A friend says, you
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  Speaker 1: are drifting. A sermon exposes your pride. A child says,
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  Speaker 1: you never listen. A leader warns you. A scripture pierces you.
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  Speaker 1: Your conscience will not rest. But instead of asking, Is
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  Speaker 1: God correcting me? You say, They do not understand. They
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  Speaker 1: are judging me. That was not for me. They said
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  Speaker 1: it wrong. They do not know my heart. That is dangerous,
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  Speaker 1: because pride can make the voice of God sound like
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  Speaker 1: an insult. David's story proves it. After David sinned with
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  Speaker 1: Bathsheba and arranged Uriah's death, God sent Nathan. In the
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  Speaker 1: ancient world, kings held power over life and death. A
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  Speaker 1: prophet confronting a king was dangerous. Nathan was not giving
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  Speaker 1: David a self-help suggestion. He was bringing the word of
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  Speaker 1: the Lord into a royal cover-up. Nathan told a story
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  Speaker 1: about a rich man stealing a poor man's lamb. David
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  Speaker 1: became angry at the injustice. Then Nathan said, Thou art
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  Speaker 1: the man. That was God speaking. David could have silenced Nathan.
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  Speaker 1: He could have defended himself. He could have blamed stress, power, loneliness, war, temptation,
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  Speaker 1: or Bathsheba. But David said, I have sinned against the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: That sentence opened the door to repentance. Now bring it
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  Speaker 1: to today, we live in a culture that often treats
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  Speaker 1: correction as harm. People say, do not judge me, even
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  Speaker 1: when the truth is trying to rescue them. We protect
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  Speaker 1: our self-image more than our soul. We want affirmation, not correction.
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  Speaker 1: We want peace, not repentance. We want someone to understand
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  Speaker 1: our pain, but not confront our sin. But God loves
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  Speaker 1: you too much to comfort what he is trying to crucify.
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  Speaker 1: So who has been your Nathan? Who told you the
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  Speaker 1: truth you keep rejecting because it hurt? What repeated correction
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  Speaker 1: keeps coming through different people? What scripture keeps finding you?
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  Speaker 1: What conviction keeps returning after you explain it away? Maybe
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  Speaker 1: God is not ignoring you. Maybe he is correcting you
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  Speaker 1: and you keep calling it criticism. Pray this, Lord, make
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  Speaker 1: me correctable. Forgive me for rejecting truth because it wounded
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  Speaker 1: my pride. Help me receive correction before my heart becomes hard. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Now the fifth way God speaks is through a burden
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  Speaker 1: that will not leave you alone. This is different from anxiety.
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  Speaker 1: It is not panic. It is not obsession. It is
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  Speaker 1: a holy weight. A person keeps coming to mind. A
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  Speaker 1: need keeps troubling you. A broken situation keeps grieving you.
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  Speaker 1: A scripture keeps returning. A ministry keeps stirring. You keep
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  Speaker 1: saying somebody should do something. And maybe God is saying, yes, you.
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  Speaker 1: Nehemiah shows us this. He was in Persia, serving as
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  Speaker 1: cupbearer to the king. He was not standing beside Jerusalem's
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  Speaker 1: broken walls when he first heard the news. He was
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  Speaker 1: far away. But when he heard that the walls were
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  Speaker 1: broken and the gates burned, he sat down and wept.
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  Speaker 1: He mourned. He fasted. He prayed. Before Nehemiah had a plan,
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  Speaker 1: he had a burden. In the ancient world, city walls
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  Speaker 1: represented protection, identity, dignity, and survival. Broken walls meant vulnerability.
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  Speaker 1: Burned gates meant shame. Nehemiah was not simply upset about architecture,
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  Speaker 1: he was grieving the exposed condition of God's people. Today,
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  Speaker 1: the walls may not be stone, they may be spiritual.
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  Speaker 1: A family with no prayer covering, a young believer with
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  Speaker 1: no mentor, a church full of consumers but few servants,
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  Speaker 1: a child growing up without biblical truth— a friend drifting
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  Speaker 1: into sin, a community broken by addiction, a lonely person
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  Speaker 1: no one calls, and God keeps putting it in front
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  Speaker 1: of you. But many people bury burdens under busyness. They say,
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  Speaker 1: that is sad, and keep scrolling. They say, someone should call,
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  Speaker 1: but never call. They say, the church should help, but
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  Speaker 1: never ask how they can serve. They feel the weight,
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  Speaker 1: but because obedience interrupts comfort, they dismiss it. A burden
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  Speaker 1: that never becomes obedience eventually becomes background noise. So ask yourself,
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  Speaker 1: what burden has God placed on my heart that I
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  Speaker 1: keep treating like a passing thought? Who keeps coming to mind?
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  Speaker 1: What need keeps returning? What broken wall do you keep noticing?
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  Speaker 1: Pray this, Lord, show me the difference between emotional heaviness
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  Speaker 1: and holy burden. If you are placing someone or something
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  Speaker 1: on my heart, teach me how to pray, act, and obey. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Now let us bring the whole Bible together. In Genesis,
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  Speaker 1: God warned Cain before murder. In Exodus, God redirected Moses
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  Speaker 1: from hidden failure to calling. In the prophets, God corrected
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  Speaker 1: kings and nations before judgment. In the Gospels, Jesus called
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  Speaker 1: people to hear and obey, not just admire His words.
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  Speaker 1: In Acts, the Spirit closed doors and opened Macedonia. In
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  Speaker 1: the epistles, believers are taught to test, discern, repent, and
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  Speaker 1: walk by the Spirit. In Revelation, the final book repeats
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  Speaker 1: the same warning, He that hath an ear, let him
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  Speaker 1: hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches. From beginning
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  Speaker 1: to end, the problem is not that God never speaks.
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  Speaker 1: The problem is that people often do not listen. Adam hid.
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  Speaker 1: Cain ignored. Pharaoh hardened his heart. Israel resisted the prophets.
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  Speaker 1: The rich young ruler walked away sorrowful. The churches in
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  Speaker 1: Revelation had ears, but still needed to hear. And now
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  Speaker 1: the question comes to you. Where have you not been listening?
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  Speaker 1: Is there a warning you keep dismissing? A door you
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  Speaker 1: keep forcing? A delay that is exposing your impatience? A
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  Speaker 1: correction you keep resisting? A burden you keep burying? Do
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  Speaker 1: not make this vague. Make it personal. Maybe God is
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  Speaker 1: not ignoring you. Maybe He is warning, redirecting, forming, correcting,
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  Speaker 1: and calling you. And maybe the silence you feel is
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  Speaker 1: not emptiness. Maybe it is the space between what God
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  Speaker 1: already said and what you have not yet obeyed. Pray
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  Speaker 1: with me. Lord, forgive me for the times I called
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  Speaker 1: you silent while ignoring your warnings, your closed doors, your delays,
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  Speaker 1: your correction, and your burdens. Teach me to discern your
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  Speaker 1: voice through Scripture, humility, and wisdom. Make me sensitive without
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  Speaker 1: becoming fearful, discerning without becoming suspicious, and obedient without needing
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  Speaker 1: every answer first. Where I have ignored you, have mercy
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  Speaker 1: on me. where you are speaking now, help me listen. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: go deeper in your Bible understanding and draw closer to God,
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  Speaker 1: join us on the Deep Bible Stories website. The link
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  Speaker 1: is in the description. Maybe God is not ignoring you.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe He has been speaking all along. And maybe this
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  Speaker 1: video is one more way He is asking, Are you
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  Speaker 1: listening now?