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Letting Go | God’s Grace for Your Regrets · Divine515 Podcast

• 0:12
  - Welcome to the divine five one five podcast.
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  - Here is today's prayer.
• 0:23
  - Hello, and welcome to daily prayers with Valerie
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  - Rocha.
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  - Today's prayer focus is
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  - God's grace for your regrets.
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  - Scripture text comes from Philippians three thirteen to
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  - 14. It says, forgetting what is behind and
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  - straining toward what is ahead,
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  - I press on toward the goal.
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  - You know,
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  - regret keeps asking one painful question.
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  - What if I had done things differently?
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  - And it is actually
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  - quite gnawing
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  - as it's asking.
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  - It says, what if I had listened?
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  - What if I hadn't said that?
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  - What if I had made another choice?
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  - And while it's
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  - gnawing at us,
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  - the reflection that comes from it can teach
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  - us,
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  - but regret
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  - can trap us.
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  - Sometimes we believe repeatedly punishing ourselves
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  - proves that we're sorry
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  - when in actuality,
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  - condemnation doesn't change the past.
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  - It only keeps yesterday's mistakes alive
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  - in today's mind.
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  - God can teach you through what happened without
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  - requiring you to live under it forever.
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  - But, again,
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  - it's going to require
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  - some work and effort
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  - on your part,
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  - and it can be as
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  - simple as taking the first step by bringing
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  - the regret into God's presence.
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  - Confess what needs to be confessed.
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  - Remember, the same faith that saved you is
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  - the same faith that restores and renews you.
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  - Make something right if God gives you the
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  - opportunity.
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  - Learn what needs to be learned,
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  - and don't be afraid to work through the
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  - pain.
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  - Then receive his grace.
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  - And the power of prayer when we do
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  - this
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  - is that
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  - we can move from I can't believe I
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  - did that to
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  - father God,
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  - show me who you're helping me become
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  - because of what I've learned.
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  - Remember, every experience is a learning opportunity.
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  - That being said,
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  - let's go to the throne.
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  - Dear Lord, today
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  - we give you the regrets
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  - we keep replaying.
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  - Father, sometimes
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  - it's almost like a broken record.
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  - We just keep hitting play
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  - because we don't know how to move forward.
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  - So we ask that you forgive us where
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  - we've fallen short
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  - and give us the courage to make things
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  - right right where we
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  - are and help us to do what we
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  - can because there is a part that we
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  - can play
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  - in whatever the prayer is.
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  - Help us to receive your grace,
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  - learn from the past,
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  - and to move forward without condemning ourselves.
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  - The scripture tells us that whom the son
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  - sets free is free indeed.
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  - Father, today, let us walk in our liberty.
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  - Well,
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  - you cannot
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  - rewrite yesterday,
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  - and neither can I?
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  - But with God,
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  - yesterday doesn't have to write your future.
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  - Know
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  - that God has
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  - the best for you.
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  - And if you know someone who's struggling to
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  - forgive themselves,
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  - share this prayer with them.
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  - And today,
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  - give yourself permission to receive the grace you've
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  - been asking God God to give everyone else.
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  - And until next time, remember,
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  - regardless of what you go through, how difficult
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  - the challenge, there's always room at the throne.
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  - Time.