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Letting Go | Surrendering Your Unknowns to God · Divine515 Podcast

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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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  - Today's prayer focus is talking about surrendering your
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  - unknowns to God.
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  - Scripture text comes from Psalms fifty six and
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  - three and says, when I'm afraid,
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  - I put my trust in you.
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  - You know, uncertainty can make almost everything feel
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  - unstable.
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  - We don't know what the doctor will say.
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  - We don't know whether the opportunity will work
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  - out. We don't know what will happen with
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  - the relationship.
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  - We don't know what the next season will
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  - look like.
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  - And sometimes
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  - the not knowing feels harder than receiving an
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  - answer we don't want.
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  - Our minds, because we're human,
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  - requires that
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  - we want certainty.
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  - And when we don't have it, we start
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  - filling in the blanks ourselves.
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  - And unfortunately,
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  - seer usually writes the worst version of the
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  - story because it's hanging out with its counterpart,
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  - worry.
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  - And yet trust doesn't require knowing what happens
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  - next.
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  - That's why it's called faith.
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  - It requires knowing where to turn when you
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  - don't.
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  - Psalms 56 doesn't say I will trust God
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  - when I'm no longer afraid
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  - because life is always going to be filled
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  - with
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  - something that makes us feel uncertain or uneasy,
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  - and yet God encourages us
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  - to say, when I'm afraid, to put our
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  - trust in him.
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  - Fear and faith may show up in the
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  - same moment.
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  - It's just life
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  - and it's just the way it goes sometimes.
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  - But the question is which one will you
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  - follow?
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  - The choice is always up to you.
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  - That being said,
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  - let's take whatever
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  - you're being challenged with today to the throne.
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  - Heavenly father,
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  - you already know what feels uncertain in our
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  - life.
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  - When fear begins filling in the blanks,
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  - father, bring us back to what we know
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  - about you.
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  - You are faithful,
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  - present,
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  - and always
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  - trustworthy.
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  - Help us trust you even when we don't
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  - know what happens next,
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  - and we will bless you in Jesus' name.
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  - Well,
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  - today's kingdom invitation is when uncertainty
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  - starts asking what if
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  - answer with even if I don't know what
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  - happens next, I know God will be with
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  - me.
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  - And as always
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  - inside the inner chamber, you'll find a community
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  - where you can submit prayer requests
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  - and know others are joined with prayer through
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  - life's uncertain seasons.
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  - We'd like to invite you to join us
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  - at divine515.com
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  - forward slash free.
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  - And remember,
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  - you don't need tomorrow's answer to trust God
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  - today.