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Prayer Was Never Meant to Be Your Last Resort | Stronger Together · 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
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  - guided prayer experiences that help you apply scripture
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  - to everyday 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 divine five one five
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  - daily prayers with family Rocha.
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  - I'm your host, and today's prayer topic is
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  - prayer was never meant to be your last
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  - resort.
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  - Scripture text comes from Colossians four two and
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  - says, devote yourselves
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  - to prayer, being watchful and thankful.
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  - You know,
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  - many believers sincerely love God.
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  - I think that it it's,
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  - it's something that
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  - God yearns for and we wanna connect with
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  - God. And yet prayer often becomes something we
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  - turn to only after everything else has failed.
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  - And
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  - I've I've talked about in previous,
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  - episodes that if you wanted to get to
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  - know someone, you you need to spend time
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  - with them. Right? You'd you'd want to find
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  - out what their favorite color was, what their
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  - favorite foods were.
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  - If it's a,
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  - you know,
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  - intimate relationship,
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  - you're gonna wanna spend every moment, you know,
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  - sometimes,
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  - you know, spending long hours,
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  - with that person.
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  - I I remember when, my husband and I
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  - were
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  - were dating,
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  - for months. You know, there were many nights
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  - where we just talked for hours.
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  - Right? And then still had to get up
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  - the the next morning, but we we did
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  - it and counted it all with joy.
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  - Being in love with God is is a
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  - lot like that. Right? We we have to
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  - put the time in. And,
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  - we forget
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  - that
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  - because we're not intentionally spending that time with
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  - him,
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  - we try to fix the situation when we
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  - run into a problem or we ask everyone
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  - else.
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  - We exhaust every option,
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  - and then we pray. Right?
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  - So by that time, you're you're in a
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  - a crisis situation.
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  - Right?
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  - And that's not what God wants. He doesn't
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  - want us in an in a in a
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  - crisis nine one one situation.
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  - And and the challenge is is because we've
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  - unintentionally separated prayer from our everyday life. You
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  - know, it it should be part of us
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  - just like
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  - breathing. Right?
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  - But I think sometimes we're just not conditioned
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  - to to to go there. Instead of walking
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  - with God throughout the day, we often reserve
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  - him for emergencies.
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  - And,
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  - the the powerful thing about prayer is it's
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  - always our connection point. Right? It's always the
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  - the thing that allows
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  - us to plug in, right, into the source
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  - and,
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  - be rejuvenated.
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  - Right?
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  - It transforms
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  - ordinary moments into opportunities for God to lead
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  - us. And it changes our conversations. It changes
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  - our decisions, our relationships, our responses.
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  - I cannot tell you how many times,
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  - I have
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  - been in
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  - a a sit many situations where I just
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  - didn't know what to do. And just taking
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  - those moments out of my day or,
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  - going
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  - intentionally away on a break or or whatever
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  - to just spend that moment with God and
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  - just
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  - breathe a prayer or talk to him or
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  - ask him to give me peace,
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  - and settle my spirit and guidance
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  - met all the difference in the in the
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  - world.
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  - And,
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  - because repair isn't just
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  - simply preparation for life, it becomes the way
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  - we we we live it. Right? And so,
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  - want to encourage you
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  - to
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  - never allow the the prayer as a last
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  - resort. And remember we talked about, if you're
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  - worrying all the time,
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  - well, you are praying, but you're praying in
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  - the negative. Right? Because you're spending all of
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  - your energy
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  - on the problem.
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  - God wants us to flip the the pendulum
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  - and focus on
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  - the the the giver who's bigger than the
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  - problem. Right?
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  - We don't get to choose what we're faced
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  - with, but we can choose how we deal
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  - with it. And so,
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  - allow prayer to transform
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  - those difficult moments to extraordinary moments.
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  - And that when you do that, you'll find
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  - that there's a sweetness that comes, and and
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  - it will really enhance and enrich your relationship
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  - with God.
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  - That being said, let's go to the throne.
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  - Father God, forgive us for the times we've
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  - treated prayer as our last option
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  - instead of our first response.
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  - Teach us to invite you into every
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  - conversation, every decision, every challenge, and every opportunity.
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  - Let prayer become woven into the fabric
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  - of our daily life until walking with you
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  - becomes as natural as breathing.
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  - Thank you for always welcoming
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  - us into your presence,
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  - and we will bless you in Jesus' name.
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  - Well, if you desire to make prayer a
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  - lifestyle style instead of an occasional practice,
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  - we'd love to walk with you,
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  - in that journey.
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  - We wanna
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  - welcome and invite you to join, be part
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  - of the inner chamber prayer family on divide,
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  - five one five.
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  - And,
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  - it's a great place where believers can grow
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  - together through prayer, and God's word can be,
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  - enriched, and we can learn together and, receive
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  - authentic encouragement.
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  - So,
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  - if you're interested, come and visit us at
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  - divine515.com.
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  - And we look forward to connecting with you
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  - because prayer isn't something simply that we do.
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  - It's how we walk with God.
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  - Every day.