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Still Carrying Yesterday? Here’s How Prayer Helps You Let Go | 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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  - are constant.
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  - And sometimes,
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  - were ever meant to carry alone.
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  - Visit divine515.com
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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 Gabriela Rocha.
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  - I'm your host.
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  - And today we are talking about
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  - if you're still carrying yesterday,
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  - how prayer is gonna let you go.
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  - And the scripture text comes from first Peter
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  - five seven. It says, cast your anxiety on
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  - him because he cares for you.
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  - You know, we've been talking about how
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  - distractions,
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  - really get in the way of,
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  - us
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  - wanting to spend
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  - quality time with God. I think the other
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  - thing that we're really experiencing
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  - in these days and times is the spirit
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  - of anxiety,
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  - just being so emotionally and spiritually
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  - overwhelmed where we're feeling like we're spiritually hydroplaning,
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  - if you will.
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  - Many of us start each morning carrying yesterday's
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  - disappointments in today,
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  - and,
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  - we replay some of the things that we
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  - have no control over, like the conversation we
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  - wish we had,
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  - gone differently.
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  - Or maybe it's a mistake that we made,
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  - and we we didn't give ourself grace, so
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  - we keep replaying that.
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  - Maybe it's the burden we thought would be
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  - gone by now.
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  - And instead of beginning each day with fresh
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  - hope, we begin already emotionally
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  - exhausted.
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  - And the wait isn't always in our circumstance.
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  - Sometimes
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  - it's in what we
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  - refuse to release.
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  - And
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  - there, I wanna say that, you know,
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  - because we're creatures of habit, sometimes
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  - change can be really, really difficult for us.
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  - And if we get in those negative patterns,
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  - those,
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  - unhealthy patterns, wherever they they could be, right,
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  - sometimes we'll hold on to those patterns.
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  - Why? Because not necessarily because they're comforting to
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  - us, but,
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  - but because they're familiar to us. And we
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  - are familiar with that. We're familiar with that
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  - pain. We're familiar with the outcome. So
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  - we know what to expect if we keep
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  - this pattern up. Right?
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  - And changing
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  - the pattern or doing something to,
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  - reverse the pattern or bring change can be
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  - very, very terrifying.
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  - So we often believe that if we keep
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  - thinking about the problem long enough, we'll eventually
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  - solve it.
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  - But instead, we become emotionally attached to the
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  - burden.
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  - We replay it. We'll analyze it. We carry
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  - it until it begins carrying us.
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  - And
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  - the example that I,
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  - I give is
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  - if
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  - you are carrying a boulder, right, that burden
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  - is like a boulder. Right?
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  - You're not gonna be able to carry it
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  - very far. Now if you're a bodybuilder, they're
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  - used to picking up everything, so they could
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  - probably carry something a little bit farther than
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  - the average person. But
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  - normally, you're only gonna be able to take
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  - a couple of steps and then you're gonna
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  - need to drop that thing.
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  - And likewise,
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  - God's word is telling us, give me whatever
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  - the burden is. I can handle it. I'll
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  - help you through it. I'll give you the
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  - peace. I'll give you the hope.
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  - And how this works is because prayer gives
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  - us permission to stop holding what God has
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  - already invited us to surrender.
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  - Right. He he's always about building the relationship
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  - is always about the invitation.
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  - Come to me. Let's talk about it. Let's
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  - let's work it through together.
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  - So each time we pray, we loosen our
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  - grip on worry and strengthen our trust in
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  - God. Why? Because we, we
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  - acknowledge that I can't handle this, but your
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  - word says that you can. And so I'm
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  - gonna trust
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  - that, you know, what's best
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  - prayer doesn't erase yesterday. I'm I'm not gonna
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  - tell you that it's easy. I'm not gonna
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  - say that it's it's gonna just, you know,
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  - magically disappear.
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  - But what it does do is it will
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  - keep yesterday from controlling today. Right? Because you
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  - can't do anything about yesterday.
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  - You can only look forward.
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  - So
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  - take heart. Know that God has you. Trust
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  - that he has you.
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  - He has never
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  - he has never
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  - and will never forsake you. He will not
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  - abandon you.
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  - Not mentally, not spiritually,
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  - not emotionally.
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  - There's nothing that you can do. Nothing. I
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  - mean nothing. And there were some people in
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  - the Bible that did some really horrendous things
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  - and yet he was able to change their
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  - lives and they became some of the heavy
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  - hitters in the gospel.
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  - And we are just modern day children of
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  - Israel.
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  - We're gonna make mistakes. We're gonna stumble. We're
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  - gonna fall.
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  - But
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  - remember,
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  - it's not how many times you follow.
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  - It's how many times you get up.
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  - So,
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  - cast your cares, give it to God, and
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  - let's move forward.
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  - Having said that, let's go to the throne.
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  - Heavenly father, today, we choose to release every
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  - burden we've carried longer than you intended.
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  - Teach us to trust you enough to let
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  - go of what we cannot change
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  - and embrace the peace you freely offer.
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  - Renew our hearts, father, with fresh hope and
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  - remind us that your mercies
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  - are new
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  - every morning.
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  - Help us walk into
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  - today
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  - lighter because we're walking
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  - and you have everything under control.
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  - And we will bless you in Jesus' name.
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  - Amen.
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  - Every
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  - surrounded burden creates more room for God's peace.
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  - He welcomes the conversation,
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  - allow him to come in.
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  - And
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  - one great way to do that is by
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  - joining us in the inner chamber prayer community,
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  - which can help you build a lifestyle of
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  - prayer that keeps your heart anchored in Christ.
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  - So until then,
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  - have a wonderful day. And remember, prayer isn't
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  - simply something we do. It's how we walk
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  - with God every day.