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A Heart That Continues to Seek God’s Direction | Walking in Spiritual Discernment · 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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  - I am your host. And
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  - whether this is your first time joining me
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  - or you're a return listener, I'd like to
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  - say welcome.
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  - We are starting a new series in July
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  - entitled walking in spiritual discernment,
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  - and I want to start the conversation
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  - by addressing what happens
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  - when too many voices are competing for our
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  - attention.
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  - You know, we live in a world filled
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  - with
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  - opinions.
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  - Good ones, bad ones,
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  - it it doesn't matter.
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  - Everyone has one. Right?
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  - Between social media influencers telling us what success
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  - looks like, to news outlets telling us what
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  - to fear,
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  - or whether it's friends telling us what we
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  - should do
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  - with the best intentions.
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  - And the worst can be even our own
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  - thoughts constantly competing for our attention.
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  - With all of that going on,
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  - sometimes it's difficult to know which voice to
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  - trust.
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  - And God's voice can seem
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  - lost in the noise.
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  - But the scripture tells us in John ten
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  - twenty seven that my sheep
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  - listen to my voice.
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  - I know them, and they follow me.
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  - Now
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  - one of the things I want to address
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  - here is that
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  - the way that we
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  - follow
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  - the divine one's voice
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  - is not just through prayer, but his word
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  - This sometimes arduous act
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  - can be
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  - the difference between
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  - making a good decision
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  - and one that's detrimental.
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  - Taking
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  - the time to be intentional,
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  - to read and apply what God's word says
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  - is the total game changer
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  - because it
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  - works against
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  - when we're feeling fear, when we're feeling doubt.
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  - And it's the things that provides the peace
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  - that surpasses
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  - all understanding, if you will.
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  - It's it's the peace that doesn't make any
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  - sense in the midst of everything you're going
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  - through.
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  - So
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  - that being said,
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  - let's pray.
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  - Heavenly Father,
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  - there are so many voices competing for our
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  - attention every day.
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  - Opinions,
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  - expectations,
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  - fears, and distractions
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  - all demand space in our minds.
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  - Help us quiet the noise and recognize your
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  - voice above every other voice.
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  - Teach us to value your wisdom
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  - more than popular opinion and your truth more
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  - than temporary trends.
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  - Draw us close to you
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  - so much so that we become familiar with
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  - the sound of your leading.
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  - And we will bless you in Jesus' name.
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  - Well,
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