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Letting Go | Trust God’s Next Chapter · Divine515 Podcast

• 0:12
  - 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. Today's prayer focus is how to trust
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  - God's next chapter.
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  - Scripture text comes from Jeremiah twenty nine eleven
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  - and says, I know the plans I have
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  - for you declares the Lord.
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  - You know,
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  - it's
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  - difficult to turn the page when we don't
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  - know what the next chapter holds,
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  - and that's what makes letting go so difficult.
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  - We know what we're releasing,
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  - but we don't always know what we're receiving,
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  - which
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  - is why it requires faith.
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  - And we struggle because we often want God
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  - to reveal what's next before we're willing to
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  - release completely what was.
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  - But faith doesn't always work that way.
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  - Sometimes we have to release it first,
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  - then we discover.
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  - And how prayer helps us is because
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  - although we don't know what comes next, we
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  - can take comfort in knowing that God is
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  - still there.
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  - And that's the foundation,
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  - not certainty about circumstances,
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  - which are subject to change.
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  - Confidence
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  - is in God's presence.
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  - That being said, let's pray.
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  - Father,
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  - we don't know everything the next chapter holds,
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  - but we trust you.
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  - Keep us from returning to what you've helped
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  - us release simply because the future feels unfamiliar.
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  - Give us faith to keep moving forward with
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  - you.
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  - In Jesus' name, amen.
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  - Well,
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  - you don't have to know the whole story
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  - to trust the author.
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  - And
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  - by the way, he does write a very
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  - compelling story.
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  - And if someone you know is standing between
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  - an ending and a beginning,
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  - share this prayer with him.
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  - And remember,
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  - turn the page with God.
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  - He'll always give you a great ending.