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Why Is It So Hard to Slow Down? | Walking in Spiritual Discernment · Divine515 Podcast

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  - Here is today's prayer.
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  - Hello, and welcome to today's daily prayer.
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  - Today, we're talking about
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  - why it's so hard for us to slow
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  - down. And
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  - the scriptural base that I wanna pull from
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  - today comes from Psalms forty six and ten
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  - and says, be still and know that I
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  - am God.
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  - You know,
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  - I think we would all agree
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  - that life
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  - has,
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  - as the years go by, gotten
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  - a whole lot busier.
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  - You know, I often say that
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  - if you
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  - want to increase your workload and go fast
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  - with life,
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  - get married because that'll give you some responsibility.
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  - And then if you wanna go faster,
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  - have some children because
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  - tending to their needs
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  - will make the time go by real fast.
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  - Right?
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  - And so while we're trying to tackle
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  - this thing called life,
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  - it can come with a lot
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  - of
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  - movement.
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  - And and the idea of sitting still is
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  - not always,
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  - maybe conducive or makes sense to us when
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  - we're trying to to complete all of the
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  - daily tasks.
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  - And so consequently,
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  - we fill every moment with noise, whether it's
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  - music or, you know, listening to something, scrolling,
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  - or whatever the distraction is.
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  - Stillness
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  - feels uncomfortable
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  - because we've forgotten how to simply be with
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  - God.
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  - And
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  - I wanna say that it can be really
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  - challenging
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  - because
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  - in an earlier,
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  - prayer episode, we talked about how
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  - the prophet Elijah,
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  - he was emotionally and spiritually tapped out, and
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  - God gave him an earthquake
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  - and fire.
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  - And yet it wasn't in either of these
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  - things
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  - that God
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  - spoke where Elijah could hear him, but in
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  - the still
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  - quiet
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  - voice.
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  - And the key here to remember is is
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  - that
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  - life is going to
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  - raise
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  - your volume.
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  - The volume of life is is going to
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  - increase. And so in order for us to
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  - survive
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  - and and and and work through it
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  - successfully,
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  - we have to be intentional about turning it
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  - down
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  - and
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  - focusing
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  - on being quiet
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  - before God.
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  - And when we do,
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  - not only will he
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  - reinforce
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  - our peace,
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  - build our trust,
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  - but we'll be able to feel his heart
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  - and know what his plan is
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  - and have the comfort that we need to
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  - be able to deal with whatever it is
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  - we're facing.
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  - That being said, let's pray together.
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  - Heavenly father, teach us to slow down.
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  - Help us
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  - resist the urge to constantly stay busy or
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  - distracted.
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  - Let stillness become a place of intimacy instead
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  - of discomfort.
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  - Quiet our racing thoughts and help us to
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  - rest in your presence.
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  - Remind us that we don't have to earn
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  - your love
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  - because you are love.
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  - We just simply need to remain close to
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  - you.
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  - In Jesus' name, amen.
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