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Prayer for Our Country: Meditation from 1 Timothy 2:1-4 #161 · Growing Closer to God with Guided Meditation

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  Pastor Robert Young: Welcome to this week's guided Christian meditation.
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  Pastor Robert Young: Today's meditation is titled Prayer for Our Country.
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  Pastor Robert Young: Our scripture is from 1 Timothy 2, verses 1-4.
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  Pastor Robert Young: But first, proper worship of God requires us to be completely involved and free from sin in mind, body and spirit.
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  Pastor Robert Young: Let's prepare our hearts by repenting of any known sin that might be in our lives.
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  Pastor Robert Young: Now we can enter into worship of our Heavenly Father by focusing on Psalms 100, verses 1-3, where it tells us to shout for joy to the Lord, all the earth.
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  Pastor Robert Young: Worship the Lord with gladness, come before him with joyful songs.
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  Pastor Robert Young: Take a moment to lift up your voice in praise and thanksgiving to our Heavenly Father, who is worthy of all honor and glory.
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  Pastor Robert Young: Before we start to reflect on 1 Timothy 2, verses 1-4, let's prepare our mind by closing our eyes and taking a few deep breaths as we invite the presence of God to fill us.
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  Pastor Robert Young: Now take a few deep breaths in for a count of seven.
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  Pastor Robert Young: Hold the breath for a count of five and slowly exhale for a count of seven.
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  Pastor Robert Young: Repeat the
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  Pastor Robert Young: exercise
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  Pastor Robert Young: Now let's prepare our bodies with muscle relaxation exercises.
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  Pastor Robert Young: glutes, lightly simply tense each muscle group for three seconds and then release the muscle.
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  Pastor Robert Young: As area, always lightly don't hold your breath for this portion of the meditation.
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  Pastor Robert Young: Let's begin with the shoulders, lightly.
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  Pastor Robert Young: Lightly tense the calf muscles for a count of three
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  Pastor Robert Young: .
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  Speaker 2: Now release.
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  Pastor Robert Young: Moving upward to the hamstrings, the quads and the glutes Lightly tense for three seconds, now release.
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  Pastor Robert Young: Moving to Yet, chest and the back area Lightly tense for three seconds, now release.
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  Pastor Robert Young: Finally, moving to the arms and the shoulders Lightly again, tense these muscle groups for three seconds, now release.
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  Pastor Robert Young: Now that we are prepared
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  Pastor Robert Young: in mind, in our body and in our spirit questions:
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  Pastor Robert Young: let's begin to think about 1 Timothy 2, verses 1 through 4, which
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  Pastor Robert Young: says I exhort, therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions and giving
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  Pastor Robert Young: of thanks be made for all men, for
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  Pastor Robert Young: and charge of everything e e
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  Pastor Robert Young: for all that are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceful life in all godliness and honesty, and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty, for this is good and acceptable in the sight of God, our Savior, who will have all men to be saved and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.
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  Pastor Robert Young: This verse reminds us that, no matter who is in charge, that God is ultimately in charge and that God, as the scripture says, has the heart of the king in his hand and can change it any way he desires.
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  Pastor Robert Young: We in America are not under a king, but under a president, so we should pray for our leaders, whether we like or voted for that leader or not.
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  Pastor Robert Young: It's important to notice that it was the Roman government that ruled Israel at the time Paul wrote this letter.
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  Pastor Robert Young: Yet Paul tells them to pray for not only the religious leaders of Israel, but for the heads of the ruling government, again knowing that God can change the heart of any leader if God so desires.
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  Pastor Robert Young: Let's take two minutes to reflect on the following questions 1.
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  Pastor Robert Young: Have I prayed for the presidential candidate's heart to be more Christ-like?
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  Pastor Robert Young: 2.
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  Pastor Robert Young: Do I really believe that God is ultimately in charge of events happening now?
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  Pastor Robert Young: 3.
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  Pastor Robert Young: Do I trust God more or human effort?
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you for watching, thank you.
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  Pastor Robert Young: Repeat the following affirmation, now and for the next seven days God, the creator of the universe, my Lord, is in charge of everything, and I will trust him.
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  Pastor Robert Young: Is in charge of everything and I will trust Him Again.
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  Pastor Robert Young: God, the creator of the universe, my Lord, is in charge of.
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  Pastor Robert Young: Until it becomes permanent in your spirit.
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  Pastor Robert Young: And know that God can change the heart of any person if he so desires.
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  Pastor Robert Young: If he so desires, walk in spiritual confidence that you are one of God's children and all the loving benefits that come with that designation are available to you.
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  Pastor Robert Young: Amen, thank you, you.