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Daily Prayer 04-17-25 · The Early Morning Praise Party w/ Sherry Mackey

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  Speaker 1: This morning, y'all, I was just reflecting on the goodness
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  Speaker 1: of God, and I want to pray about that today, Father, God,
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  Speaker 1: in the name of Jesus. Today we acknowledge that you
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  Speaker 1: are good, not just in what you do, but just
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  Speaker 1: in who you are. Your goodness is not fleeting, is
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  Speaker 1: not changing. We can trust that it's steady, that it's unfailing,
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  Speaker 1: and that it's ever present. Today, God, we take the
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  Speaker 1: time to remember just how good you've been in our lives.
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  Speaker 1: You were good when you formed the world out of nothing.
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  Speaker 1: You were good when you created us in your image.
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  Speaker 1: You were good when you breathe life into our dust,
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  Speaker 1: loving us before we ever made the choice to serve
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  Speaker 1: you or even love you back. You were good when
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  Speaker 1: you led your people out of slavery part of the
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  Speaker 1: Red Sea and allowed them to walk on dry land,
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  Speaker 1: even destroying their enemies. You were good when you made
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  Speaker 1: a way where they're seen to have been no way.
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  Speaker 1: You were good when they wondered and you stayed guiding
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  Speaker 1: them with a cloud by day and fire by now. God,
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  Speaker 1: you provided manner and the wilderness, water from the rock,
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  Speaker 1: mercy even for their grumbling hearts. God, today we're so
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  Speaker 1: grateful that you're still good when you whisper peace into
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  Speaker 1: our ancients and minds, when you bring comfort into our
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  Speaker 1: broken hearts. When you open doors, we didn't even know
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  Speaker 1: the knock on. When you closed doors, we never would
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  Speaker 1: have even had the strength to walk away from on
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  Speaker 1: our own. God, you are good when the sun is shining,
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  Speaker 1: when prayers are answered, when healing comes, just like your promise,
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  Speaker 1: when we experience your favor and the blessings overflow. God,
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  Speaker 1: you are good. But you're also good in the waiting. God.
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  Speaker 1: You're good in the valley's God in the moments when
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  Speaker 1: we don't understand God, because even then you're near to us.
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  Speaker 1: You never leave us, You never forsake us. You were
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  Speaker 1: good when you're sitting Jesus, not to condemn the world,
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  Speaker 1: but to save the world. You were good when he
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  Speaker 1: touched the leoper. Good when he welcomed the outcast, lifted
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  Speaker 1: the head of the ashamed, and called the children close
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  Speaker 1: to him. You were good when he went to cavalry.
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  Speaker 1: You were good when he took on our said our shame,
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  Speaker 1: our punishment, and then poort our forgiveness for us instead.
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  Speaker 1: And now, Lord, you are good to us in a
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  Speaker 1: thousand ways, every single day, and every breath we take,
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  Speaker 1: and the kindness of a friend, and the laughter of children,
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  Speaker 1: and the meals on our table, and provision for our
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  Speaker 1: lives in the strength you give us to face another day,
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  Speaker 1: and the promise that nothing, not life or death, not
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  Speaker 1: height nor death, can separate us from your love. God,
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  Speaker 1: Let us never take your goodness for granted. Open our
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  Speaker 1: eyes to see it. God, even in small things, a sunrise,
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  Speaker 1: a quiet moment, a song that stirs our soul, remind
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  Speaker 1: us that goodness and mercy are following us, even when
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  Speaker 1: we feel pursued by fear and sorrow. Lord, you are good,
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  Speaker 1: and you've always been good. We trusted you will continue
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  Speaker 1: to be good in our lives. Your goodness is not
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  Speaker 1: just what you do, it's who you are. So God,
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  Speaker 1: we praise you for it. We rest in it, we
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  Speaker 1: rejoice in it, and we thank you with heart filled
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  Speaker 1: with gratitude that you are good in Jesus' name. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: A man