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Daily Prayer 06-19-25 · The Early Morning Praise Party w/ Sherry Mackey

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  Speaker 1: I am Sherry Mackie at his time for us to
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  Speaker 1: go to God in prayer. You know today is Juneteenth,
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  Speaker 1: a day of freedom, a day of remembrance. So Heavenly Father,
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  Speaker 1: in the name of Jesus Christ, we come before you
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  Speaker 1: with hearts full full of gratitude, full of grief, and
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  Speaker 1: at the same time, God, full of hope. We thank
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  Speaker 1: you Lord for Juneteenth, a day that marks the breaking
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  Speaker 1: of chains, a day when the echoes of liberty finally
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  Speaker 1: reached the last of the enslaved.
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  Speaker 2: The Lord.
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  Speaker 1: Even as we celebrate, we also grieve. We grieve for
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  Speaker 1: the sin of the world. We grieve for the sin
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  Speaker 1: of slavery. We grieve for the centuries of dehumanization, for
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  Speaker 1: the stolen names, the stolen families, the stolen dreams.
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  Speaker 2: We grieve.
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  Speaker 1: But at the same time we do not grieve without hope.
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  Speaker 1: Our hope, our trust, our faith, our confidence is in you.
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  Speaker 1: For you are the God who sees, the God, God
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  Speaker 1: who delivers Israel from Pharaoh's hand, the God who breaks
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  Speaker 1: every chain, spiritual, physical, and generational. Lord, we remember, We
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  Speaker 1: remember those who waited, who labored under oppression, who prayed
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  Speaker 1: through pain, who sang songs of freedom, even when freedom
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  Speaker 1: was only a whisper on the wind. God, we honor
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  Speaker 1: their endurance, their faith, their fight. Let us never, God,
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  Speaker 1: forget the cost of dignity denied.
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  Speaker 2: But God, you are a redeemer.
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  Speaker 1: You bring beauty from ashes, You lift the heads of
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  Speaker 1: the oppressant, called them your been loved. So today God,
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  Speaker 1: we thank you, not just for a date on the
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  Speaker 1: calendar before the truth. It represents that freedom delayed is
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  Speaker 1: not freedom denied. Because your justice is short, your timing
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  Speaker 1: is perfect. And yet, Lord, we confess there's still work
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  Speaker 1: to be done in our city, in our nation, in
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  Speaker 1: our country, in our world. God, there are still systems
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  Speaker 1: of injustice, still hearts hardened by hate.
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  Speaker 2: So God we cry out to you today.
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  Speaker 1: Let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like the
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  Speaker 1: mighty stream. God, teach us to be bridge builders, to
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  Speaker 1: speak truth and love, to act justly, to love mercy,
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  Speaker 1: to walk humbly with you.
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  Speaker 2: God, let Juneteenth not only remind.
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  Speaker 1: Us of what was broken, but awaken us to what.
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  Speaker 2: Can still be restored.
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  Speaker 1: God, let it stir within us a holy anger toward
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  Speaker 1: injustice and a holy love for all people made.
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  Speaker 2: In your image. We pray especially for healing.
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  Speaker 1: God, healing for the descendants of the enslaved, Healing for
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  Speaker 1: this nation still marked by division. God, Healing for hearts
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  Speaker 1: wounded by generations of silence and pain.
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  Speaker 2: God, let your church rise up as a voice for
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  Speaker 2: the voiceless.
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  Speaker 1: Let our faith and not be passive but prophetic. Let
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  Speaker 1: our worship not be hollow but holy and.
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  Speaker 2: Committed God to justice.
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  Speaker 1: Because whom the sun sets free is free indeed, and
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  Speaker 1: that freedom must flow through every heart, every home, every nation.
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  Speaker 2: God, we thank you Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: Our Savior, our liberator, our peace. You bore the cross
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  Speaker 1: to bring true freedom. Thank you for the freedom of salvation.
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  Speaker 2: Today. In your mighty Match's name, we pray. Amen. Amen, Amen,