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| Why Do I Keep Returning to the Same Struggles? | Walking in Spiritual Discernment · Divine515 Podcast

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  - 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 today's daily prayer.
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  - Our focus today is looking at what happens
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  - when we keep returning to the same struggles.
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  - Scriptural context comes from Romans twelve two and
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  - says be transformed by the renewing of your
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  - mind.
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  - Now I wanna start today's prayer focus by
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  - saying, I don't know about you all, but
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  - I have throughout the years intentionally worked on,
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  - doing things to help keep me spiritually strong,
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  - spiritually healthy,
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  - and to deepen my relationship with God.
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  - This has required a lot of discipline and
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  - a lot of self reflection.
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  - And,
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  - being sometimes brutally honest and and looking at
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  - whatever it is God's revealing doesn't always look
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  - good.
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  - And
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  - because we're human, we're prone to certain habits
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  - and certain things,
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  - certain mindsets.
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  - And
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  - the way that we overcome those things is
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  - by,
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  - constantly,
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  - reading, reciting,
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  - practicing
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  - the word of God, and
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  - staying connected through prayer.
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  - Now
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  - even though I am a
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  - seasoned veteran when it comes to prayer, I
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  - am a strong believer that there's not only
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  - room for growth but you should never
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  - be satisfied at the level that you are
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  - with your relationship with God. You should always
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  - be growing.
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  - And having said that I find it quite
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  - annoying
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  - that despite my best efforts the things that
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  - I thought I had laid on the throne
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  - the thoughts that
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  - I thought that I had
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  - cast out and placed under the uh-uh under
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  - the word of God
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  - made another guest appearance
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  - and and it's like okay are you kidding
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  - me I I just got rid of you
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  - I just placed you on the throne I
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  - I just
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  - spoke the word and and bound that only
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  - to find that it's back. Well,
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  - let me
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  - encourage you to say that
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  - it has to be part of the human
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  - plight. Right?
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  - And although it's annoying,
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  - it's there, I believe, to remind us how
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  - vulnerable we are, but also how powerful God
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  - is in us and how powerful his word
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  - is when we apply it. The scripture tells
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  - us that the only way that we can
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  - bring these thoughts
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  - under subjection is to
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  - renew our mind. And we can only do
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  - that through prayer and the word.
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  - And also by speaking what the word says.
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  - The scripture tells us that death and life
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  - is in the power of the tongue. So
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  - if you're not in the proper mindset,
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  - you're probably not going to be speaking properly,
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  - and might be speaking
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  - negative
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  - or death over yourself
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  - or into your situation versus life.
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  - And so having said that, it's no surprise
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  - that some struggles keep repeating because our habits
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  - and our thought patterns never change.
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  - We pray for transformation while holding onto the
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  - same mindset.
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  - And so
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  - we give God the glory
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  - for knowing that we don't have to do
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  - this thing
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  - on our own. He's given us the tools
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  - and the resources
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  - to overcome
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  - daily.
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  - The trick is to remember
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  - that
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  - the enemy never takes a break so we
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  - can't either. And we are to guide our
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  - mind and our hearts And the only way
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  - we can do that is through God's word
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  - and prayer.
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  - That being said,
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  - let's pray.
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  - Heavenly father,
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  - transform us from the inside
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  - out.
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  - Renew our thinking and help us break unhealthy
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  - patterns.
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  - Teach us to replace lies with truth
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  - and fear with faith.
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  - Let prayer become a place of real change
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  - in our lives.
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  - We don't want temporary
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  - inspiration.
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  - We want and need lasting transformation,
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  - and we will bless you in Jesus' name.
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  - If this was a blessing to you,
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  - continue to follow and grow with us.