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- 0:04SPEAKER_00: Today, as we begin, take a couple deep breaths and give yourself 10 seconds to get your mind and body to a place of focused prayer.
- 0:15SPEAKER_00: Paul writes in Colossians 3 12, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience.
- 0:25SPEAKER_00: All of these things start in our heart, but work their way out in our behavior and interactions with people.
- 0:33SPEAKER_00: I don't know about you, but there are days I wake up and find myself dressed in anything but these virtues.
- 0:41SPEAKER_00: Today, let's ask God to clothe us in these virtues.
- 0:47SPEAKER_00: Can we start with prayer together?
- 0:50SPEAKER_00: Lord, thank you for your compassion toward me.
- 0:54SPEAKER_00: Thank you for your patience toward me.
- 0:58SPEAKER_00: Thank you for not leaving me in my mess or habits or tendencies.
- 1:05SPEAKER_00: Thank you for empowering me toward compassion, toward kindness, toward humility, toward gentleness, toward patience.
- 1:18SPEAKER_00: Thank you, Lord, that you show these things to me first.
- 1:22SPEAKER_00: Grow me and clothe me in these things today.
- 1:27SPEAKER_00: Now, pause for 60 seconds and ask God to make your heart compassionate, kind, humble, gentle, and patient today.
- 1:38SPEAKER_00: Wait on the Lord for an interaction coming up in your day or week where He wants to help you exercise this kind of behavior that might be difficult.
- 1:49SPEAKER_00: Lord, show us where you want to help us this week.
- 2:46SPEAKER_00: Talk to God about what makes it hard or feel unfair to show compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, or patience there.
- 2:57SPEAKER_00: Then ask the Lord for that supernatural help.
- 4:05SPEAKER_00: Shape ours to become more like yours day by day by day.
- 4:10SPEAKER_00: Amen.