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Feeling Disconnected? Prayer Restores What Busyness Steals | Stronger Together · Divine515 Podcast

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  - What if prayer became more than something you
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  - do?
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  - What if it became the way you live?
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  - Life can be overwhelming.
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  - The pressures are real.
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  - The questions
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  - are constant.
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  - And sometimes,
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  - it feels like you're carrying more than you
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  - were ever meant to carry alone.
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  - The inner chamber was created for those who
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  - desire more than occasional inspiration.
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  - It's a community for believers who want to
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  - build a consistent prayer life,
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  - Inside the inner chamber, you'll find
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  - You don't have to figure out your prayer
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  - journey alone.
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  - Come discover what happens when believers gather with
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  - one purpose,
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  - to know God
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  - more deeply and walk with him more closely.
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  - Visit divine515.com
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  - to learn more and become part of the
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  - inner chamber community.
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  - Prayer isn't simply something we do. It's how
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  - we walk with God every day.
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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 divine five one five
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  - daily prayers with Val Rocha.
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  - I'm your host,
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  - Val Roche, and today's prayer topic
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  - is addressing
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  - if you're feeling disconnected,
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  - how prayer restores what busyness steals.
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  - Scripture text comes from John fifteen five and
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  - says, I am the vine. You are the
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  - branches.
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  - If you remain in me and I in
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  - you,
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  - you will bear much fruit. Apart from me,
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  - you can do nothing.
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  - Well, we've been talking about this bare
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  - called life
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  - and have it has
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  - a way of pulling us in every direction.
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  - We wake up thinking about work, responsibilities,
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  - appointments, and deadlines,
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  - and we go to sleep stressed out about
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  - the same things.
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  - And before we know it, another day has
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  - passed, and our time of God has been
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  - replaced by everything else demanding our attention.
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  - Spiritual distance,
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  - therefore,
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  - rarely happens because we stop loving God, but
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  - more often it happens because busyness slows,
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  - slows us down and crowds our intimacy.
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  - And
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  - what I liken it to
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  - is,
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  - you know,
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  - it it's almost like we're a a a
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  - durable or a
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  - rat on a wheel. You You know, you
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  - just you just keep going, going, going, but
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  - you don't feel like you're
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  - getting anywhere.
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  - And yet you're you're
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  - emotionally,
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  - shattered in all in all directions.
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  - And you're feeling like
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  - you're kinda almost emotionally flatlining. Right? Or maybe
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  - you've been going through so much,
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  - so much that you just feel like
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  - you're almost numb
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  - to to,
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  - to anything.
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  - And so, therefore, many of us make the
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  - mistake
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  - of thinking that spiritual activity
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  - is spiritual connection. Right? If I check off
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  - enough boxes, if I go to church or
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  - if I,
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  - listen to a podcast or read encouraging posts,
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  - you know, that'll be enough.
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  - But
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  - one of the things that I
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  - observed is that
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  - it's so easy to wanna check those boxes
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  - out of routine and out of tradition.
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  - You know, our greatest commodity
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  - is our time.
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  - And if we are going through the motions,
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  - for example, of going to church, but you're
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  - not taking the time to be engaged in
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  - the service,
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  - then you're missing out on what the service
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  - has to offer
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  - because
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  - there is power in praise and worship.
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  - I I,
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  - I tell the story,
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  - to someone. I was telling a story to
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  - someone not too long ago.
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  - They were saying that they were feeling really,
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  - really stressed and they almost started to,
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  - you know, kinda speak negative,
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  - into the atmosphere. And I said, you know,
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  - let's try praising God
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  - out
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  - loud. Because if you praise God out loud,
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  - it's a proof of fact. You don't have
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  - time to think negative because your mouth is
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  - thinking about what you're saying when you're, when
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  - you're praising God.
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  - Just like if you're speaking negative things,
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  - your your your mind doesn't have time to
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  - take on positive things because that's where the
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  - energy is going there.
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  - And so the person
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  - followed the the strategy
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  - that I, shared with them. And sure enough,
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  - they they did feel better,
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  - and it did give them some hope.
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  - So I would encourage you,
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  - you know, if you're going to
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  - spend the time and the effort to go
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  - to church,
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  - try not to get distracted by
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  - the culprit, the the cell phone. Right?
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  - I mean,
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  - the scrolling and the Facebook and the social
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  - media, it's always gonna be there. Right?
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  - But
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  - give God some quality time because when he
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  - gives to us, it's always quality time. Everything
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  - he gives us is is quality. So don't
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  - don't go through the motions. Right? Don't check
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  - don't just check off a box. Be intentional
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  - about it.
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  - Because,
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  - when we do
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  - and when we are,
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  - we'll find that it'll deepen our relationship and
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  - our hearts will become deeply rooted in him.
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  - And without realizing it,
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  - when we don't do that,
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  - we begin living off of yesterday's strength instead
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  - of today's relationship.
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  - I would,
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  - beg to say that you can't live off
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  - of,
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  - today's
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  - yesterday's strength if you were already exasperated
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  - and on yesterday. You're not gonna be refilled
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  - today because you don't have anything to pull
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  - from. So
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  - take a moment
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  - and,
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  - reconnect
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  - through prayer because
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  - it is the source of our strength. Because
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  - number one, it'll allow us to be able
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  - to get all of that negativity out, but
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  - it also allows us to,
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  - now this takes some some effort, but it
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  - allows us to be able to to be
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  - quiet.
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  - Right? Sometimes
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  - God can't speak to us because of the
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  - noise, all of the voices in our head.
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  - And in a a previous,
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  - a different episode, I talked about the prophet
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  - Elijah and how
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  - he was going through some immense
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  - challenges.
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  - And,
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  - God allowed the the fire and the thunder
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  - and all of these things to come, but
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  - he wasn't in any of those things. It
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  - wasn't until Elijah got in a place where
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  - he could quiet himself, the noises and the
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  - voices
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  - in his head that God was able to
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  - to speak to him. And,
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  - I was liking it too when you're talking
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  - to someone. If the person is talking to
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  - you and you're walking around the room and,
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  - you know, jumping up and down and doing
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  - cartwheels and all kinds of things, well,
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  - that's gonna be very distracting to that person.
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  - Now, of course, I'm, you know, I'm I'm
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  - I'm being humorous here, but
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  - I'm sure you get the the point. The
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  - point is is that when you're talking to
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  - someone,
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  - you you want them to give
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  - their attention to you.
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  - So when you're talking to God, he wants
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  - you to give your attention to him.
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  - And,
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  - yes, he does understand what you're going through,
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  - but it's about the connection.
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  - Make the effort to make the connection
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  - because every connection with God reminds us we
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  - were never created to simply work for him.
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  - Right? We're we're we're not robots. It's about
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  - being collaborators
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  - with him
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  - and
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  - connecting
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  - with him.
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  - I I would say that
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  - if we really understood how much the heavenly
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  - father loved us, we would be using every
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  - moment we had
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  - to
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  - connect with him because that's where the secret
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  - is. That's where the intimacy is. When we,
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  - take the time to,
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  - find out what his word has to say,
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  - find out where his heart is. Right?
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  - Because we were created to walk with him.
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  - And as we remain connected in Christ,
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  - peace replaces
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  - will replace the pressure,
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  - and wisdom will replace the confusion.
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  - And when all of that comes
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  - together,
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  - God
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  - sculpts,
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  - creates, defines
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  - our character, and then we'll see that fruit
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  - begins growing naturally in our lives. So
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  - take heart.
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  - Know that prayer changes everything.
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  - That being said, let's go to the throne.
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  - Father God, thank you for inviting us into
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  - a relationship that is personal and life giving.
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  - Father, forgive us for allowing busyness to replace
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  - intimacy.
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  - Draw us back into your presence and help
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  - us remain connected to you throughout each day.
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  - Let prayer become the rhythm of our life
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  - and your word become the foundation
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  - beneath every decision we make.
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  - And teach us to depend on you in
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  - every season.
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  - And we will bless you in Jesus name.
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  - Amen.
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  - A thriving prayer life is built one day
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  - at a time.
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  - And so if you're ready to continue growing
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  - beyond today's prayer,
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  - come and visit us at divine515.com
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  - and discover how the inner chamber prayer community
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  - can help you develop a consistent lifestyle of
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  - prayer and give you some some strategies.
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  - And as always, remember,
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  - prayer isn't simply something we do.
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  - It's how we walk with God every day.