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A Reset for a New Month! · In the Stillness Podcast

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  Hey everyone, it's friendsly. Happy Sunday, it's the Sabbath.
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  I hope that this podcast finds you in an awesome part of.
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  Your day. And I'm so grateful that y'all
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  are tuning in. I honestly cannot.
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  Believe it's already February. Not gonna lie, January felt like
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  it lasted a century, but somehow we're already one month into
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  2026 and that just blows my mind.
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  But I'll be so real with y'all I.
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  Kind of woke up in a funk this morning and it surprised me
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  because when I was going to bed last night I was so excited for
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  a new month and I. Love February but y'all it has.
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  Been so cold in Texas and I'm going to sound like such a.
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  Baby to. Anyone in the north or anywhere
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  where it's? Usually cold.
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  Who is listening to this? I would always say I liked.
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  The cold and whenever it fits the season, but I've.
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  Come to realize, I like it for a short.
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  Season just long enough to get my fix and then I'm ready for.
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  Warmer weather so. Seeing that it was 20.
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  Degrees outside, probably. Affected my mood a little, which
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  sounds so. Silly, but it was pretty quick
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  that the Lord. Checked my heart, I was asking
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  him as I was feeling his emotions like Lord renew my
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  mind. Romans 12/2 says to transform or
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  ask God to transform us by the renewing of our mind.
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  And Lord, just help me shift my perspective and remind me of
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  your presence and all of the many blessings that you have
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  lavished on me. So as I.
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  Sat with him, was reflecting for a.
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  Little bit his. Goodness and grace began to
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  overwhelm me almost immediately, in the best way.
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  What started as? A funky, just weather driven
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  mood quickly lost its grip and control on me, so I was reminded
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  of a few powerful truths that I'm going to remind y'all of
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  right now. One.
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  We get to wake up. To a clean slate every single
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  day. His mercies are new every
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  morning, as Lamentations 322 says.
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  Jesus loves us so deeply that he gave his life for you.
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  And nothing, absolutely nothing that you do.
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  Or fail to do. Can separate you from or.
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  Change the Father's love for you.
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  It does not hinge on what you get done that day, your
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  performance or your feelings and that truth alone like.
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  We gotta preach. That we gotta remind ourselves.
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  So as we. Step into a new month As we come
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  to the end of a week, you might be feeling weary and tired, or
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  maybe you're feeling rested. I.
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  Hope that. You're feeling rested.
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  But either. Way I want to remind you of
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  that. Today, let the truth wash.
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  Over you and let it. Refresh your soul so before
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  opening. My Bible and doing my quiet time
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  and then thinking ahead to what I wanted this podcast to be.
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  This morning I just prayed and asked.
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  God to. Point me to something specific
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  that he wanted me to share with you guys.
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  I was honestly envisioning just reading a Psalms, but with it
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  being the start of a new month, it makes so much sense that.
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  This is the passage. That he led me to.
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  So we are going to be in Isaiah chapter 49.
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  Verses 8 through. 18 And this is titled The Restoration of
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  Israel. This is what the Lord says.
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  In the time of my. Favor I will.
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  Answer you, and in the day of salvation I will.
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  Help you I will keep. You and will make you to be a
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  covenant for the people, to restore the land and to reassign
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  its desolate inheritances to. Say to the.
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  Captives come out, and to those in darkness be.
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  Free, they will feed beside the roads.
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  And find pasture on every barren hill.
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  They will neither hunger nor thirst.
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  Nor will the desert. He or the sun beat down on them.
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  He who has compassion on them will guide them and lead them
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  beside springs of water. I will turn all my mountains
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  into roads and my highways. Will be raised up.
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  See, they will. Come from afar, some from the
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  north, some from the West, some from the region of Aswan.
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  Shout for joy. You heavens rejoice.
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  You Earth burst. Into song you mountains.
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  For the. Lord comforts his people and
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  will have compassion on his afflicted ones, but Zion said.
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  The Lord has. Forsaken me.
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  The Lord has forgotten me. Can a mother forget the?
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  Baby at her. Breast and have no compassion on
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  the child she is born, though she may.
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  Forget I will. Not.
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  Forget you see. I have engraved you on the palms
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  of my hands. Your walls are.
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  Ever before me, your children hasten back, and those.
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  Who laid you? Waste apart from you.
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  Lift up your eyes and look around.
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  All your children gather and come to you.
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  As surely as I live, declares the Lord.
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  You will wear them all as ornaments.
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  You will put them on like a bride.
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  That passage. I mean, I don't remember the
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  last time I read that passage. But it just.
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  Oh, it is amazing. So as.
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  We reflect on this and go through it.
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  I want to remind just listeners, Isaiah.
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  Was a prophet. Long before Jesus came, and here
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  he's speaking to the nation of Israel.
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  God's. Chosen nation and people, and
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  they were under the covenant and promise, but.
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  Later we. See in Romans 11 that Paul is
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  explaining that Gentiles and non Jews, they which is mostly
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  likely most of us listening, they have been grafted in by
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  faith in Jesus. So we are the.
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  Grafted in branches because most of us are not a part of the
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  nation of Israel, but now. By faith.
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  We are included in those saved in Christ.
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  We belong to that family of believers.
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  So that means that the promise of restoration in this passage,
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  it's not distant or exclusive. It's ours.
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  Too. And verse 12 it reminds us and
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  reveals. God's heart for all.
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  People and nations. The gospel was never meant to
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  stop with one group. It's meant to expand and be
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  inclusive and intentional. So what?
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  Stood out to me most in this passage is.
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  God's posture towards his people.
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  Let me remind. You.
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  He cares y'all. He sees you.
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  He hears you. You are not a burden to him and
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  notice the certainty of his words.
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  It's not if he will answer. You but he.
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  Will answer you he. Will help you.
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  He will keep you. God is faithful to His.
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  Promises he has never once given, given us a reason to
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  doubt him, even when we've been unfaithful, when we.
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  Have shifted our. Attention to other things in
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  this. World or chased after pleasures.
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  That will never fully. Satisfy.
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  He has remained the same. Hebrews 13/8.
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  Tells us that. Jesus Christ.
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  Is the. Same yesterday, today and
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  forever y'all. He has been patient.
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  He's always. Waiting.
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  His arms have never. Closed off to you.
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  They're wide open, so you were never.
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  Created to live. Feeling chained down,
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  constantly, heavy or worn out and overwhelmed by.
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  This life's. Troubles and this.
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  Passage is such a reset for us because it is so easy to.
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  Slip into the routine. Y'all I fall a prey to it every.
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  Day and I had This is why I have to renew my mind.
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  There are constantly different appointments and
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  responsibilities we have. Lists to check.
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  Off and to do things, but feeling like everything depends
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  on us and our strength was never God's design.
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  Because he calls us to be free. And when scripture is talking
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  about. Pasture I just.
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  Envisioned these wide open fields, rolling fields where we
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  can. Breathe a space.
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  To be nourished, freedom to rest and enjoy.
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  This is not confinement, we're not put in a box.
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  This is not pressure. And it also promises that you
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  will not be drained by. Heat or exhaustion?
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  From the sun, you're meant to. Be refreshed in God's.
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  Presence. Which is always with us.
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  We are sealed with this spirit as a believer.
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  It strengthens you it. Fuels you.
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  It empowers you to. Live in this freedom.
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  And it also reminded me a lot of Psalm 23 whenever it's talking
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  about leading. Beside the still waters, because
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  God is our Good Shepherd, He goes ahead of us.
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  He's always showing us where to step and leading us into peace,
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  not chaos and not overwhelming. It makes me think back to
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  whenever I I grew up going to Colorado in the summers,
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  whenever I'm hiking up a mountain.
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  Some trails were rocky and there were uneven surfaces, but
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  instead of looking at the entire path ahead, I learned to train
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  my mind and my eyes to focus on one step at a time.
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  And I have such a clear image of just being a little girl and
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  letting my. Father, walk ahead.
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  Of me as he led me up this trail, I trusted him to guide me
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  up safely and I believe that's. The picture.
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  That God wants to give. Us here too.
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  Keep your eyes on your father. Listen for his.
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  Voice trust his lead because. He knows.
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  He created the. Terrain that you're walking on,
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  he knows the best. Way to get you.
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  Up that mountain and to get you down that mountain.
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  Do not. Fear the path because he's.
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  Walking with you, trying to navigate life alone without him.
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  I it's just. Exhausting.
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  I can't even imagine how unsettling it would.
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  Be if I. Could not be reminded that my
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  father is with me. When God says.
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  Can a mother? Forget the baby at her breast,
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  y'all. He's speaking straight to our
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  deepest fears. Because if.
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  Even a human mother. A mother.
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  Who? Can still sin and mess up and
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  forget if she can love her. Child that fiercely.
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  How much more? Does your perfect father love
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  you? He does not forget, He does not
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  overlook. He does not misplace.
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  His kids, you are his. He delights.
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  In you following him, you're not a burden.
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  You're his beloved, so here's a. Few questions to let sink in and
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  reflect on if you've been feeling forgotten or alone.
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  Have you been meditating on truth?
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  Or have you quietly lost sight of who God is?
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  And how? Deeply He cares for you.
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  Do you believe he is your father?
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  A father, that is. More than able and willing to
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  meet every single physical, emotional and spiritual need
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  that you have. And are you living with the
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  freedom and joy that comes from being fully known and fully
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  loved? And is that evident to those
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  around you? Is there proof of that?
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  Because our gratitude it. Shows up in joy, in the
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  rejoicing, in the worship and praise in our day-to-day.
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  Life because. We are loved completely and
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  constantly. So let's pray real quick.
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  Heavenly Father, thank you for bringing to mind that we are
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  seen and loved and never forgotten.
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  Would you continue renewing our minds with the truth, refreshing
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  our hearts and our souls where we've grown tired?
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  Maybe. Complacent or weary, God, would
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  you help us to walk? Fully in freedom, abiding in you
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  and trusting you. Step.
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  By step by step, we receive your free peace.
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  And care today. Father we are.
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  So undeserving of your. Love, but we.
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  Thank you that nothing nothing in this.
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  World could separate. You could separate us.
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  From your love or from you, we pray this all in your precious
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  name, Jesus, Amen. OK.
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  Well have a wonderful rest of your Sunday.
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  This was such an awesome reset for me and I pray it.
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  Is for y'all too. And I will see y'all on
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  tomorrow's episode. Bye y'all.