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Finding Hope When Life Feels Heavy | Stronger Together · Divine515 Podcast

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  - Have you ever felt like you're carrying a
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  - weight that never seems to get lighter?
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  - Maybe you're doing your best to hold everything
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  - together,
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  - but deep inside you're weary, discouraged, or wondering
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  - where to find the strength to keep going.
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  - If you've been feeling overwhelmed by life's pressures,
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  - struggling to find peace, or longing for a
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  - deeper connection with God during a difficult season,
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  - I want to personally invite you to join
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  - me for a special online webinar.
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  - When life feels heavy,
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  - finding peace, hope, and strength through prayer.
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  - On Sunday, August 16 at 5PM Pacific Standard
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  - Time, we'll come together to discover how prayer
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  - can become more than a response to life's
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  - challenges.
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  - It can become a lifestyle that anchors your
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  - heart, means your hope, and gives you the
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  - strength to face each day with confidence.
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  - During this encouraging webinar, you'll discover how to
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  - find peace even when your circumstances
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  - haven't changed,
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  - overcome common obstacles that keep you from a
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  - consistent prayer life.
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  - It's spirits how prayer renews your perspective and
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  - strengthens your faith.
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  - As the founder of divine five one five
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  - and the author of kneeling at the throne,
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  - my passion is helping believers move beyond simply
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  - believing in the power of prayer to living
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  - a life shaped by
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  - it. My prayer is that you'll leave this
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  - webinar encouraged, equipped, and reminded
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  - that you never have to walk through life's
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  - hardest seasons alone.
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  - This isn't just another webinar about prayer.
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  - It's an opportunity to build
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  - a lifestyle
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  - of prayer that will strengthen you long after
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  - the webinar ends.
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  - Seats are limited, and registration will close once
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  - all seats are filled.
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  - So reserve your seat today by searching when
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  - life feels heavy, finding peace, hope, and strength
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  - through prayer on Eventbrite.
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  - Again, that's Sunday, August 16 at 5PM Pacific
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  - Standard Time. I would love for you to
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  - join us as we discover that no burden
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  - is too heavy when we place it in
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  - the hands of the one who is always
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  - faithful. I'll see you there.
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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 Valerie Rupture.
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  - Today's prayer topic is talking about finding hope
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  - when life feels heavy.
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  - Scriptural text comes from Romans fifteen thirteen and
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  - reads, may the God of hope fill you
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  - with all joy, peace as you trust him.
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  - I wanna start the conversation by saying that
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  - disappointment
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  - has a way of making hope feel
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  - very distant.
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  - I mean, there are times when
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  - it's like it it just never ends.
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  - You try to do everything you can.
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  - You try to
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  - make all the best choices.
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  - You try to help
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  - people.
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  - You try to
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  - do whatever it is you're doing
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  - to
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  - meet the market, if you will.
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  - And yet on every turn, it seems like
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  - you're getting knocked down
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  - and and,
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  - completely,
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  - demolished, if you will.
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  - And it can be very disheartening
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  - because
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  - when you've done all you can do
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  - and the scripture tells you to
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  - stand
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  - in spite of what you're facing,
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  - it seems like a very
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  - impossible task.
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  - So much so where it I would go
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  - as far as to say that
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  - when prayers seem unanswered or circumstances
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  - don't change as quickly as we'd like, it's
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  - easy to become discouraged.
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  - And,
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  - there have been times where, you know, you
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  - may have just felt like I am not
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  - doing this anymore.
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  - God, you have failed me. You're not listening
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  - to me. I throw off my hands. Does
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  - anybody see me? Does anyone care?
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  - Yet our hope is not rooted in
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  - circumstances, but in the faithfulness of God.
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  - And
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  - there are various places in the scriptures
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  - where God talks about, I will never leave
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  - you or forsake you.
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  - But he also says
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  - that man is born of a woman and
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  - full of trouble
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  - and
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  - that
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  - if you're on this planet, you're gonna go
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  - through something.
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  - So it's not that you're not gonna go
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  - through
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  - because you are,
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  - but it's more so the fact that
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  - when you're going through,
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  - what are you anchoring
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  - your hope to? What are you putting your
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  - trust in? Or who are you putting your
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  - trust in?
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  - If you're putting the trust in
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  - in in yourself,
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  - well, that's not gonna work because
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  - you're only gonna be able to go so
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  - far,
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  - and then you're gonna become exasperated.
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  - If you're
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  - looking to outside forces,
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  - they're gonna let you down because
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  - they don't usually operate by the same
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  - belief system.
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  - And if you're looking to God, but you're
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  - looking to God to get you out of
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  - the situation instead of
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  - applying the the the tools or the resources
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  - and and
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  - trying to make that connection and learn what
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  - it is he's really trying to relay in
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  - that moment of challenge,
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  - then you're gonna miss it.
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  - It's gonna feel like
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  - no one cares,
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  - that God doesn't care,
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  - that God doesn't hear you, and what's the
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  - use.
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  - But
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  - what's important to remember is that
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  - Romans tells
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  - us that
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  - not only is God faithful, but he's the
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  - God of our hope.
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  - He's the God that gives us peace.
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  - Jesus said, I give you peace. I leave
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  - it with you, and I give it to
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  - you, Not as the world gets.
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  - Because the world's peace is conditional.
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  - But God's peace
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  - and hope
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  - comes from a love and an understanding
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  - for
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  - his kids and his creation
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  - that goes way beyond what we can ever
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  - ask or think. And that is the thing
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  - that brings us joy. It's not the fact
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  - that
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  - we're gonna get out of the situation quickly,
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  - but that God is in the situation
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  - with us. And he's the thing that gives
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  - us hope in the midst of everything because
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  - every situation, every challenge we face is an
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  - opportunity for him to prove himself strong and
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  - to build trust and character in us.
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  - So
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  - that being said,
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  - let's pray.
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  - Heavenly father, breathe fresh hope into our hearts
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  - today.
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  - Help us lift our eyes above every circumstance
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  - and fix them on your promises.
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  - Strengthen our trust in your faithfulness,
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  - and remind us that you are always working
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  - even when we cannot see.
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  - Fill us with your joy,
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  - your peace,
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  - and your renewed confidence in your goodness,
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  - and we will bless you in Jesus' name.
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  - Today, choose one promise from scripture and carry
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  - it with you as a reminder
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  - that your hope is anchored in Christ.