1 00:00:02,720 --> 00:00:15,600 Speaker 1: Life Audio. Thank you for listening to your Daily Prayer, 2 00:00:16,120 --> 00:00:18,920 Speaker 1: a podcast dedicated to helping you find the words you 3 00:00:19,000 --> 00:00:22,319 Speaker 1: need to connect with your Father in Heaven. No matter 4 00:00:22,360 --> 00:00:24,800 Speaker 1: what is going on in your life today, you can 5 00:00:24,840 --> 00:00:27,960 Speaker 1: trust that God wants to hear from you. Right after 6 00:00:27,960 --> 00:00:30,560 Speaker 1: this short word from our sponsor, you will pray through 7 00:00:30,600 --> 00:00:52,920 Speaker 1: today's prayer for determination when you feel deplated. Together A 8 00:00:53,000 --> 00:00:57,440 Speaker 1: Prayer for Determination when you feel deplated written and read 9 00:00:57,800 --> 00:01:02,920 Speaker 1: by Carrie Iiberger. But he said to me, my grace 10 00:01:03,040 --> 00:01:06,280 Speaker 1: is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect 11 00:01:06,319 --> 00:01:10,759 Speaker 1: in weakness. Therefore I will boast all the more gladly 12 00:01:10,800 --> 00:01:14,560 Speaker 1: about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me. 13 00:01:15,440 --> 00:01:20,720 Speaker 1: Second Corinthians, Well, verse nine. It was the first day 14 00:01:20,720 --> 00:01:24,399 Speaker 1: of school, well for four of my kids anyway. This 15 00:01:24,600 --> 00:01:27,560 Speaker 1: was finally the year week sent our oldest off to college, 16 00:01:28,200 --> 00:01:31,160 Speaker 1: and he still had eight more days at home. Not 17 00:01:31,200 --> 00:01:34,560 Speaker 1: that I'd been woefully accounting, but for the most part, 18 00:01:34,959 --> 00:01:38,280 Speaker 1: summer had suddenly come to a screeching halt, and my 19 00:01:38,400 --> 00:01:42,200 Speaker 1: word was I whooped full on mom mode for several 20 00:01:42,240 --> 00:01:45,880 Speaker 1: super steamy hot months, left time for work hard to 21 00:01:45,920 --> 00:01:49,440 Speaker 1: come by, resulting in a backlog of stuff to get 22 00:01:49,480 --> 00:01:54,440 Speaker 1: done with decreasing days of non negotiable deadlines. I had 23 00:01:54,480 --> 00:01:58,320 Speaker 1: little time to do many things, and my determination was 24 00:01:58,360 --> 00:02:02,200 Speaker 1: about ninety nine percent to play. I just wanted to 25 00:02:02,240 --> 00:02:05,760 Speaker 1: recoup and rest. My husband encouraged me to do just 26 00:02:05,880 --> 00:02:09,200 Speaker 1: that as he busily scurried to catch up on work too. 27 00:02:09,560 --> 00:02:13,280 Speaker 1: But who are we kidding? Sometimes life isn't forgiving enough 28 00:02:13,320 --> 00:02:17,120 Speaker 1: to offer the plush, comforting cushion of extra time and 29 00:02:17,280 --> 00:02:20,880 Speaker 1: refeels the refreshment that we think we need. At which 30 00:02:20,960 --> 00:02:24,000 Speaker 1: times it seems imperative to me to just hunker down 31 00:02:24,680 --> 00:02:29,040 Speaker 1: and dig deep for the determination to meet the pressing demands. 32 00:02:29,680 --> 00:02:35,080 Speaker 1: Do you feel this depleted yet desperately needing determination to 33 00:02:35,200 --> 00:02:39,280 Speaker 1: follow through with something? Maybe your schedule has been more stuffed, 34 00:02:39,760 --> 00:02:43,280 Speaker 1: your mental load has felt heavier, or you've been burying 35 00:02:43,320 --> 00:02:47,399 Speaker 1: greater physical limitations or health struggles in your norm, all 36 00:02:47,440 --> 00:02:50,240 Speaker 1: of which are weary in your body, soul and spirit. 37 00:02:51,120 --> 00:02:54,760 Speaker 1: And surely if you've been weighed down more, the pressure 38 00:02:54,800 --> 00:02:58,840 Speaker 1: to keep up with life feels heavier too. Of course 39 00:02:58,880 --> 00:03:01,880 Speaker 1: it does. There are always things to be tended to 40 00:03:02,000 --> 00:03:05,800 Speaker 1: and done, so I'm sure, like me in your season 41 00:03:05,840 --> 00:03:10,720 Speaker 1: of depletion, you're dying for dose of determination too. I 42 00:03:10,800 --> 00:03:14,120 Speaker 1: wonder have you stopped and asked God what he thinks 43 00:03:14,160 --> 00:03:18,520 Speaker 1: about this predicament, because I'm guilty forgetting at times. But 44 00:03:18,639 --> 00:03:21,920 Speaker 1: I believe if we did, he'd have some comforting truths 45 00:03:21,960 --> 00:03:24,960 Speaker 1: to not only believe some of the burden we've been bearing, 46 00:03:25,600 --> 00:03:29,160 Speaker 1: but also offer us some strength to move forward with 47 00:03:29,280 --> 00:03:33,840 Speaker 1: purposeful progress. For me, there is a word that anchors me, 48 00:03:33,960 --> 00:03:37,200 Speaker 1: both on days of depletion and in moments when I 49 00:03:37,280 --> 00:03:41,640 Speaker 1: need determination. It's a word that offers breaths of both 50 00:03:41,720 --> 00:03:49,840 Speaker 1: peace and refreshment. It's grace, specifically God's grace. I appreciate 51 00:03:49,920 --> 00:03:53,120 Speaker 1: some of the additional detail the Amplified Bible's version of 52 00:03:53,160 --> 00:03:57,400 Speaker 1: Tewod Corinthians twelve, verse nine, which reads, but He has 53 00:03:57,400 --> 00:04:01,360 Speaker 1: said to me, my grace is sufficient for you. My 54 00:04:01,480 --> 00:04:06,440 Speaker 1: loving kindness and my mercy are more than enough, always available, 55 00:04:07,080 --> 00:04:11,720 Speaker 1: regardless of the situation. For my power is being perfected 56 00:04:12,240 --> 00:04:17,120 Speaker 1: and is completed, and shows itself most effectively in your weakness. 57 00:04:17,880 --> 00:04:21,800 Speaker 1: Therefore I will all the more gladly boast in my weaknesses, 58 00:04:22,440 --> 00:04:26,560 Speaker 1: so that the power of Christ they completely enfold and 59 00:04:26,680 --> 00:04:30,640 Speaker 1: may dwell in me. As I try to quickly recover 60 00:04:30,760 --> 00:04:35,000 Speaker 1: from tiring, trying months. I need to quickly remember God 61 00:04:35,080 --> 00:04:39,520 Speaker 1: to grace, because in my weakness, it is His always 62 00:04:39,520 --> 00:04:43,200 Speaker 1: available grace that will replace the feeling of pressure to 63 00:04:43,279 --> 00:04:47,440 Speaker 1: perform with the refreshment of freedom to rest that I 64 00:04:47,480 --> 00:04:52,720 Speaker 1: long for. As I deeply receive the merciful, loving kindness 65 00:04:52,760 --> 00:04:57,240 Speaker 1: of His sufficient grace, it washes over and restores my 66 00:04:57,440 --> 00:05:01,359 Speaker 1: being as the perfect power of the always Spirit enfolds me, 67 00:05:02,279 --> 00:05:06,640 Speaker 1: dwells and swells in me, and then sufficiently strengthens me 68 00:05:07,160 --> 00:05:10,679 Speaker 1: to do whatever He wills for my day, my season, 69 00:05:11,200 --> 00:05:15,600 Speaker 1: and my life. God's grace is sufficient for you too, 70 00:05:16,160 --> 00:05:20,359 Speaker 1: receive it. Receive him. Let the freedom of rest and 71 00:05:20,440 --> 00:05:25,000 Speaker 1: refreshment fill you. His gift of grace is enough for 72 00:05:25,880 --> 00:05:31,280 Speaker 1: and will restore you and your deplated soul. Is grace 73 00:05:31,720 --> 00:05:35,960 Speaker 1: is sufficient for and will replenish dor need it. Strength, 74 00:05:36,839 --> 00:05:40,680 Speaker 1: and God's grace will help you and empower you to 75 00:05:40,720 --> 00:05:45,400 Speaker 1: sufficiently take on that which is right before you, both 76 00:05:45,520 --> 00:05:51,880 Speaker 1: now and forever. Let's pray, God of Grace, you are 77 00:05:51,920 --> 00:05:55,360 Speaker 1: my anger. When I am weak, Your free gift of 78 00:05:55,400 --> 00:06:00,200 Speaker 1: grace comforts my deplated soul and refreshes my weary The 79 00:06:00,240 --> 00:06:04,040 Speaker 1: spirit and knowing that no work my hands can do 80 00:06:04,680 --> 00:06:05,320 Speaker 1: and change. 81 00:06:05,360 --> 00:06:06,400 Speaker 2: Your care and love. 82 00:06:06,200 --> 00:06:11,480 Speaker 1: For me offers me constant comfort and soul rest Lord. 83 00:06:11,520 --> 00:06:15,520 Speaker 1: I continually yearn for your restoration as the world wears 84 00:06:15,560 --> 00:06:19,400 Speaker 1: me down. I long to hold tight to the truth 85 00:06:19,560 --> 00:06:23,120 Speaker 1: that your grace never leaves me. And as I rest 86 00:06:23,200 --> 00:06:26,919 Speaker 1: in your grace, I find freedom and the release of expectation. 87 00:06:27,920 --> 00:06:32,040 Speaker 1: I find the fortification that enfolds me with your perfect 88 00:06:32,080 --> 00:06:35,960 Speaker 1: strength and power. And all I need to do to 89 00:06:36,040 --> 00:06:39,760 Speaker 1: receive that which I long for is to receive you. 90 00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:45,039 Speaker 1: Thank you for your restoring grace and your sufficient strength 91 00:06:45,839 --> 00:06:50,839 Speaker 1: in your perfect name. Amen. If you liked what you 92 00:06:50,920 --> 00:06:53,719 Speaker 1: heard today, I think you will love my latest book, 93 00:06:54,160 --> 00:06:58,080 Speaker 1: Win Over Worry, Conquer, which shakes you and Soar with 94 00:06:58,120 --> 00:07:01,480 Speaker 1: the One who overcomes. 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