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Speaker 1: Life Audio.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for listening to your Daily Prayer, a podcast

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Speaker 2: dedicated to helping you find the words you need to

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Speaker 2: connect with your Father in Heaven. No matter what is

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Speaker 2: going on in your life today, you can trust that

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Speaker 2: God wants.

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Speaker 1: To hear from you.

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Speaker 2: Right after this short word from our sponsor, you will

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Speaker 2: pray through today's prayer for grace as you enter a

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Speaker 2: new light season.

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Speaker 1: Together.

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Speaker 2: A Prayer for Grace as you enter a new light

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Speaker 2: season written and read by Carrie. And God is able

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Speaker 2: to make all grace abound to you, so that having

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Speaker 2: all sufficiency in all things at all times, you may

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Speaker 2: have bound in every good work Second Corinthians nine, verse eight.

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Speaker 2: Near the end of our weekly Wednesday Bible study, I

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Speaker 2: sat still at the round table and sympathetically listened. One

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Speaker 2: at a time, several women shared a sense of sorrow

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Speaker 2: about the life change they had recently encountered, each specifically

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Speaker 2: reflecting on how the recent holiday season had looked a

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Speaker 2: lot different from how she had once remembered, foreign from

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Speaker 2: what she'd known and loved from years past, And I

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Speaker 2: felt it right with them. With my first born in

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Speaker 2: his freshman year of college, I'm happy to say he

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Speaker 2: came home to share Christmas in Thanksgiving with us, But

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Speaker 2: now he's back to school, and to be honest, I

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Speaker 2: can't be certain and how many more holidays you'll have

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Speaker 2: here with us? I certainly sense a life shift, a

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Speaker 2: new season upon me, and I'm not quite sure how

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Speaker 2: I feel about it. Of course, there's gratitude for the

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Speaker 2: goodness God faithfully keeps bringing forth, but there's a bit

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Speaker 2: of melancholy sadness that lingers, and if I'm being completely transparent,

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Speaker 2: there's also a touch of fear that it won't experience.

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Speaker 1: The fullness of joy I once did. Do these sentiments

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Speaker 1: spark something in you?

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Speaker 3: Do?

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Speaker 2: They stir up a sense that things are changing and

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Speaker 2: a new season.

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Speaker 1: Is upon you. Maybe it unsettles you slightly too.

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Speaker 2: Maybe you even have some guilt for feeling a little down,

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Speaker 2: because you know that God is so good, that he

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Speaker 2: has given you so much, and.

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Speaker 1: That you truly should be grateful and glad.

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Speaker 2: Well, here's what I think about such confusion and transition

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Speaker 2: and these times. It would serve us well to remember

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Speaker 2: God's grace, to remember or that God doesn't condemn you

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Speaker 2: for feeling this way, To remember that your feelings of

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Speaker 2: dissatisfaction are not God's discipline for not being content enough

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Speaker 2: with whatever circumstances. And to remember that this life change

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Speaker 2: will not necessarily continue to cause you to feel down

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Speaker 2: because of God's grace. God's grace means his goodness will

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Speaker 2: follow you regardless. His grace means it's okay for you

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Speaker 2: to feel disappointed. In fact, not only does he not

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Speaker 2: condemn you, but he has compassion on you. But his

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Speaker 2: grace also means he has so much more good coming

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Speaker 2: for you. Personally, I may still struggle, flail, and falter

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Speaker 2: as I settle into a new season, but God's grace

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Speaker 2: means He'll be patient with me, and God's grace means

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Speaker 2: he'll be patient with you too. He has so many

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Speaker 2: good gifts that He is ready and planning to lay

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Speaker 2: before you today along the journey ahead a road they'll

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Speaker 2: be just as beautiful. That's what you've already traveled, a

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Speaker 2: path vibrantly glaze God's loving goodness and unlimited grace and

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Speaker 2: sewod Corinthians nine, verse eight.

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Speaker 1: Paul reminds God's people that's.

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Speaker 2: You, me and all who love him, that God is

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Speaker 2: able to make all grace abound to you. Other versions

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Speaker 2: say that God will generously provide all you need, and

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Speaker 2: God is able to bless you abundantly. His grace will abound,

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Speaker 2: he will provide, and he will bless These are continual

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Speaker 2: promises made for a life lived and surrendered to Him,

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Speaker 2: for our seasons past present, and every single season of

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Speaker 2: change to be handed to him.

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Speaker 1: Whatever stage or phase you.

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Speaker 2: Find yourself in, know that His compassion is with you.

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Speaker 2: Know that His grace will be with you and will

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Speaker 2: abound to you. Trust that He will generously provide all

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Speaker 2: that you need, and be confident in the truth that

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Speaker 2: Peo will continue to bless you abundantly with his peace,

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Speaker 2: his presence, his protection, and his love. And in him

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Speaker 2: you will always and forever find a fullness of joy

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Speaker 2: found always, forever and only and Him. Let's pray, Lord Jesus,

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Speaker 2: your grace is more than sufficient for me in all things,

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Speaker 2: at all times, and even in the seasons it seem

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Speaker 2: to be changing seasons when I feel like I'm losing

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Speaker 2: or letting go of what I have loved dearly, And

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Speaker 2: though I may sometimes struggle with the shifts of life,

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Speaker 2: your grace tells me your compassion is with me, and

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Speaker 2: that your goodness will continue to follow me. Help me

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Speaker 2: hold tight to your loving grace that comforts me. Help

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Speaker 2: me cling to your helmeless grace that blesses me. Help

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Speaker 2: me remember that your grace means you will never stop

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Speaker 2: bestowing beautiful blessings, oh for me, all the days of

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Speaker 2: my life. Jesus, I praise you for your generous provision

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Speaker 2: and your unending joy.

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Speaker 1: In your name, I pray Amen.

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