1 00:00:02,720 --> 00:00:07,760 Speaker 1: Life Audio. 2 00:00:13,360 --> 00:00:16,759 Speaker 2: Thank you for listening to your Daily Prayer, a podcast 3 00:00:16,800 --> 00:00:19,640 Speaker 2: dedicated to helping you find the words you need to 4 00:00:19,680 --> 00:00:21,120 Speaker 2: connect with your Father in Heaven. 5 00:00:21,880 --> 00:00:23,080 Speaker 1: No matter what is going on. 6 00:00:23,040 --> 00:00:26,400 Speaker 2: In your life today, you can trust that God wants 7 00:00:26,440 --> 00:00:29,160 Speaker 2: to hear from you. Right after this short word from 8 00:00:29,160 --> 00:00:32,919 Speaker 2: our sponsor, we will pray through today's prayer to welcome 9 00:00:33,040 --> 00:00:56,560 Speaker 2: Spring together. A morning prayer to Welcome Spring written by 10 00:00:56,600 --> 00:00:59,520 Speaker 2: Lynette Kittle, read by Carrie Eiberger. 11 00:01:01,840 --> 00:01:03,760 Speaker 1: In the morning, Lord, you hear my. 12 00:01:03,800 --> 00:01:07,360 Speaker 2: Voice in the morning, I lay my request before you 13 00:01:07,920 --> 00:01:14,399 Speaker 2: and wait expectantly, Psalm five, verse three. I've grown to 14 00:01:14,480 --> 00:01:19,160 Speaker 2: love the early morning hours, their quietness and stillness, the 15 00:01:19,280 --> 00:01:23,680 Speaker 2: sense of being alone with God, just He and I together. 16 00:01:24,880 --> 00:01:28,120 Speaker 2: It may seem silly to feel or believe that we 17 00:01:28,160 --> 00:01:31,520 Speaker 2: are ever truly alone with God of the universe, but 18 00:01:31,640 --> 00:01:34,319 Speaker 2: early morning gives us the sense that it's just the 19 00:01:34,360 --> 00:01:38,839 Speaker 2: two of us spending time together. Being a daddy's girl 20 00:01:38,840 --> 00:01:41,560 Speaker 2: growing up, my dad was there for me every morning, 21 00:01:42,040 --> 00:01:46,280 Speaker 2: making coffee, bringing home our favorite doughnuts, speaking loving words 22 00:01:46,280 --> 00:01:49,200 Speaker 2: with a good morning hug and kiss. Just as my 23 00:01:49,320 --> 00:01:53,440 Speaker 2: father's earthly presence provided comfort and support at the start 24 00:01:53,480 --> 00:01:56,520 Speaker 2: of each new day. There is so much comfort and 25 00:01:56,600 --> 00:02:00,720 Speaker 2: strength that comes from being with my heavenly Father every morning. 26 00:02:01,840 --> 00:02:06,040 Speaker 2: Lamentations three twenty two, Verse twenty three reveals because of 27 00:02:06,120 --> 00:02:09,680 Speaker 2: the Lord's great love, we are not consumed, for His 28 00:02:09,800 --> 00:02:11,160 Speaker 2: compassions never fail. 29 00:02:11,760 --> 00:02:13,000 Speaker 1: They are new every morning. 30 00:02:13,560 --> 00:02:19,120 Speaker 2: Great is your faithfulness. Is God a morning person. God 31 00:02:19,200 --> 00:02:22,840 Speaker 2: seems to mention mornings often in scripture, calling us to 32 00:02:22,919 --> 00:02:26,400 Speaker 2: greet him, talk with him, and ask him for direction 33 00:02:26,520 --> 00:02:30,600 Speaker 2: for our day. Mark one point five describes how Jesus 34 00:02:30,639 --> 00:02:34,040 Speaker 2: spent his morning in prayer. Very early in the morning, 35 00:02:34,520 --> 00:02:37,880 Speaker 2: while it was still dark. Jesus got up, left the 36 00:02:37,960 --> 00:02:41,440 Speaker 2: house and went off to a solitary place where he 37 00:02:41,520 --> 00:02:46,119 Speaker 2: prayed as well. How many of us have experienced being 38 00:02:46,160 --> 00:02:49,160 Speaker 2: awakened early in the morning to pray and talk with God. 39 00:02:50,200 --> 00:02:54,320 Speaker 2: It seems fitting then, to welcome spring with a morning prayer, 40 00:02:54,960 --> 00:02:59,440 Speaker 2: especially after the cold, dark and dreary months. Spring feels 41 00:02:59,440 --> 00:03:01,920 Speaker 2: as though it has been quietly waiting in the wings 42 00:03:01,960 --> 00:03:05,600 Speaker 2: to appear, just as the morning quietly arrives each day 43 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:11,000 Speaker 2: like morning's first light. Spring is a fresh reminder that 44 00:03:11,080 --> 00:03:16,559 Speaker 2: the bearing seasons in our lives don't last forever. It renews, reminds, 45 00:03:16,840 --> 00:03:20,920 Speaker 2: and refreshes our hearts. Though it may seem like winter's 46 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:24,840 Speaker 2: chill and darkness will never end, new life is ready 47 00:03:25,200 --> 00:03:29,440 Speaker 2: and waiting to break forth, first in subtle ways, then 48 00:03:29,680 --> 00:03:33,799 Speaker 2: in glorious bursts of color and beauty. It's no wonder 49 00:03:33,880 --> 00:03:37,520 Speaker 2: that death and resurrection of Christ is celebrated in the spring, 50 00:03:38,240 --> 00:03:41,760 Speaker 2: as Jesus is the ultimate example of a new life 51 00:03:41,840 --> 00:03:46,480 Speaker 2: springing forth on the earth, buried to rise again, evidence 52 00:03:46,560 --> 00:03:53,800 Speaker 2: of life triumphing over death, and life eternally everlasting. As 53 00:03:53,800 --> 00:03:57,160 Speaker 2: written in John eleven, verse twenty five, Jesus said to her, 54 00:03:57,600 --> 00:04:00,360 Speaker 2: I am the Resurrection and the life. No one who 55 00:04:00,440 --> 00:04:05,080 Speaker 2: believes in me will live, even though they die. Spring 56 00:04:05,120 --> 00:04:08,480 Speaker 2: reminds us of God's faithfulness and new. 57 00:04:08,360 --> 00:04:09,040 Speaker 1: Life to come. 58 00:04:10,560 --> 00:04:13,880 Speaker 2: Spring reminds us that there is more to come, new 59 00:04:13,920 --> 00:04:17,080 Speaker 2: life waiting to emerge in this world, and new life 60 00:04:17,120 --> 00:04:21,800 Speaker 2: awaiting us in eternity. Like the morning, Spring welcomes us 61 00:04:21,880 --> 00:04:24,839 Speaker 2: each year with a gentle assurance that God has not 62 00:04:24,960 --> 00:04:28,839 Speaker 2: forgotten us. He reminds us of the life he continually 63 00:04:28,880 --> 00:04:33,560 Speaker 2: gives and renews within us. As Job thirty eight twelve 64 00:04:33,600 --> 00:04:37,280 Speaker 2: through thirteen, questions, have you ever given orders to the 65 00:04:37,320 --> 00:04:41,440 Speaker 2: morning or shown the dawn its place, that it might 66 00:04:41,560 --> 00:04:44,400 Speaker 2: take the earth by the edges and shake the wicked 67 00:04:44,440 --> 00:04:48,640 Speaker 2: out of it. Mornings and springtime seem to belong together, 68 00:04:49,320 --> 00:04:53,560 Speaker 2: a season to look to God, recognize his faithfulness, and 69 00:04:53,640 --> 00:04:56,960 Speaker 2: receive the new life he offers each of us if 70 00:04:57,000 --> 00:05:01,480 Speaker 2: we simply open our hearts to him. Ninety Verse fourteen 71 00:05:01,560 --> 00:05:04,640 Speaker 2: encouraged us to beget our mornings by asking God to 72 00:05:04,760 --> 00:05:08,520 Speaker 2: satisfy us in the morning with your unfailing love, that 73 00:05:08,600 --> 00:05:11,440 Speaker 2: we may sing for joy and be glad all our days, 74 00:05:12,200 --> 00:05:15,360 Speaker 2: as well as Psalm one forty three eight says, let 75 00:05:15,360 --> 00:05:19,200 Speaker 2: the morning bring me word of your unfailing love, for 76 00:05:19,360 --> 00:05:22,480 Speaker 2: I've put my trust in you. Show me the way 77 00:05:22,480 --> 00:05:26,360 Speaker 2: I should go, for to you I entrust my life. 78 00:05:27,040 --> 00:05:32,760 Speaker 2: Let's pray, dear Father, as Psalm sixty six nineteen assures us. 79 00:05:33,520 --> 00:05:36,280 Speaker 2: But God has surely listened and has heard my prayer. 80 00:05:37,120 --> 00:05:41,320 Speaker 2: We thank you for hearing, listening, and answering our morning prayer. 81 00:05:41,360 --> 00:05:45,720 Speaker 2: To welcome spring. With each new bud and evidence of 82 00:05:45,720 --> 00:05:48,680 Speaker 2: a new life we see bursting through. Let us be 83 00:05:48,760 --> 00:05:52,200 Speaker 2: reminded of your faithfulness and the new life you offer 84 00:05:52,320 --> 00:05:56,320 Speaker 2: each one of us through your son Jesus, let us 85 00:05:56,360 --> 00:05:58,440 Speaker 2: savor and take in all the. 86 00:05:58,360 --> 00:06:01,200 Speaker 1: Newness of life you give us. So, Lord, every. 87 00:06:01,080 --> 00:06:04,880 Speaker 2: Day of the spring season, fill and overflow our hearts 88 00:06:04,880 --> 00:06:08,400 Speaker 2: with gratitude so that we may sing for joy and 89 00:06:08,480 --> 00:06:10,240 Speaker 2: be glad for all our days. 90 00:06:11,160 --> 00:06:14,680 Speaker 1: This morning and every morning of spring, show us the. 91 00:06:14,600 --> 00:06:18,240 Speaker 2: Way we should go, as we entrust our lives to 92 00:06:18,320 --> 00:06:34,120 Speaker 2: your loving care in Jesus' name, Amen. Your Daily Prayer 93 00:06:34,200 --> 00:06:37,680 Speaker 2: is a production of Life Audio and Sale Media. If 94 00:06:37,680 --> 00:06:40,440 Speaker 2: you haven't already, be sure to follow the show on 95 00:06:40,520 --> 00:06:43,800 Speaker 2: your favorite podcast app so you never miss an episode. 96 00:06:44,520 --> 00:06:56,159 Speaker 2: For more faithful inspirational podcasts, visit us at lifeaudio dot com.