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Speaker 1: Life Audio. Thank you for listening to your daily prayer,

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Speaker 1: where we help you find the words you need to

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Speaker 1: connect to your Father in Heaven. No matter what's happening

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Speaker 1: in your life today, you can trust that God wants

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Speaker 1: to hear from you. Right after this short word from

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Speaker 1: our sponsors, we'll pray through today's prayer to Consider the Wildflowers.

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Speaker 1: A prayer to Consider the Wildflowers, written and read by

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Speaker 1: Leah Gerard. Consider how the wildflowers grow. They do not

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Speaker 1: labor or spin. Yet I tell you not even Solomon,

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Speaker 1: in all his splendor, was dressed like one of these

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Speaker 1: Luke twelve twenty seven. Have you ever been completely amazed

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Speaker 1: by a flower or just blown away by how their

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Speaker 1: petals scatter in an unbelievably perfect pattern without any human intervention? Indeed,

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Speaker 1: humans are woven into God's creation. But I like coming

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Speaker 1: back to Luke twelve twenty seven and remembering that the

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Speaker 1: way He feeds, grows, designs, and dresses the flowers, trees, mountains, skies,

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Speaker 1: and seas is an inconceivable miracle beyond our human ability.

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Speaker 1: The way nature simply trusts the sun, waits for the rain,

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Speaker 1: and surrenders its fruit, branches and leaves shows us so

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Speaker 1: much about God's intent for the condition of our hearts.

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Speaker 1: In his quintessential message, which you calls the Sermon on

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Speaker 1: the Mountain, Luke calls the Sermon on the Plane, Jesus

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Speaker 1: delivers foundational truths not only for his generation, but for

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Speaker 1: generations to come. I love Luke twelve twenty seven, which

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Speaker 1: asks us to consider how the wildflowers grow. It lands

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Speaker 1: in the middle of a passage subtitled in various Bible

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Speaker 1: translations as simply stop worry or do not worry. I

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Speaker 1: wonder if this urgent call is couched in this soft analogy,

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Speaker 1: because it shifts our minds away from material things. Instead,

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Speaker 1: it lifts our eyes to the natural world around us,

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Speaker 1: which is always providing. In fact, Jesus gets very specific

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Speaker 1: in this sermon, stating in Luke twelve fifteen that life

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Speaker 1: does not consist of an abundance of possessions. I often

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Speaker 1: go for walks simply to listen for the voices of flowers.

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Speaker 1: Of course they're not audible, but it seems the way

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Speaker 1: they sprout, shrivel, clime li loh and burst into glorious

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Speaker 1: colors as an invitation to witness the life God desires

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Speaker 1: for each of us. In Luke twelve twenty seven, Jesus

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Speaker 1: uses King Solomon as a worldly example of extreme wealth.

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Speaker 1: He no doubt amassed an excess of opulence that some

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Speaker 1: might even idolize. Yet I can't explain why. In a

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Speaker 1: breath of scripture, we all just get it. We get

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Speaker 1: what Jesus is saying. He compares Solomon to the quietest,

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Speaker 1: most vulnerable, and tender thing that's right beneath our feet,

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Speaker 1: and the flower becomes our teacher. Jesus always knew what

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Speaker 1: people needed to hear, and still does. And why is that?

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Speaker 1: Because God made your heart and he understands your worries.

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Speaker 1: So in Luke twelve, he also explains that birds don't

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Speaker 1: build barns and storehouses, yet they're fed. He tells us

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Speaker 1: that flower don't worry about having all the right outfits

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Speaker 1: or impressive clothing, yet their faith is beautiful. He challenges

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Speaker 1: his disciples, calling them ye of little faith. As a

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Speaker 1: wake up call of sorts. It reveals that even those

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Speaker 1: who walked closely with Jesus and gave up their lives

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Speaker 1: to follow him still struggled to live by faith. Worrying

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Speaker 1: steals our joy and God knows this, so he lovingly

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Speaker 1: warns against it. He asks us instead to see how

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Speaker 1: his marvelous provision sustains us. If you're worrying today about

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Speaker 1: your paycheck, your groceries, your health, your marriage, your children,

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Speaker 1: or anything else you hold extremely dear, please know this.

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Speaker 1: God sees, He knows, and it's even more important to

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Speaker 1: him that he provide what you truly need. He hasn't

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Speaker 1: promised a life here on earth without pain, sickness, or death,

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Speaker 1: but you will have peace to endure and joy for eternity.

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Speaker 1: If you surrender to his beautiful plan, you're allowed to

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Speaker 1: release all that's worrying you. God is asking you to

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Speaker 1: give it to him. Why not also ask him to

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Speaker 1: help you live with the faith of a wildflower or

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Speaker 1: the freedom of a bird. His message is clear. When

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Speaker 1: we seek God first, he will show us that he

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Speaker 1: supplies what's truly needed. Let's pray, Lord, thank you for

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Speaker 1: the beauty and wonder of your creation. Thank you that

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Speaker 1: even a flower can show me who you are. Help

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Speaker 1: me not worry about all the things the world says

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Speaker 1: I need, and instead trust you to supply what you

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Speaker 1: know I need. Help me lay down some of my

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Speaker 1: striving to make room in my life, to see how

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Speaker 1: wildflowers grow, To appreciate that you are the sun, moon stars,

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Speaker 1: To remember that what I hold in my two hands

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Speaker 1: or my simple home is all because of your provision,

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Speaker 1: not my doing. I'm so grateful for this life and

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Speaker 1: for your word that challenges me to not just say

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Speaker 1: I have faith, but live in a way that demonstrates

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Speaker 1: my faith. Show me, grow me, lead me. I love

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