1 00:00:02,720 --> 00:00:15,080 Speaker 1: Life Audio. Thank you for listening to your daily prayer, 2 00:00:15,320 --> 00:00:17,720 Speaker 1: where we help you find the words you need to 3 00:00:17,800 --> 00:00:20,840 Speaker 1: connect to your Father in Heaven. No matter what's happening 4 00:00:20,840 --> 00:00:23,520 Speaker 1: in your life today, you can trust that God wants 5 00:00:23,560 --> 00:00:26,200 Speaker 1: to hear from you. Right after the short word from 6 00:00:26,239 --> 00:00:29,400 Speaker 1: our sponsors, will pray through today's prayer for when you 7 00:00:29,560 --> 00:00:51,720 Speaker 1: fail yourself. A Prayer for when you Fail Yourself written 8 00:00:51,840 --> 00:00:56,440 Speaker 1: by Peyton Garland, read by Lea Gerard. For the mountains 9 00:00:56,440 --> 00:00:59,880 Speaker 1: may depart and the hills be removed, but my steadfast 10 00:01:00,120 --> 00:01:03,120 Speaker 1: love shall not depart from you, and my covenant of 11 00:01:03,240 --> 00:01:06,760 Speaker 1: peace shall not be removed, says the Lord who has 12 00:01:06,800 --> 00:01:12,080 Speaker 1: compassion on you Isaiah fifty four to ten. It'll never 13 00:01:12,160 --> 00:01:15,360 Speaker 1: be a question of if you fail yourself, but when 14 00:01:15,959 --> 00:01:19,720 Speaker 1: when you pick the impatient path, or choose cross words, 15 00:01:19,840 --> 00:01:24,399 Speaker 1: or neglect God's guidance, How do you see yourself? That's 16 00:01:24,440 --> 00:01:28,319 Speaker 1: the question you must ask yourself to gauge the direction 17 00:01:28,400 --> 00:01:32,280 Speaker 1: your heart and mind are taking. The answer will directly 18 00:01:32,319 --> 00:01:35,639 Speaker 1: reflect how you plan to move forward as a friend, 19 00:01:36,280 --> 00:01:41,120 Speaker 1: co worker, spouse, parent, or believer. No matter how big 20 00:01:41,200 --> 00:01:46,319 Speaker 1: or small, we define life's difficult circumstances or the things 21 00:01:46,319 --> 00:01:49,760 Speaker 1: that happen outside of our control. One thing is important 22 00:01:49,800 --> 00:01:53,760 Speaker 1: to recognize. How we view ourselves in relation to God, 23 00:01:54,040 --> 00:01:57,320 Speaker 1: who uses all things for our good, is a crucial 24 00:01:57,360 --> 00:02:00,800 Speaker 1: indicator for whether we allow the of the world to 25 00:02:00,840 --> 00:02:05,040 Speaker 1: consume us or the hope of Christ to sustain us. 26 00:02:06,200 --> 00:02:10,800 Speaker 1: It reveals if pride or shame will threaten to swallow 27 00:02:10,840 --> 00:02:16,080 Speaker 1: our ideas of the one who preserves the soul. Regardless 28 00:02:16,120 --> 00:02:20,360 Speaker 1: of the battle Crist the world composes, what doesn't kill 29 00:02:20,400 --> 00:02:26,320 Speaker 1: you doesn't always make you stronger. Apart from Christ, life's 30 00:02:26,320 --> 00:02:29,560 Speaker 1: hardest times mean little, and humans weren't created to live 31 00:02:29,600 --> 00:02:34,680 Speaker 1: with little purpose. We weren't hand fashioned by the God 32 00:02:34,720 --> 00:02:39,600 Speaker 1: who flung the stars to merely exist. God is too 33 00:02:39,639 --> 00:02:45,079 Speaker 1: intentional to waste his children's lives. When we forget how 34 00:02:45,200 --> 00:02:49,000 Speaker 1: personal God is, how limited we are apart from him, 35 00:02:49,680 --> 00:02:54,440 Speaker 1: Let's consider basic biology. In the physical world, we cannot 36 00:02:54,600 --> 00:02:58,560 Speaker 1: and will not live forever, So why would we think 37 00:02:58,800 --> 00:03:02,040 Speaker 1: we could our hearts and souls for this life and 38 00:03:02,080 --> 00:03:07,720 Speaker 1: the next? What control do we truly have over our circumstances? 39 00:03:07,919 --> 00:03:11,120 Speaker 1: And how much control would we truly want anyway, so 40 00:03:11,200 --> 00:03:15,520 Speaker 1: long as we live in sinful flesh. Furthermore, in a 41 00:03:15,600 --> 00:03:19,200 Speaker 1: fallen world full of mistakes and broken hearts. What fight 42 00:03:19,280 --> 00:03:22,400 Speaker 1: would be worth showing up for without a God promising 43 00:03:22,520 --> 00:03:26,920 Speaker 1: eternal rest and freedom On the other side, Friend, don't 44 00:03:26,960 --> 00:03:31,760 Speaker 1: allow pride to convince you that you can weather storms alone. 45 00:03:32,400 --> 00:03:37,600 Speaker 1: Humans aren't indestructible in that same breath, except that your 46 00:03:37,600 --> 00:03:42,760 Speaker 1: failures don't change your purpose. Shame can't snatch the pen 47 00:03:42,800 --> 00:03:46,000 Speaker 1: from God's hand to rewrite your story. God shaped you 48 00:03:46,120 --> 00:03:48,640 Speaker 1: in the womb, knowing you would be born into a 49 00:03:48,680 --> 00:03:52,600 Speaker 1: sinful world. He knew your little toddler heart would be 50 00:03:52,640 --> 00:03:56,520 Speaker 1: prone to tantrums, your teenage brain would be lurered by lust, 51 00:03:56,840 --> 00:03:59,960 Speaker 1: and your adult body would be worn down by life 52 00:04:00,200 --> 00:04:05,080 Speaker 1: consistent hardships. So when you do fail, because it will happen, 53 00:04:05,720 --> 00:04:08,120 Speaker 1: you can't believe the lie that it's all over or 54 00:04:08,120 --> 00:04:11,280 Speaker 1: that your worth has been belittled. Just as you can't 55 00:04:11,280 --> 00:04:15,600 Speaker 1: sustain your human body, you can't sustain your soul's worth. 56 00:04:16,920 --> 00:04:19,680 Speaker 1: I've considered what my life would look like without my 57 00:04:19,760 --> 00:04:23,719 Speaker 1: Christian faith in my life, all worth would instantly be 58 00:04:23,760 --> 00:04:27,080 Speaker 1: placed in motherhood, and that's one area where I fail 59 00:04:27,400 --> 00:04:31,840 Speaker 1: most often. Thus, I would be like the boxer beating 60 00:04:31,880 --> 00:04:34,800 Speaker 1: the air in one Corinthians nine twenty six, the one 61 00:04:34,920 --> 00:04:38,720 Speaker 1: flailing his arms trying to be what he could never be. 62 00:04:38,800 --> 00:04:43,200 Speaker 1: Perfect my life would mean little more than showing up 63 00:04:43,240 --> 00:04:46,680 Speaker 1: to fail myself, rather than allowing God to show his 64 00:04:46,880 --> 00:04:51,200 Speaker 1: mercy and grace to me through my mothering and through 65 00:04:51,240 --> 00:04:57,080 Speaker 1: realizing I can't and won't do everything correctly. In that recognition, 66 00:04:57,160 --> 00:05:01,880 Speaker 1: I find that His sovereignty and goodness aren't muted by 67 00:05:01,880 --> 00:05:05,880 Speaker 1: my mistakes. What a relief for us all to know 68 00:05:05,920 --> 00:05:09,880 Speaker 1: that God's beauty and forbearance will never hinge on our performance. 69 00:05:11,200 --> 00:05:15,240 Speaker 1: What a promise of safety and rest to guide us 70 00:05:15,360 --> 00:05:21,159 Speaker 1: from this life into the next. Let's pray, Lord, thank 71 00:05:21,200 --> 00:05:25,320 Speaker 1: you for your grace, mercy and everlasting patience. Thank You 72 00:05:25,360 --> 00:05:28,240 Speaker 1: for being all the goodness and perfection we can't be. 73 00:05:29,600 --> 00:05:32,880 Speaker 1: Even in your flawless character, you show us what it 74 00:05:32,960 --> 00:05:36,159 Speaker 1: means to be full of humility and love, and I 75 00:05:36,240 --> 00:05:40,080 Speaker 1: praise you for that. God. I ask that when we fail, 76 00:05:40,600 --> 00:05:43,480 Speaker 1: we refuse to listen to pride's lies, that we can 77 00:05:43,480 --> 00:05:46,560 Speaker 1: put everything back together on our own. 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