1 00:00:02,680 --> 00:00:03,520 Speaker 1: Life Audio. 2 00:00:07,880 --> 00:00:12,040 Speaker 2: Welcome to the Untangling Prayer Podcast. I'm Rachel Wojo, and 3 00:00:12,200 --> 00:00:17,200 Speaker 2: each week we unravel life's nots through prayer. Here you'll 4 00:00:17,239 --> 00:00:21,360 Speaker 2: find practical wisdom and prayer encouragement to guide you through 5 00:00:21,400 --> 00:00:26,439 Speaker 2: life's hardest seasons. Join me as we untangle life's messes together, 6 00:00:27,120 --> 00:00:33,960 Speaker 2: one prayer at a time. Why he there. 7 00:00:34,120 --> 00:00:37,479 Speaker 1: I'm Rachel, and I'm so glad you're here with me today. 8 00:00:38,080 --> 00:00:41,239 Speaker 1: I want to start with a question just between you 9 00:00:41,760 --> 00:00:45,519 Speaker 1: and God. When you think about your own heart, the 10 00:00:45,600 --> 00:00:49,760 Speaker 1: part of you that's maybe been hurt before, who's the 11 00:00:49,800 --> 00:00:53,760 Speaker 1: one protecting it? Who do you count on to keep 12 00:00:53,760 --> 00:00:57,240 Speaker 1: your heart safe. I've got a hunch about your answer, 13 00:00:57,280 --> 00:01:00,000 Speaker 1: because for a long time it was mine. I fakeure 14 00:01:00,240 --> 00:01:03,440 Speaker 1: that if I didn't keep watch over my own heart, 15 00:01:03,640 --> 00:01:08,080 Speaker 1: then nobody was going to. So I stayed ready. I 16 00:01:08,240 --> 00:01:12,560 Speaker 1: was always thinking about the next hard thing, and I 17 00:01:12,600 --> 00:01:15,200 Speaker 1: put walls up so I wouldn't get hurt again. I 18 00:01:15,400 --> 00:01:19,040 Speaker 1: was the strong one, and that seemed to be what 19 00:01:19,080 --> 00:01:23,560 Speaker 1: the situation called for. Maybe you know something about that too. 20 00:01:24,560 --> 00:01:27,319 Speaker 1: But what this episode is really about, and I think 21 00:01:27,360 --> 00:01:30,440 Speaker 1: it's going to be good news for some of you. 22 00:01:30,440 --> 00:01:35,320 Speaker 1: You were never meant to be the one guarding your heart. 23 00:01:35,920 --> 00:01:39,959 Speaker 1: It's not that guarding your heart doesn't matter, because it does. 24 00:01:40,480 --> 00:01:45,960 Speaker 1: But Scripture takes this very seriously. You were never meant 25 00:01:46,040 --> 00:01:50,080 Speaker 1: to carry all of this alone, even on the nights 26 00:01:50,080 --> 00:01:53,400 Speaker 1: where it feels like you were. God's been protecting your 27 00:01:53,440 --> 00:01:58,240 Speaker 1: heart the whole time in ways you probably haven't even understood. 28 00:01:58,920 --> 00:02:02,520 Speaker 1: And in this stretch of episodes we're calling for the warring, 29 00:02:03,080 --> 00:02:06,280 Speaker 1: we get to stop and praise God. We get to 30 00:02:06,400 --> 00:02:10,680 Speaker 1: reflect on the way that He is protecting our heart 31 00:02:10,880 --> 00:02:15,280 Speaker 1: in this particular episode. These episodes really aren't about the 32 00:02:15,320 --> 00:02:18,800 Speaker 1: things that we're doing for God or we're praying to God, 33 00:02:19,320 --> 00:02:22,040 Speaker 1: but they're more about praying the things that He's already 34 00:02:22,080 --> 00:02:25,000 Speaker 1: done for us. And one of the things he does 35 00:02:25,280 --> 00:02:28,720 Speaker 1: night after night is keep watch over the heart that 36 00:02:28,840 --> 00:02:32,519 Speaker 1: you've been so worn out trying to protect on your own. 37 00:02:32,960 --> 00:02:35,200 Speaker 1: Before we go any further, though, I want to mention 38 00:02:35,280 --> 00:02:38,280 Speaker 1: that everything we're talking about today comes straight out of 39 00:02:38,320 --> 00:02:42,400 Speaker 1: my new book, Praying through Life's Battles Ninety Days to 40 00:02:42,440 --> 00:02:46,760 Speaker 1: Strengthen Your Faith, and it releases August twenty fifth, but 41 00:02:47,040 --> 00:02:51,320 Speaker 1: you can pre order it right now at Battleprayers dot com. 42 00:02:51,760 --> 00:02:56,080 Speaker 1: When you're fighting a battle you didn't choose. This book 43 00:02:56,280 --> 00:02:59,960 Speaker 1: is ninety days of meeting God right in the middle 44 00:03:00,919 --> 00:03:04,239 Speaker 1: of whatever you're walking through. And when you preorder, you're 45 00:03:04,280 --> 00:03:07,160 Speaker 1: not just getting the book, you're helping it reach other women. 46 00:03:07,280 --> 00:03:11,040 Speaker 1: But also you can start reading it now. If you 47 00:03:11,120 --> 00:03:14,679 Speaker 1: go to Paddleprayers dot com pre order now, you'll get 48 00:03:14,680 --> 00:03:20,200 Speaker 1: the digital version. So today's question, the first segment of 49 00:03:20,240 --> 00:03:23,760 Speaker 1: our episode, is always a tough question in hard places, 50 00:03:23,960 --> 00:03:28,079 Speaker 1: and this question, when I caught it, I was just like, Okay, 51 00:03:28,280 --> 00:03:30,920 Speaker 1: how do I stop trying to protect myself all the 52 00:03:31,040 --> 00:03:34,679 Speaker 1: time when I'm tired? But when I let my guard down, 53 00:03:34,760 --> 00:03:38,000 Speaker 1: I feel like everything's going to fall apart. Do you 54 00:03:38,120 --> 00:03:42,080 Speaker 1: hear the wait in that question? This isn't somebody sending 55 00:03:42,120 --> 00:03:46,440 Speaker 1: me some theory question about prayer. This is someone who's 56 00:03:46,480 --> 00:03:51,120 Speaker 1: been really struggling for a long time and they're feel 57 00:03:51,160 --> 00:03:54,720 Speaker 1: like if they let go of this guard, then it's 58 00:03:54,760 --> 00:03:57,920 Speaker 1: going to be dangerous. Maybe the only thing standing between 59 00:03:57,960 --> 00:04:01,880 Speaker 1: her and or family and the disaster is her protecting 60 00:04:01,920 --> 00:04:05,240 Speaker 1: your own heart. And I just want to say that 61 00:04:05,280 --> 00:04:07,720 Speaker 1: if this is you, if you feel like you're guarding 62 00:04:07,760 --> 00:04:12,720 Speaker 1: a wound, that protecting yourself, it's not your responsibility to 63 00:04:12,800 --> 00:04:17,280 Speaker 1: begin with. And it's not like you've been doing something wrong. 64 00:04:17,560 --> 00:04:21,800 Speaker 1: But what it does mean is that you're standing on 65 00:04:21,880 --> 00:04:25,880 Speaker 1: a watch, on guard for something that was never meant 66 00:04:25,920 --> 00:04:29,120 Speaker 1: to be yours. You're trying to guard your heart, guard 67 00:04:29,160 --> 00:04:33,599 Speaker 1: your mind. You're trying to live on the edge all 68 00:04:33,680 --> 00:04:37,560 Speaker 1: the time, and you're worn down. And it's what happens 69 00:04:37,560 --> 00:04:41,720 Speaker 1: to any of us who try to guard ourselves for 70 00:04:41,760 --> 00:04:45,000 Speaker 1: long enough. And here's the thing that I don't want 71 00:04:45,040 --> 00:04:50,120 Speaker 1: you to miss. There is someone who's watch this actually is. 72 00:04:50,640 --> 00:04:53,520 Speaker 1: He does not get tired, and he does not grow weary. 73 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:57,000 Speaker 1: He does not step away from us. He's far better 74 00:04:57,520 --> 00:04:59,960 Speaker 1: at protecting us than you or I ever could be. 75 00:05:01,640 --> 00:05:07,680 Speaker 1: Guarding your heart is a real Biblical principle. Wisdom matters, 76 00:05:07,680 --> 00:05:11,919 Speaker 1: boundaries matter. Discernment about who and what you let close 77 00:05:11,960 --> 00:05:14,880 Speaker 1: to matters. So I'm not telling you to just fling 78 00:05:14,960 --> 00:05:18,360 Speaker 1: every door open and let everything walk into your life. 79 00:05:18,760 --> 00:05:21,000 Speaker 1: But what I'm trying to get at here is that 80 00:05:21,120 --> 00:05:25,440 Speaker 1: there's something underneath all of that. There's a difference between 81 00:05:25,960 --> 00:05:31,719 Speaker 1: guarding your heart alongside God, trusting him with it, or 82 00:05:31,839 --> 00:05:35,200 Speaker 1: trying to guard it on your own. One of those 83 00:05:35,400 --> 00:05:37,920 Speaker 1: you can do for a lifetime, and the other one 84 00:05:37,960 --> 00:05:40,719 Speaker 1: will run you into the ground, right, because no human 85 00:05:40,800 --> 00:05:45,320 Speaker 1: being can keep kind of watch on our souls forever 86 00:05:45,480 --> 00:05:49,760 Speaker 1: that we need. So here's the question I end up 87 00:05:49,800 --> 00:05:54,920 Speaker 1: asking myself when I'm watching over my own heart. Am 88 00:05:54,920 --> 00:05:58,320 Speaker 1: I doing it out of trust? Or am I doing 89 00:05:58,360 --> 00:06:02,320 Speaker 1: it out of fear? And there's this kind of watchfulness 90 00:06:02,360 --> 00:06:05,880 Speaker 1: that still leaves room to rest in God. But there's 91 00:06:05,960 --> 00:06:09,800 Speaker 1: a kind that never lets you rest at all. And 92 00:06:09,839 --> 00:06:12,799 Speaker 1: if you honestly can't remember the last time you rested, well, 93 00:06:13,520 --> 00:06:18,000 Speaker 1: if there's this weariness and worry that just never stops, 94 00:06:18,640 --> 00:06:21,880 Speaker 1: that's because fear has gotten a hold of you. I'm 95 00:06:21,920 --> 00:06:25,400 Speaker 1: thinking that fear is the control and when you have 96 00:06:25,520 --> 00:06:29,320 Speaker 1: that fear is the controlling thought, then everything starts to 97 00:06:29,400 --> 00:06:34,400 Speaker 1: fall apart. Fear has a source, and the source is 98 00:06:34,560 --> 00:06:38,440 Speaker 1: not God. Remember that, because we're going to kind of 99 00:06:38,480 --> 00:06:40,359 Speaker 1: come back to that a little bit. But thanks so 100 00:06:40,480 --> 00:06:44,320 Speaker 1: much for listening in to this segment of Questions in 101 00:06:44,440 --> 00:06:47,960 Speaker 1: Hard Places. Will be right back after this word from 102 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:53,840 Speaker 1: our sponsors. Thank you for allowing that word from our sponsors. 103 00:06:53,960 --> 00:06:58,159 Speaker 1: And now let's move into this week's Pray More Worry 104 00:06:58,240 --> 00:07:03,960 Speaker 1: Less encouragement, where a principle I want you to hold 105 00:07:04,000 --> 00:07:07,960 Speaker 1: on to you know comes into the episode, and this 106 00:07:08,080 --> 00:07:11,880 Speaker 1: principle is straight out of the devotional that is built 107 00:07:11,920 --> 00:07:16,480 Speaker 1: around this episode. Every devotion in this devotional says, there's 108 00:07:16,520 --> 00:07:19,440 Speaker 1: a lie the enemy tells you, and there's a strategy. 109 00:07:19,520 --> 00:07:22,280 Speaker 1: God gives you an answer to it. And when you 110 00:07:22,320 --> 00:07:25,960 Speaker 1: can hear and discern both by reading the scripture, then 111 00:07:26,000 --> 00:07:31,240 Speaker 1: you'll start catching the lie in real time. In this case, 112 00:07:31,280 --> 00:07:34,280 Speaker 1: we've been talking about how the enemy says to you 113 00:07:34,480 --> 00:07:38,200 Speaker 1: that your heart is unprotected and a lot of us 114 00:07:38,600 --> 00:07:42,720 Speaker 1: have believed that worry and overwhelm have the control. And 115 00:07:42,800 --> 00:07:46,280 Speaker 1: you believe the lie that you're on your own, and 116 00:07:46,360 --> 00:07:50,800 Speaker 1: since that's true, well then you become afraid. So worry 117 00:07:50,880 --> 00:07:53,720 Speaker 1: has earned its place. Fear gets a seat at the 118 00:07:53,800 --> 00:07:57,960 Speaker 1: table because look at everything that goes go wrong, and 119 00:07:58,000 --> 00:08:02,040 Speaker 1: that's the lie. That's that's what but noticing the lie does. 120 00:08:02,640 --> 00:08:05,400 Speaker 1: It tells you you're exposed, and it tells you that 121 00:08:05,560 --> 00:08:09,240 Speaker 1: fear is a reasonable response to being exposed. That's what 122 00:08:09,280 --> 00:08:12,080 Speaker 1: the enemy does. He tries to make you think that 123 00:08:12,240 --> 00:08:16,800 Speaker 1: worry feels like wisdom. But there's a strategy that God 124 00:08:16,800 --> 00:08:19,160 Speaker 1: gives you. Any answer to this when you praise me 125 00:08:19,360 --> 00:08:23,440 Speaker 1: for my protection, my peace and safety become a fortress 126 00:08:23,480 --> 00:08:26,520 Speaker 1: around your mind. Do you hear how different that is? 127 00:08:26,600 --> 00:08:30,520 Speaker 1: The enemy says your heart is unprotected, but God says 128 00:08:31,080 --> 00:08:34,600 Speaker 1: it isn't. He is protecting it, and he will prove it. 129 00:08:34,640 --> 00:08:37,400 Speaker 1: And here's how you take hold of it. So you're 130 00:08:37,400 --> 00:08:39,360 Speaker 1: not going to try to guard it harder. You're not 131 00:08:39,400 --> 00:08:42,760 Speaker 1: going to stay awake at night and be afraid. You're 132 00:08:42,800 --> 00:08:45,360 Speaker 1: going to praise him for a protection that's already yours. 133 00:08:45,520 --> 00:08:49,120 Speaker 1: And when you do this, his peace becomes the wall 134 00:08:49,160 --> 00:08:52,280 Speaker 1: around your mind that you were trying so hard to 135 00:08:52,360 --> 00:08:57,560 Speaker 1: build yourself. Let me show you exactly that strategy at work. 136 00:08:57,600 --> 00:09:01,840 Speaker 1: In scripture, we have Psalm four eight. David writes, in peace, 137 00:09:02,440 --> 00:09:05,640 Speaker 1: I will lie down and sleep. You alone, Lord, make 138 00:09:05,720 --> 00:09:09,160 Speaker 1: me dwell in safety. David was not safe by any 139 00:09:09,240 --> 00:09:11,640 Speaker 1: earthly measure when he wrote this. Look at the start 140 00:09:11,640 --> 00:09:14,079 Speaker 1: of the psalm, and you'll find a man who was 141 00:09:14,160 --> 00:09:19,280 Speaker 1: surrounded by people against him, distress pressing in on every side. 142 00:09:19,480 --> 00:09:21,679 Speaker 1: This is a man in the middle of a battle, 143 00:09:21,800 --> 00:09:25,240 Speaker 1: and here's how he ends it. In peace, I will 144 00:09:25,280 --> 00:09:30,080 Speaker 1: lie down and sleep, how because you God, make me 145 00:09:30,240 --> 00:09:35,240 Speaker 1: live in safety? That word alone is the strategy. Kind 146 00:09:35,280 --> 00:09:38,120 Speaker 1: of in one breath and one word, David is saying 147 00:09:38,200 --> 00:09:42,400 Speaker 1: he'll sleep because God's handled it. He's saying he'll sleep 148 00:09:42,800 --> 00:09:46,840 Speaker 1: because God's got it. He takes the safety off of 149 00:09:46,920 --> 00:09:50,000 Speaker 1: his shoulders and he puts it on God alone. That's 150 00:09:50,040 --> 00:09:53,520 Speaker 1: what praise does for us. That's him declaring who the 151 00:09:53,559 --> 00:09:57,440 Speaker 1: real protector is. And once he's declared it, he can 152 00:09:57,480 --> 00:10:01,679 Speaker 1: experience rest. That's the four It's not a feeling that 153 00:10:01,720 --> 00:10:05,000 Speaker 1: you have to manufacture and then try to just keep 154 00:10:05,040 --> 00:10:08,040 Speaker 1: alive on your own. It's a place that God builds 155 00:10:08,040 --> 00:10:10,920 Speaker 1: around your mind when you stop arguing with the lie 156 00:10:11,440 --> 00:10:15,160 Speaker 1: and start praising God instead. So let me kind of 157 00:10:15,200 --> 00:10:18,360 Speaker 1: bring it back to prayer, because this is where it 158 00:10:18,520 --> 00:10:22,480 Speaker 1: really takes place for me. The next time you feel 159 00:10:22,600 --> 00:10:25,440 Speaker 1: an old fear rising, the next time you hear your 160 00:10:25,520 --> 00:10:28,920 Speaker 1: heart is unprotected and you're on your own, and you 161 00:10:29,000 --> 00:10:33,000 Speaker 1: don't have to out argue it. You answer it with 162 00:10:33,080 --> 00:10:36,760 Speaker 1: the truth, which is praise God, Thank you that you 163 00:10:37,280 --> 00:10:40,520 Speaker 1: are protecting my heart right now. Thank you. You never 164 00:10:40,679 --> 00:10:44,320 Speaker 1: step away from me. You alone, God make me dwell 165 00:10:44,320 --> 00:10:48,040 Speaker 1: in safety. And that's not you pretending that you're not afraid. 166 00:10:48,720 --> 00:10:54,160 Speaker 1: It's you putting your safety back where it belongs. His 167 00:10:54,360 --> 00:10:57,679 Speaker 1: peace comes in and does for your heart and mind 168 00:10:57,720 --> 00:11:01,880 Speaker 1: which you could never do for yourself. So I want 169 00:11:01,920 --> 00:11:04,880 Speaker 1: you to try this week. I wanted to try it. 170 00:11:04,960 --> 00:11:08,120 Speaker 1: When you catch the fear rising, when you catch the 171 00:11:08,160 --> 00:11:13,040 Speaker 1: worry rising, don't try to fight it head on, praise it. 172 00:11:13,200 --> 00:11:17,120 Speaker 1: Speak aloud if you can, you alone Lord, and watch 173 00:11:17,160 --> 00:11:20,720 Speaker 1: what God's peace does around the mind that finally stopped 174 00:11:20,800 --> 00:11:25,640 Speaker 1: trying to guard it yourself. For our final segment, each week, 175 00:11:25,760 --> 00:11:29,120 Speaker 1: I share an answer prayer story, and this week it's 176 00:11:29,160 --> 00:11:33,560 Speaker 1: one of mine. For years, my husband worked night shift, 177 00:11:34,240 --> 00:11:38,960 Speaker 1: and the moment that Matt's car pulled out of the driveway, 178 00:11:39,000 --> 00:11:41,360 Speaker 1: when the garage door would go down, there was something 179 00:11:41,480 --> 00:11:43,800 Speaker 1: in me that just felt like it went on high 180 00:11:43,840 --> 00:11:47,640 Speaker 1: alert because now it was just me, Me and five kits, 181 00:11:48,000 --> 00:11:50,800 Speaker 1: one of them with special needs, want a toddler, want 182 00:11:50,840 --> 00:11:54,600 Speaker 1: a baby, and this whole night was stretching ahead of us. 183 00:11:54,760 --> 00:11:58,840 Speaker 1: My mind knew what to do with a night like this, 184 00:11:58,960 --> 00:12:01,640 Speaker 1: and it wasn't healthy. I would think, what if there's 185 00:12:01,640 --> 00:12:04,360 Speaker 1: a fire, how do I carry a baby and a 186 00:12:04,360 --> 00:12:08,080 Speaker 1: toddler and still get everybody out? What if someone breaks in? 187 00:12:08,720 --> 00:12:11,319 Speaker 1: And then the one that would really try to grip 188 00:12:11,320 --> 00:12:14,120 Speaker 1: me the hardest was what if my tailor has a 189 00:12:14,160 --> 00:12:16,680 Speaker 1: seizure my special needs daughter, and what if she stops 190 00:12:16,720 --> 00:12:20,000 Speaker 1: breathing in the night and I'm asleep and I don't 191 00:12:20,040 --> 00:12:22,680 Speaker 1: hear her. So I would lie there in the dark, 192 00:12:22,760 --> 00:12:25,480 Speaker 1: running all these scenarios through my head, like I could 193 00:12:25,520 --> 00:12:28,800 Speaker 1: try to solve all of these catastrophes ahead of time. 194 00:12:29,840 --> 00:12:35,400 Speaker 1: And I guess my lying there awake and afraid was 195 00:12:35,440 --> 00:12:39,240 Speaker 1: the thing keeping my children safe. Like I thought, oh well, 196 00:12:39,280 --> 00:12:41,520 Speaker 1: if I just lay here and worry, then maybe something 197 00:12:41,559 --> 00:12:45,400 Speaker 1: will happen. And I'm guessing your husband doesn't work night shift. 198 00:12:45,440 --> 00:12:48,720 Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe he does, or maybe you have 199 00:12:48,880 --> 00:12:52,199 Speaker 1: experienced this feeling. Anyway, though, it's that worry and that 200 00:12:52,360 --> 00:12:56,480 Speaker 1: fear all wound up together, tightening in your chest the 201 00:12:56,559 --> 00:12:59,480 Speaker 1: minute that you feel like you're the one responsible for everything. 202 00:13:00,240 --> 00:13:03,880 Speaker 1: And this is what changed that protection. It wasn't that 203 00:13:03,960 --> 00:13:07,160 Speaker 1: the fears stopped being real, because the fears were real. 204 00:13:07,240 --> 00:13:12,040 Speaker 1: They were legitimate fears. But I started speaking scripture out 205 00:13:12,120 --> 00:13:15,600 Speaker 1: loud before bed in the dark, in that quiet house. 206 00:13:16,200 --> 00:13:19,079 Speaker 1: One of the passages that I spoke was the very 207 00:13:19,160 --> 00:13:22,720 Speaker 1: one we've been in today. Psalm four eight. In peace, 208 00:13:22,920 --> 00:13:26,560 Speaker 1: I will lie down and sleep for you alone. Lord, 209 00:13:27,160 --> 00:13:30,200 Speaker 1: make me dwell in safety. And I wasn't saying it 210 00:13:30,240 --> 00:13:33,320 Speaker 1: because I felt safe. I was saying it because I 211 00:13:33,440 --> 00:13:37,400 Speaker 1: knew the truth that God is my protection, whether I 212 00:13:37,440 --> 00:13:40,200 Speaker 1: feel it or not. So I was praising Him for 213 00:13:40,240 --> 00:13:43,880 Speaker 1: a protection that I didn't feel. And night after night 214 00:13:44,000 --> 00:13:47,600 Speaker 1: that verse moves me. It moved to the watch off 215 00:13:47,640 --> 00:13:51,480 Speaker 1: of my shoulders, giving it back to God. I wasn't 216 00:13:51,559 --> 00:13:54,600 Speaker 1: the one who could keep my children breathing through the night. 217 00:13:55,360 --> 00:13:59,360 Speaker 1: I never had been. God was, He always had been. 218 00:14:00,160 --> 00:14:03,840 Speaker 1: And somewhere in the middle of speaking those words out loud, 219 00:14:04,600 --> 00:14:08,800 Speaker 1: I finally rested. I started to rest. I want to 220 00:14:08,840 --> 00:14:11,960 Speaker 1: tell you that the fires never came, nobody ever broke in, 221 00:14:12,120 --> 00:14:15,840 Speaker 1: and that is true, but it doesn't really point to 222 00:14:15,880 --> 00:14:18,880 Speaker 1: the story. The point of the story is that God 223 00:14:19,000 --> 00:14:23,120 Speaker 1: was keeping watch over that house and every child in 224 00:14:23,160 --> 00:14:26,280 Speaker 1: it on the nights I was terrified, and on the 225 00:14:26,400 --> 00:14:30,200 Speaker 1: nights I finally slept. He never needed me to stay 226 00:14:30,240 --> 00:14:33,840 Speaker 1: awake to help him do it. And that story is 227 00:14:33,920 --> 00:14:36,200 Speaker 1: the kind of thing I've filled the pages with my 228 00:14:36,280 --> 00:14:40,680 Speaker 1: new book, Praying through Life's Battles Ninety days to strengthen 229 00:14:40,720 --> 00:14:44,840 Speaker 1: your faith. This is ninety days of learning to meet 230 00:14:44,920 --> 00:14:48,960 Speaker 1: God in the middle of the fight, in the middle 231 00:14:49,000 --> 00:14:52,880 Speaker 1: of the night. And this devotional that goes with today's 232 00:14:52,920 --> 00:14:56,920 Speaker 1: episode is called The Way He Protects Your Heart. It 233 00:14:57,080 --> 00:15:00,760 Speaker 1: ends with this battle cry, I pray God for his 234 00:15:00,920 --> 00:15:06,000 Speaker 1: protection and his peace becomes a fortress that guards my 235 00:15:06,320 --> 00:15:10,760 Speaker 1: heart against every fear. If you are tired of standing 236 00:15:10,800 --> 00:15:13,560 Speaker 1: against fear and standing guard, this book is for you. 237 00:15:14,040 --> 00:15:17,040 Speaker 1: It releases August twenty fifth, but you can pre order 238 00:15:17,080 --> 00:15:22,040 Speaker 1: it now at battleprayers dot com and start reading today. 239 00:15:22,480 --> 00:15:26,400 Speaker 1: My publisher has allowed a digital version of this book 240 00:15:26,440 --> 00:15:29,760 Speaker 1: to be downloaded immediately, so you don't have to wait 241 00:15:29,840 --> 00:15:33,400 Speaker 1: until you receive the physical book. Go to battle prayers 242 00:15:33,440 --> 00:15:37,120 Speaker 1: dot com. And if you're not quite ready for the book, 243 00:15:37,200 --> 00:15:40,440 Speaker 1: but you really want to start somewhere, then I've got 244 00:15:40,440 --> 00:15:44,040 Speaker 1: a free resource at battleprayers dot com. It's called the 245 00:15:44,120 --> 00:15:47,080 Speaker 1: Prey Through It battle Plan, and it walks you through 246 00:15:47,640 --> 00:15:52,840 Speaker 1: six simple steps to pray through whatever you're facing. That's 247 00:15:53,000 --> 00:15:56,600 Speaker 1: free at battleprayers dot com. So thank you for joining 248 00:15:56,600 --> 00:16:01,320 Speaker 1: me on the Untangling Prayer podcast. I pray Today's episode 249 00:16:01,800 --> 00:16:06,560 Speaker 1: reminded you that keeping watch over your own heart was 250 00:16:06,680 --> 00:16:10,320 Speaker 1: never a job that you had to do. God's peace 251 00:16:10,920 --> 00:16:15,080 Speaker 1: is your fortress and you're invited inside until next time. 252 00:16:15,200 --> 00:16:19,680 Speaker 1: Remember God sees you, he hears you, and he knows 253 00:16:19,720 --> 00:16:20,200 Speaker 1: your need. 254 00:16:22,040 --> 00:16:26,280 Speaker 2: Thanks for joining me on the Untangling Prayer Podcast. If 255 00:16:26,280 --> 00:16:29,720 Speaker 2: this episode resonated with you, share it with someone who 256 00:16:29,800 --> 00:16:33,239 Speaker 2: could use a little hope, and be sure to subscribe 257 00:16:33,320 --> 00:16:38,120 Speaker 2: for more. Until next time, Keep seeking, keep trusting, and 258 00:16:38,360 --> 00:16:39,480 Speaker 2: keep praying.