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Speaker 1: Life Audio.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for listening to your daily prayer, where we

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Speaker 2: help you find the words you need to connect to

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Speaker 2: your Father in Heaven. No matter what's happening in your

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Speaker 2: life today, you can trust that God wants to hear

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Speaker 2: from you. Right after this short word from our sponsors,

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Speaker 2: we'll pray through today's prayer to live as a Resurrection person.

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Speaker 2: A prayer to Live as a Resurrection Person written by

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Speaker 2: Heidi ve read.

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Speaker 1: By Lea Gerard.

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Speaker 2: We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death

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Speaker 2: in order that just as Christ was raised from the dead,

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Speaker 2: we too may live a new life.

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Speaker 1: Roman six'. Four i've been A christian my entire.

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Speaker 2: LIFE i was on fire as a, child wavered in middle,

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Speaker 2: school dove deep into my relationship With god in high,

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Speaker 2: school and then drifted into.

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Speaker 1: The party scene in my.

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Speaker 2: Twenties it took years to figure out WHERE i belonged

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Speaker 2: and what kind of WOMAN i wanted to. Be Now

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Speaker 2: i'm in my mid, forties parenting young adult children and

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Speaker 2: serving at my local, CHURCH i am not the same

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Speaker 2: PERSON i was in the tumultuous days of my. Youth

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Speaker 2: i've lived enough life to know that living as a

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Speaker 2: resurrected person In jesus is the best way to.

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Speaker 1: Live that doesn't mean it's.

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Speaker 2: Easy living For jesus can be, challenging especially when we're

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Speaker 2: tempted by, sin eager to prove ourselves, right or simply

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Speaker 2: passive in our.

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Speaker 1: Faith we're.

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Speaker 2: Human we all have tendencies that pull us away from

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Speaker 2: the Life god desires for. Us when we choose to Honor,

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Speaker 2: god we will face situations that.

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Speaker 1: Try to derail. Us but we have to remember.

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Speaker 2: When we Love, jesus people are, watching and even when

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Speaker 2: no one else, Sees god. Does if we want to

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Speaker 2: Share jesus with, others our lifestyle is our loudest. Message

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Speaker 2: do we Honor god with our, time, resources, voice talents and.

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Speaker 2: Hobbies are we quick to anger or slow to? Forgive

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Speaker 2: do we, gossip, exaggerate or avoid. Accountability it's so easy

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Speaker 2: to point out someone else's flaws while ignoring our. Own

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Speaker 2: Consider matthew seven three through, five which, says why do

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Speaker 2: you look at this speck of sawdust in your brother's

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Speaker 2: eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own?

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Speaker 1: Eye first take the plank.

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Speaker 2: Out of your own, eye and then you will see

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Speaker 2: clearly to remove the speck from your brother's. Eye god

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Speaker 2: calls us to humility and. Repentance he calls us to

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Speaker 2: live Like jesus so that others are drawn to. Him

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Speaker 2: he wants to use us to love, well to extend,

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Speaker 2: grace and to share the good. News but to share

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Speaker 2: the good, news we have to live like we believe it's.

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Speaker 2: Good if we live, cynical, angry or judgmental, lives we

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Speaker 2: won't Reflect.

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Speaker 1: Christ we'll repel people from.

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Speaker 2: Him we need to live like resurrected people because we

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Speaker 2: Are jesus gave his life so we could walk in.

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Speaker 2: Freedom we don't deserve and reflect his character in the

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Speaker 2: way we. Live Ask god to reveal the areas that need,

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Speaker 2: refining not so that we look, impressive but so that

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Speaker 2: others See jesus in. Us it isn't easy standing out For,

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Speaker 2: jesus but it is worth.

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Speaker 1: It we are living for, him not for.

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Speaker 2: Others we can live in peace knowing that our, energy,

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Speaker 2: thoughts and motives are motivated By his goodness and, peace

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Speaker 2: Bringing god's love to everyone we. Encounter let's, Pray, LORD

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Speaker 2: i desire to honor you with my. Life show me

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Speaker 2: the areas that need to. CHANGE i want to be

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Speaker 2: mindful of WHAT i say and.

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Speaker 1: Do BUT i need your.

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Speaker 2: Help my sin and selfishness can so easily get in the.

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Speaker 2: WAY i want to live in this world without looking like.

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Speaker 2: IT i want to stand out and Reflect christ even

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Speaker 2: when it's, hard even when it makes me. DIFFERENT i

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Speaker 2: want to Love you more THAN i love being right

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Speaker 2: or fitting. In help me to live graciously and draw

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Speaker 2: others closer to. You teach me to be a woman of.

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Speaker 2: Integrity guard my heart from being judgmental or. Critical, instead

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Speaker 2: let me lead others with love and. Gentleness forgive me

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Speaker 2: for my, Sin, lord and help me live as a resurrected.

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Speaker 2: Person each day WHEN i struggle or remind me of your.

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Speaker 2: Sacrifice keep my heart thankful for all you have. Done

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Speaker 2: help me remember that you are good even when life is.

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Speaker 2: Not you are, bigger, stronger and greater than ANYTHING i will,

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Speaker 2: face AND i want others to see.

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Speaker 1: That truth in. Me thank You jesus for my.

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Speaker 2: Salvation may my life reflect it every single. Day you

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Speaker 2: your precious, Name we Pray. Amen your daily prayer is

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