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Speaker 1: Life Audio. You're listening to every Day Prayers with Million

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Speaker 1: Praying Moms, helping you pray God's word for your family

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Speaker 1: in the areas you need it most. I'm your host,

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Speaker 1: Nicolette Bell. Here we believe prayer isn't a last resort.

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Speaker 1: It's our first and best response in parenting, and every

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Speaker 1: day we come together to partner with God for the

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Speaker 1: hearts of our children. This fall, we're praying through the

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Speaker 1: Nine for the Spirit in nine weeks, using devotions adapted

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Speaker 1: from our Everyday Prayers devotional series. This week's prayer focus

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Speaker 1: is peace, and today's devotion is written and read by

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Speaker 1: Katie Westenberg. She's one of the authors in our Everyday

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Speaker 1: Prayers for All Ages and Stages ebook that's available on Kindle. Today,

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Speaker 1: Katie shares a prayer for peace with all of us.

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Speaker 1: To learn more about Katie. To learn more about the

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Speaker 1: ministry of Million Praying Moms, go to Millionprayingmoms dot com.

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Speaker 1: You'll find a link in our show notes. After a

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Speaker 1: quick word from our sponsors, we'll pray together for our children. Peace.

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Speaker 2: I leave with you my peace. I give to you

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Speaker 2: not as the world gives. Do. I give to you.

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Speaker 2: Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes we complicate things that scripture makes clear. Our real life,

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Speaker 2: the gritty of every day creeps onto the scene of

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Speaker 2: what we believe to be true, what we know full

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Speaker 2: well when we sit in quiet with our bibles blade

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Speaker 2: open in our laps begins to cloud a bit. I'm

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Speaker 2: trusting you felt this too. We all sit nodding our

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Speaker 2: heads as we take in bits of truth and quiet places.

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Speaker 2: We feast on morsels. Yes, Lord, we say, But a

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Speaker 2: few hours later, when the schedule feels suffocating and the

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Speaker 2: house is a mess, our store of peace and patience

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Speaker 2: is depleted, evaporated. Exactly does one step off this roller coaster?

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Speaker 2: Hirashio Stafford knew how a prominent Chicago lawyer. Stafford had

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Speaker 2: significant landholdings, which literally went up in flames in the

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Speaker 2: Great Chicago Fire. A couple years later, he planned a

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Speaker 2: trip to Europe with his family. Delayed with business proceedings,

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Speaker 2: Stafford sent his wife and four daughters ahead and determined

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Speaker 2: to follow shortly. On November twenty two, eighteen seventy three,

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Speaker 2: the ship transporting Missus Stafford and the four daughters was

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Speaker 2: struck at sea and sank in twelve minutes, only Missus

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Speaker 2: Stafford survived. It was while crossing the Atlantic to meet

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Speaker 2: his wife that Hirashia Stafford penned the words to the

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Speaker 2: famous him, It is well with my soul, when peace

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Speaker 2: like a river attendeth my way, when sorrows like sea

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Speaker 2: billows roll, whatever my lot, thou hast taught me to say,

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Speaker 2: it is well, It is well with my soul. What

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Speaker 2: a poignant reminder in the midst of what must have

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Speaker 2: felt like suffocating chaos. Spafford's peace was not circumstantial. It

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Speaker 2: was not based on mere emotion or response to events

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Speaker 2: stirring wild around him. He knew what the prophet Isaiah

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Speaker 2: proclaimed in Isaiah twenty six'. Three he will keep him

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Speaker 2: in perfect. Peace whose mind is stayed on, you the

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Speaker 2: world continuously jockeys for a corner on. Peace it will

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Speaker 2: convince you peace is tidiness and, minimalism productivity and. INTENTIONALITY

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Speaker 2: a little less of this and more of. That it

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Speaker 2: will sell you any book you are willing to buy

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Speaker 2: on one hundred different methods to counteract chaos and construct.

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Speaker 2: Calm and while there is value in learning to order

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Speaker 2: our days, mean we never substitute what the world gives

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Speaker 2: or the real source of. Peace in what ways have

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Speaker 2: you seen the world market? Piece do those ways align with?

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Speaker 2: Truth Hurrascio spafford was able to hold Faster christ in

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Speaker 2: times of chaos and deep sorrow because of what he

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Speaker 2: had been taught in quieter. Seasons whatever season you find yourself,

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Speaker 2: in how can you keep feasting on truth and strengthening

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Speaker 2: your foundation In? Christ let's Pray, god we need. You

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Speaker 2: we desperately need the peace that only you can. Give

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Speaker 2: help us not be distracted by all this world, offers

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Speaker 2: and not lose sight when our circumstances feel. Otherwise help

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Speaker 2: us fix our, eyes our, minds and our hearts on

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Speaker 2: you today and, always And Jesus Is Name.

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Speaker 1: Amen as part of Our fruit of The spirit prayers

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Speaker 1: and everyday prayers for The School year Book, Club Tarah

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Speaker 1: cole AND i created a free car conversations guide for

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Speaker 1: your family to use this. Fall the car is sometimes

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Speaker 1: the best place for our most precious conversations with our

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Speaker 1: kids as we are praying through The fruit of The.

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Speaker 1: Spirit our hope is that you can have meaningful conversations

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Speaker 1: with your kids about what living out these fruit looks

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Speaker 1: like in their daily. Lives tara AND i created it

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Speaker 1: series of quick. Questions she wrote some for the older,

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Speaker 1: KIDS i wrote some for younger, kids and we share

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Speaker 1: a prayer that you can share with your children about

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Speaker 1: each of the fruit of The. Spirit download your copy

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Speaker 1: for free on our website or the link in our show.

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Speaker 1: Notes until next, time, friends The lord bless you and keep.

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Speaker 1: You Make his face shine upon you and be gracious to.

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Speaker 1: You may The lord look with favor on you and

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Speaker 1: give you.

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Speaker 2: Peace