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Speaker 1: Life Audio.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for listening to your Daily Prayer, a podcast

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Speaker 2: dedicated to helping you find the words you need to

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Speaker 2: connect with your Father in Heaven. No matter what is

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Speaker 2: going on in your life today, you can trust that

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Speaker 2: God wants to hear from you. Right after this short

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Speaker 2: word from our sponsor, people pray through today's prayer to

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Speaker 2: desire what God desires for your life. Together A Prayer

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Speaker 2: to desire what God desires for your life, written and

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Speaker 2: read by Carrie Iiberger. As for God, his way is perfect.

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Speaker 2: The Lord's word is flawless. He shields all who take

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Speaker 2: refuge in him, saw Him eighteen verse thirty. It still

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Speaker 2: amazes me how God completely shifted my dreams and desires

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Speaker 2: from my previously planned future. My husband and I were

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Speaker 2: once quite comfortable with our family of five one boy,

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Speaker 2: two girls, and a poppy by the time our thirds

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Speaker 2: had off for kindergarten, and at last we were on

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Speaker 2: our way to retiring at a youthful enough age to

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Speaker 2: enjoy decades of adventure and travel alongside precious years of reflecting.

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Speaker 2: When the life be it handcrafted, everything was going according

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Speaker 2: to plan, my plan, until an unsettling stirring snuck into

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Speaker 2: my soul. A sense of slight purposelessness began to swell quickly.

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Speaker 2: It was around that time that it came across the

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Speaker 2: very in my studies about delighting in the Lord and

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Speaker 2: him giving the desires in our hearts. So that's what

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Speaker 2: I began to do. As much as humanly possible. I

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Speaker 2: wholeheartedly delighted in the Lord to seek the purpose I

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Speaker 2: desired through prayer, scripture, reading Bible studies, and soaking in sermons.

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Speaker 2: And it wasn't long before God pitifully placed new dreams

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Speaker 2: and desires in my heart, and a specific desire that

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Speaker 2: had definitely never been mine, the desire to add a

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Speaker 2: child to my family. And if you haven't read my

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Speaker 2: book or many of my devotions, I'll fast forward a

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Speaker 2: few years to inform you that I wound up with twins.

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Speaker 1: Wow, God right.

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Speaker 2: You might hear this story and think, yeah, great for you,

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Speaker 2: But I definitely don't want God to cast that desire

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Speaker 2: on me. You kind of like to have a say

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Speaker 2: in what God might direct you to. And maybe his

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Speaker 2: will for you isn't more kids. But what if God

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Speaker 2: planted a desire to move across the country or downsized

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Speaker 2: homes or careers or give half your salary to God.

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Speaker 2: Would any of those work for you? Or have you

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Speaker 2: been pretty closed off to that which seems uncomfortable or inconvenient? Hey,

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Speaker 2: I get it. I've certainly been a bit reluctant before too.

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Speaker 2: But to help ease any apprehension, I would like to

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Speaker 2: share the wonderful news I have learned firsthand. If you're

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Speaker 2: truly seeking and delighting in God, you will not just

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Speaker 2: instill the idea.

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Speaker 1: He will then begin to make.

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Speaker 2: You yearn from that which He plants in your heart.

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Speaker 2: He opens closed off hearts. His desire literally becomes your

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Speaker 2: deep desire. It's quite beautiful, actually. And if you've ever had,

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Speaker 2: or currently have any hesitation about adopting God's desires over

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Speaker 2: your prior plans or dreams, I want to assure you

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Speaker 2: the God's desires are genuinely what is best for your future.

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Speaker 2: In fact, his desires will offer you a more extraordinary

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Speaker 2: future than you could ever have imagined or dreamed up

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Speaker 2: on your own. Psalm eighteen thirty tells us as for God,

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Speaker 2: his way is perfect. The Lord's word is flawless. He

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Speaker 2: shields all who take refuge in him. God's way absolutely

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Speaker 2: is perfect. His desires, dreams, and plans for you are

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Speaker 2: all and always perfect.

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Speaker 1: And this truth.

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Speaker 2: Written in his word is without error, flaw also perfect.

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Speaker 2: We can trust his plans. We can take refuge in

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Speaker 2: him as he protects us too and all the way

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Speaker 2: through his plan. And as we stay close to him

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Speaker 2: and as he fans the flames of desire to line

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Speaker 2: up with his, there will be even more joy and

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Speaker 2: unparalleled enjoyment of that which he gives and unfolds as.

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Speaker 1: We walk along the path with him.

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Speaker 2: So dive deep into the delight of him, Because when

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Speaker 2: we deeply delighten him, our hearts align with his heart,

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Speaker 2: our desires align with his desires.

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Speaker 1: More and more become.

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Speaker 3: To want what he wants, and we begin to receive

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Speaker 3: more of the very things our hearts come to long for,

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Speaker 3: and our life becomes more and more beautiful than we

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Speaker 3: ever dreamed because we are following the perfect way, God's flawless,

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Speaker 3: perfect way.

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Speaker 2: Let's pray, Lord God, you are the way, and your

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Speaker 2: way is the best way, always and forever, and so

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Speaker 2: always and forever, I want what you want for my life,

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Speaker 2: and for the times I hold too tightly to my plans,

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Speaker 2: I know that the clones sor I stay.

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Speaker 1: To you, you will move and mold.

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Speaker 2: My mind and heart to match your perfect plans for me.

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Speaker 2: Help me remember to stay close to you. Help me

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Speaker 2: not forget that your will and way are perfect, and

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Speaker 2: that your plans are better than anything I could have

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Speaker 2: ever dreamed or desired for my life. God, I praise

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Speaker 2: you for your perfect care and consideration of my future

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Speaker 2: and for creating something so beautiful with my story in

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Speaker 2: your trustworthy name. Amen. If you liked what you heard today,

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