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Speaker 1: in your life today, you can trust that God wants

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Speaker 1: our sponsors, we'll pray through today's prayer for when circumstances

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Speaker 1: leave you feeling stuck. A prayer for when circumstances leave

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Speaker 1: you feeling stuck, written by Sophia Bricker, read by Leah Gerard.

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Speaker 1: As for me, I am afflicted and needy. May the

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Speaker 1: Lord think of me. You are my help and the

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Speaker 1: one who rescues me. Do not delay, O, my God,

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Speaker 1: Psalm forty seventeen. After visiting Rabbit in his home and

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Speaker 1: enjoying a little snack, Winnie the Pooh tried to leave

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Speaker 1: by going back through the hole that served as the

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Speaker 1: front door to Rabbit's burrow. Easy enough, However, he soon

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Speaker 1: found that a hole for a rabbit doesn't serve as

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Speaker 1: a suitable exit for a bear. He tried to move forward,

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Speaker 1: but when this proved unfruitful, he attempted to squeeze back through.

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Speaker 1: Nothing he did made any difference. He was stuck. What

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Speaker 1: was he to do? Christopher Robin's solution, wait, they would

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Speaker 1: wait a week, and then Winnie the Pooh could be

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Speaker 1: easily pushed through and freed. At hearing the timeline, though

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Speaker 1: the poor bear was distraught, As A. A. Milne wrote

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Speaker 1: on page twenty eight in The Complete Tales of Winnie

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Speaker 1: the Pooh, bear began to sigh, and then he found

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Speaker 1: he couldn't because he was tightly stuck, and a tear

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Speaker 1: rolled down his eye. We can sometimes feel like Pooh,

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Speaker 1: especially in seasons of life that leave us waiting or

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Speaker 1: wondering how to move forward. Try as we do, we

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Speaker 1: cannot find a way to remove ourselves from the situation,

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Speaker 1: and our ideas for remedies typically end in failure. At

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Speaker 1: these times, we can remember that although others may have

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Speaker 1: some control to assist us, there is someone who can

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Speaker 1: give us the help we need, and he will remain

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Speaker 1: with us in the waiting period. As we anticipate being

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Speaker 1: released from the confining circumstances. Like David in Psalm forty,

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Speaker 1: we can cry out to the Lord for help. Already

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Speaker 1: he had seen the deliverance that God had worked in

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Speaker 1: his life previously Psalm forty one through two shows us

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Speaker 1: he was pulled as if from a slimy pit and

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Speaker 1: placed on sturdy ground. The Lord gave him a new

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Speaker 1: song to sing, and we see in Psalm forty verses

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Speaker 1: three and ten that David did not stop himself from

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Speaker 1: speaking about the Lord's kindness. When troubles again surrounded him,

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Speaker 1: as they often did in his lifetime, David knew he

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Speaker 1: could turn to God. He honestly spoke to the Lord,

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Speaker 1: even in terms that we might be hesitant to use

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Speaker 1: when talking to the Lord. In essence, he told God

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Speaker 1: to hurry up with the rescue. He prayed in Psalm

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Speaker 1: forty thirteen, come quickly, Lord to help me. Desperation marked

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Speaker 1: David's please, even as he expressed gratitude for what the

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Speaker 1: Lord had accomplished before. Whenever we experienced the uncomfortable predicament

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Speaker 1: of being surrounded by troubles, we too can find hope

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Speaker 1: in the Lord who rescues. We might not be submerged

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Speaker 1: in mud and mire, or wedged in a hole, but

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Speaker 1: situations in life can leave us feeling stuck, as if

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Speaker 1: there's no way forward. At these times, it's good to

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Speaker 1: talk to the Lord and prayer and take our concerns

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Speaker 1: to him first. Peter five seven assures us that we

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Speaker 1: can trust that He cares about every circumstance that causes

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Speaker 1: us anxiety, and we should not fear being genuine with

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Speaker 1: our feelings when talking to God. He will not rebuke

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Speaker 1: us for our tears or close his ears to our

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Speaker 1: pleas for him to hurry and save us. The more

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Speaker 1: we turn to Him in our time of trouble, the

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Speaker 1: more we will find sustenance for the journey ahead and

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Speaker 1: a companion to stay with us as we wait for

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Speaker 1: a new season to start. Let's pray God, you are

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Speaker 1: my deliverer and ever present, help set me free from

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Speaker 1: my chains to sin, rescuing me when I was content

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Speaker 1: to remain shackled. How great is your love and grace

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Speaker 1: that you saved me and gave me a new life.

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Speaker 1: Why is it so hard, Lord to remember your deliverance?

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Speaker 1: Whenever I find myself stuck in life, The circumstances squeeze

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Speaker 1: in around me, growing tighter until I'm stuck Now. I

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Speaker 1: don't know how to find relief. Please God, help and

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Speaker 1: do not tarry. Come quickly to rescue me. But even

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Speaker 1: if the solution you provide isn't what I desire or expect.

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Speaker 1: Help me to want you more than the relief. Help

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Speaker 1: me find blessing in your presence As I endure the

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Speaker 1: process of waiting for those situations in life will fluctuate,

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Speaker 1: bringing a mix of trouble and joy. I can always

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Speaker 1: find hope in You, the Lord who saves. In Jesus' name,

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