1 00:00:02,720 --> 00:00:03,520 Speaker 1: Life Audio. 2 00:00:14,240 --> 00:00:17,239 Speaker 2: You're listening to every day prayers with million praying moms 3 00:00:17,280 --> 00:00:19,680 Speaker 2: helping you pray God's word for your family in the 4 00:00:19,760 --> 00:00:20,960 Speaker 2: areas you need it most. 5 00:00:21,320 --> 00:00:24,759 Speaker 1: I'm your host, Nicolette Bell. Here, we believe prayer isn't 6 00:00:24,800 --> 00:00:25,800 Speaker 1: a last resort. 7 00:00:26,079 --> 00:00:29,760 Speaker 2: It's our first and best response in parenting, and every 8 00:00:29,840 --> 00:00:32,159 Speaker 2: day we come together to partner with God for the 9 00:00:32,200 --> 00:00:35,480 Speaker 2: hearts of our children. Today's devotion is written and read 10 00:00:35,520 --> 00:00:39,160 Speaker 2: by Jennifer duke's Lee, author of her new book How 11 00:00:39,280 --> 00:00:42,479 Speaker 2: to Love Your Morning of faith filled habits to build 12 00:00:42,520 --> 00:00:45,000 Speaker 2: a life of joy and purpose one day. 13 00:00:44,800 --> 00:00:45,400 Speaker 1: At a time. 14 00:00:46,120 --> 00:00:49,920 Speaker 2: In today's devotion, Jennifer invites us into our prayer for 15 00:00:50,040 --> 00:00:53,400 Speaker 2: when we need God to show up. After a quick 16 00:00:53,400 --> 00:00:56,400 Speaker 2: word from our sponsors, we'll pray together for our families. 17 00:00:58,960 --> 00:01:04,480 Speaker 3: First King's seventeen, verse six, The ravens brought him bread 18 00:01:04,720 --> 00:01:08,399 Speaker 3: and meat in the morning, and bread and meat in 19 00:01:08,440 --> 00:01:13,760 Speaker 3: the evening. Have you ever experienced God's provision in a 20 00:01:13,800 --> 00:01:17,880 Speaker 3: way you never could have predicted, right when you needed 21 00:01:17,920 --> 00:01:21,680 Speaker 3: it most. It happened to me at an airport at 22 00:01:21,720 --> 00:01:25,800 Speaker 3: six a m sharp. Our daughter was heading out to 23 00:01:25,840 --> 00:01:29,959 Speaker 3: serve in long term ministry at a church on the 24 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:34,240 Speaker 3: other side of the world. Just before she passed through 25 00:01:34,360 --> 00:01:39,200 Speaker 3: the TSA checkpoint, she turned around and mouthed the words 26 00:01:39,600 --> 00:01:43,399 Speaker 3: I love you, forming her hands into the shape of 27 00:01:43,440 --> 00:01:49,400 Speaker 3: a heart. As she disappeared, I bawled my eyes out. 28 00:01:49,920 --> 00:01:54,560 Speaker 3: A woman nearby approached me and said, your daughter's been 29 00:01:54,600 --> 00:01:59,279 Speaker 3: called on mission, hasn't she. She'll do just fine, God 30 00:01:59,560 --> 00:02:06,000 Speaker 3: goes with her. I nodded and cried on a stranger's shoulder. 31 00:02:07,000 --> 00:02:09,959 Speaker 3: She told me her own daughter had been sent overseas 32 00:02:10,040 --> 00:02:14,880 Speaker 3: on long term mission years earlier. God met me through 33 00:02:14,960 --> 00:02:21,280 Speaker 3: this unexpected person with exactly the words I needed. That 34 00:02:21,360 --> 00:02:26,079 Speaker 3: moment has stayed with me in a way. That woman 35 00:02:26,320 --> 00:02:31,360 Speaker 3: was what I call a modern day raven. Let me 36 00:02:31,440 --> 00:02:35,320 Speaker 3: tell you more. Last year I studied all two hundred 37 00:02:35,320 --> 00:02:39,120 Speaker 3: plus mornings mentioned in scripture, and I came across a 38 00:02:39,200 --> 00:02:45,280 Speaker 3: morning story about ravens tucked into First Kings seventeen. It 39 00:02:45,360 --> 00:02:49,040 Speaker 3: made me smile, and it goes like this. The ravens 40 00:02:49,200 --> 00:02:55,560 Speaker 3: brought Elijah bread and meat in the morning. In this passage, 41 00:02:55,720 --> 00:03:00,440 Speaker 3: the prophet Elijah was alone in the carath ravine, cut 42 00:03:00,520 --> 00:03:06,520 Speaker 3: off from normal provision of food and drink. But God provided, 43 00:03:07,360 --> 00:03:13,559 Speaker 3: not through an angel or another prophet, but through ravens. 44 00:03:14,120 --> 00:03:17,720 Speaker 3: And you just gotta love this, right ravens. It's like 45 00:03:17,800 --> 00:03:23,720 Speaker 3: the world's first door dash delivery by beak. This wasn't 46 00:03:23,880 --> 00:03:30,160 Speaker 3: just unlikely, it was borderline scandalous. Jews considered ravens to 47 00:03:30,240 --> 00:03:38,520 Speaker 3: be ceremonially unclean and undesirable. Granted, Elijah wasn't eating a raven, 48 00:03:38,800 --> 00:03:43,280 Speaker 3: which God had forbidden in Leviticus eleven thirteen through fifteen, 49 00:03:44,080 --> 00:03:48,560 Speaker 3: but he was certainly depending on one. To me, this 50 00:03:48,720 --> 00:03:53,000 Speaker 3: moment proves that God often works in ways that defy 51 00:03:53,760 --> 00:03:59,720 Speaker 3: conventional expectations. It's a reminder that God is running the 52 00:03:59,720 --> 00:04:05,000 Speaker 3: show and he can use whatever means necessary to care 53 00:04:05,440 --> 00:04:11,360 Speaker 3: for us. He is endlessly creative. These days, when I 54 00:04:11,520 --> 00:04:17,920 Speaker 3: need God's help, I find myself praying a simple prayer, Lord, 55 00:04:18,680 --> 00:04:23,600 Speaker 3: send the ravens. When I pray that prayer, I'm saying, 56 00:04:23,839 --> 00:04:31,080 Speaker 3: God show up. However you choose. God's provision is rarely predictable, 57 00:04:31,800 --> 00:04:39,320 Speaker 3: but it is always personal. For Elijah, provision looked like ravens. 58 00:04:40,279 --> 00:04:43,799 Speaker 3: For the Israelites in the wilderness, it looked like manna 59 00:04:44,320 --> 00:04:49,080 Speaker 3: bread from heaven. For me, it looked like another mom 60 00:04:49,440 --> 00:04:56,880 Speaker 3: at tsa. Sometimes God's provision comes through people. Other times 61 00:04:57,040 --> 00:05:01,800 Speaker 3: it's a peace we can't explain, or a strength we 62 00:05:01,920 --> 00:05:06,000 Speaker 3: didn't have yesterday. Where do you. 63 00:05:06,120 --> 00:05:11,800 Speaker 4: Need God to show up unexpectedly today? Name what you 64 00:05:11,920 --> 00:05:19,479 Speaker 4: need from Him and then pray this prayer. Father, open 65 00:05:19,560 --> 00:05:24,599 Speaker 4: my eyes to the provision you send, and steady my 66 00:05:24,720 --> 00:05:29,400 Speaker 4: heart as I wait. I place my needs in your 67 00:05:29,640 --> 00:05:37,240 Speaker 4: loving hands. Today, Lord, send the ravens in Jesus' name. 68 00:05:38,200 --> 00:05:42,280 Speaker 2: Amen, friend, it is not too late to join us 69 00:05:42,320 --> 00:05:45,400 Speaker 2: for our summer book club featuring the book When Mothering 70 00:05:45,520 --> 00:05:48,680 Speaker 2: Is Hard and no One sees by my friend Selene Roberts. 71 00:05:48,720 --> 00:05:51,200 Speaker 2: It's happening now through the end of July, and we 72 00:05:51,279 --> 00:05:54,000 Speaker 2: want you to join us. Head to the homepage of 73 00:05:54,040 --> 00:05:57,880 Speaker 2: our website, Millionprayingmoms dot com to find out more and 74 00:05:58,120 --> 00:06:01,440 Speaker 2: use the code book Club to twenty for twenty percent 75 00:06:01,480 --> 00:06:04,040 Speaker 2: off your order from our mom shop. 76 00:06:04,600 --> 00:06:08,520 Speaker 1: Until next time, Friends, the Lord bless you and keep you. 77 00:06:09,480 --> 00:06:12,280 Speaker 1: Make His face shine upon you and be. 78 00:06:12,279 --> 00:06:16,000 Speaker 2: Gracious to you. May the Lord look with favor on 79 00:06:16,120 --> 00:06:17,599 Speaker 2: you and give you peace.