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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: for fortitude to fight through tough times. Together, A prayer

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Speaker 2: for fortitude to fight through tough times, written and read

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Speaker 2: by carry out the righteous cry out, and the Lord

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Speaker 2: hears them. He delivers them from all their troubles. The

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Speaker 2: Lord is close to the broken hearted and saves those

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Speaker 2: who are crushed in spirit saw him thirty four verse

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Speaker 2: seventeen and eighteen. As I came to the finish of

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Speaker 2: my prayer time that morning, I fought back tears, but

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Speaker 2: my fight had worn too then, so they finally began

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Speaker 2: to flow. Eyes closed, heart breaking, tears streaming. Then suddenly,

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Speaker 2: the sweetest image surfaced in my mind. It was the

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Speaker 2: face of Jesus, and he was weeping with me. He

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Speaker 2: heard me, he saw me, he cried right alongside me.

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Speaker 2: And just like that, a comfort swept through my soul

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Speaker 2: and a slight strength began to swell out to the Lord.

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Speaker 2: I had looked to the Lord, and he looked back

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Speaker 2: with hurt, with heartache, with deep compassion, with a greater

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Speaker 2: love than I had ever known. And I would gladly

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Speaker 2: share what the source of my sorrow was on that

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Speaker 2: particular day and in that specific season. But this message

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Speaker 2: isn't about me. It's about the one who saw me

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Speaker 2: and the one who sees you. It doesn't really matter

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Speaker 2: what my struggle had been. You get it. You've been there.

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Speaker 2: You've felt deep aches and pains too. You've fought back

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Speaker 2: plenty of tears. You might be barely surviving a hard

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Speaker 2: season right now, and your strength is wearing thin. Once again,

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Speaker 2: I get it. It wasn't the first time my fight

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Speaker 2: began to falter. It certainly won't be the last. And

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Speaker 2: the same is true for you. But what's also true

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Speaker 2: for you is that Jesus Chris with him. It hurts

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Speaker 2: him to see you hurt too. It actually grieves him

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Speaker 2: deeply because he loves us deeply. Though he could change

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Speaker 2: anything in everything in an instant, he often doesn't, And

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Speaker 2: it ought to tell us something. He sees us suffer

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Speaker 2: and struggle, and even though it saddens him. Because he

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Speaker 2: loves us so much, he sometimes chooses not to change

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Speaker 2: a thing, also because he loves us so much, because

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Speaker 2: he knows that what we are going through is necessary.

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Speaker 2: He knows it's part of the master plan. He sees

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Speaker 2: what we can't see ahead. He sees that it is good.

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Speaker 2: Not only that, he knows it's better than what we

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Speaker 2: can imagine, better than what we can conceive right now. No,

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Speaker 2: not all things seem or feel good, but he absolutely

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Speaker 2: turns all things.

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Speaker 1: Too good for you and me who love him.

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Speaker 2: Before my tears fell, I had acknowledged that truth. I

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Speaker 2: painfully proclaimed that God would indeed redeem my heard situation.

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Speaker 2: But it wasn't until I saw the visible compassion in

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Speaker 2: his face that I truly began to grasp the good

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Speaker 2: and what I was going through that it really was

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Speaker 2: for my good under the tender love, care and control

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Speaker 2: of our good God. It was as if he wanted

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Speaker 2: to speak his comfort straight to my soul, these words

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Speaker 2: of compassion he wants you to hear too, My sweet child,

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Speaker 2: I am so sorry you have to go through this,

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Speaker 2: but you have to go through this in order to

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Speaker 2: receive the blessings I have in store the wonderful, inconceivable blessings.

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Speaker 2: But I am with you. I will hold you and

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Speaker 2: carry you. I will not leave you, not ever. Friend,

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Speaker 2: whatever it is that you're going through today, know that

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Speaker 2: the Lord sees you. He feels your pain and wants

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Speaker 2: to wrap his arms of grace, compassion and care around you.

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Speaker 2: Hear his soft whispers. Trust me, I am doing a

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Speaker 2: good thing. Keep leaning on me, Keep taking one step

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Speaker 2: at a time with me. Together, we will make it

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Speaker 2: to a more beautiful place. My goodness and love will

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Speaker 2: follow you and bless you. May you find strength today

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Speaker 2: and the God who sees you. May you be fortified

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Speaker 2: with confidence in the truth that God's compassion continually covers you,

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Speaker 2: and may you keep fighting forward. He is working. He

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Speaker 2: is with you now and forever. Let's pray. Precious Jesus,

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Speaker 2: you are closer than the air I breathe. You sit

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Speaker 2: with me and see me every single moment when I'm

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Speaker 2: running fast through my day or surrounded with sentiments of sorrow,

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Speaker 2: no matter where I am, you are there. I confess

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Speaker 2: I can become crushed in spirit when struggles swell in

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Speaker 2: my world and in my soul. But help me remember

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Speaker 2: how much my hurt also hurts you. Help me remember

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Speaker 2: how much you's love me. Help me remember that right

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Speaker 2: where I am is part of your good plan. Lord,

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Speaker 2: you are working out a beautiful redemption story, and so

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Speaker 2: I can hold hope, I can trust you. I can

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Speaker 2: cling to your love that never leaves me and your

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Speaker 2: care that will carry me one step and one day

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Speaker 2: at a time. I praise you for your compassion that

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Speaker 2: never fails and your care that never quits. In your

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

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