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Speaker 1: Life Audio.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for listening to your daily prayer, where we

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Speaker 2: help you find the words you need to connect to

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Speaker 2: your Father in Heaven. No matter what's happening in your

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Speaker 2: life today, you can trust that God wants.

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Speaker 1: To hear from you.

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Speaker 2: Right after this short word from our sponsors, we'll pray

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Speaker 2: through today's prayer to trust God's character when you can't

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Speaker 2: see his plan. A prayer to trust God's character when

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Speaker 2: you can't see his plan, written by Rachel Wojo, read

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Speaker 2: by Leah Gerard. Trust in the Lord with all your heart,

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Speaker 2: and lean not on your own understanding. In all your ways,

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Speaker 2: Submit to him, and he will make your paths straight

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Speaker 2: Proverbs three five through six. The day my husband lost

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Speaker 2: his job, I didn't panic. I told myself there had

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Speaker 2: to be a reason. God is in control, He has

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Speaker 2: a plan. Those words were true, but I'll be honest,

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Speaker 2: they felt thin in the days that followed. We had

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Speaker 2: children to feed and bills to pay. The future suddenly

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Speaker 2: felt very uncertain. I believed in God's character, I couldn't

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Speaker 2: see a single thing that looked like his plan, and

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Speaker 2: leaning not on my own understanding. God's a lot harder

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Speaker 2: when your own understanding is screaming that something has gone

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Speaker 2: terribly wrong. Even worse, something is going to go terribly wrong.

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Speaker 2: About a month in we were at church on a

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Speaker 2: Sunday morning during worship when the words of a song

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Speaker 2: rang out across the room.

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Speaker 1: I trust in God, my.

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Speaker 2: Savior, the one who will never fail, He will never fail.

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Speaker 2: I trust in God. Something happened in my heart in

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Speaker 2: that moment. My souls settled in with those words, and

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Speaker 2: God's presence was evident to me. My heart united with

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Speaker 2: those lyrics, and I sang them with everything I had.

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Speaker 2: I wasn't singing about my circumstances. I was singing about

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Speaker 2: his character. That's the distinction Proverbs three five through six

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Speaker 2: is making. I think it's interesting that the verse doesn't

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Speaker 2: say to trust in God's plan. It says trust in

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Speaker 2: the Lord. Trust in who he is, not just what

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Speaker 2: he's doing. There will be seasons when what he's doing

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Speaker 2: makes no common sense at all. The crossroads is where

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Speaker 2: we choose what we believe. Eight months passed before Matt

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Speaker 2: landed a contract job. Eight months of waiting and wondering,

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Speaker 2: then choosing to trust what we knew to be true

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Speaker 2: about God, even when it felt like we couldn't see

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Speaker 2: evidence of his provision in our bank account or our calendar.

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Speaker 2: When I look back at that season, the most significant

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Speaker 2: thing that happened during those eight months wasn't the provision

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Speaker 2: of a job. It was what God was doing inside

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Speaker 2: our family. He deepened our faith, He grew our trust

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Speaker 2: in his provision in ways that comfortable seasons can't produce.

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Speaker 2: He gave us a hope that He was always, always

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Speaker 2: in control. He will carry us through every hard season.

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Speaker 2: If you're in a waiting season right now, trusting a

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Speaker 2: God who's pa you cannot see, I want you to

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Speaker 2: know that his character has not changed.

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Speaker 1: He is still faithful, He has never failed. Whatever you're facing,

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Speaker 1: you can trust him with it. Let's pray heavenly Father.

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Speaker 1: I'll be honest with you.

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Speaker 2: I can't see what you're doing right now. The circumstances

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Speaker 2: in front of me don't look like a plan. They

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Speaker 2: look like a problem. My logic keeps trying to take

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Speaker 2: over and trying to figure out what you're doing and

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Speaker 2: why you're doing it this way. I know you're not

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Speaker 2: asking me to understand, you're asking me to trust. So

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Speaker 2: today I choose to lean on your character instead of

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Speaker 2: my confusion.

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Speaker 1: You are faithful, You are good.

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Speaker 2: You are a provider who has never once failed the

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Speaker 2: people who trust in you. That is who you are,

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Speaker 2: and that doesn't change based on what I can see.

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Speaker 2: Make my paths straight, Lord, even when the road ahead

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Speaker 2: is hidden from my view. Do the deep work in

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Speaker 2: me that only waiting can produce. And when fear tries

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Speaker 2: to convince me that you've forgotten me, bring me back

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Speaker 2: to what I know is true about you. I trust

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Speaker 2: in you, my Savior, the one who never fails.

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Speaker 1: In Jesus' name. Amen.

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