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Speaker 1: Battle that won't End. A Prayer for the Battle that
Speaker 1: Won't End, written by Rachel Bojo, read by Kerrie Eiberger.
Speaker 1: I love the Lord, for he heard my voice, he
Speaker 1: heard my cry for mercy, because he turned his ear
Speaker 1: to me. I will call on him as long as
Speaker 1: I live. The chords of death entangled me. The anguish
Speaker 1: of the grave came over me. I was overcome by
Speaker 1: distress and sorrow. Then I called on the name of
Speaker 1: the Lord Lord save me. Saw m One sixteen versus
Speaker 1: one through four. I had been sleeping with one ear
Speaker 1: turned to hear any little noise for twelve years. That
Speaker 1: night the seizure barged into the dark, and I knew
Speaker 1: what it meant. My daughter Taylor had been diagnosed with
Speaker 1: a rare metabolic disorder for eight years. At that point,
Speaker 1: we had found a seizure medication that worked, and for
Speaker 1: a while it really did work. Relief from the terror
Speaker 1: of unpredictable seizures came and I started to breathe a
Speaker 1: little easier again. The word stable felt like such a gift.
Speaker 1: But then her body adapted. The drug that held her
Speaker 1: last month did it hold? And if you've ever encountered
Speaker 1: this kind of medical roller coaster, ride your back at
Speaker 1: square one. Now you start the new medication, and it's
Speaker 1: a weight and see issue that feels like an awful game.
Speaker 1: Under all of it. The truth you never allowed to
Speaker 1: leave your head and come out of your mouth is
Speaker 1: that the list of medications is limited. One day we
Speaker 1: will have tried them all. After the seizure passed, I
Speaker 1: sat down beside her bed and turned the lights back off,
Speaker 1: and I wept. I wanted to trade places with her,
Speaker 1: I remember wanting that very clearly. I would have taken it,
Speaker 1: all of it, the whole disorder, into my own body,
Speaker 1: if someone had offered me the chance. I wished her
Speaker 1: a portion could be mine. I wished mine could be
Speaker 1: something other than sit in a dark room watching my
Speaker 1: daughter's brain betray her on a schedule. Neither one of
Speaker 1: us could predict or stop if you're in a fight
Speaker 1: that resets every time you think you're gaining ground, you
Speaker 1: know this place. Maybe yours is a diagnosis, or an
Speaker 1: addiction that keeps circling back, or a marriage that heals
Speaker 1: just enough to break again. The details change, but the
Speaker 1: exhaustion never ends. Sawhim one sixteen opens with a man
Speaker 1: who has been there. Check out how he says it.
Speaker 1: The chords of death entangled me. The anguish of the
Speaker 1: grave came over me. This isn't a man reflecting on
Speaker 1: a hard week from a comfortable chair. This is someone
Speaker 1: who has been in a dark room, maybe lying prostrate
Speaker 1: on the floor. I appreciate what he did in the dark.
Speaker 1: He cried out, Lord save me. I find it interesting
Speaker 1: how he opens the psalm, because he tells you the
Speaker 1: end result before he tells you the story. I love
Speaker 1: the Lord for he heard my voice, He heard my
Speaker 1: cry for mercy heard. He doesn't begin with what God fixed.
Speaker 1: He begins by noting that God listened because he turned
Speaker 1: his ear to me. I will call on him as
Speaker 1: long as I live. Picture in your mind what turning
Speaker 1: his ear looked like. It's the motion of someone leaning,
Speaker 1: It's a focus on a voice. They don't want to miss.
Speaker 1: It's not the posture of a king on a high
Speaker 1: throne receiving a formal report. It's the place of a
Speaker 1: parent in a dark room at three am. I couldn't
Speaker 1: fix Taylor. I sat in that room with empty hands
Speaker 1: more nights than I can tell you. Thankfully, I wasn't
Speaker 1: sitting there alone, and I isn't talking to the ceiling.
Speaker 1: God could have stopped the seizure but didn't, but he
Speaker 1: was leaning in the whole time. I want to be
Speaker 1: honest with you. His answer wasn't the one I wanted.
Speaker 1: But we treat God hearing us like it's a consolation prize,
Speaker 1: don't we? Hearing is the promise He turned his ear
Speaker 1: to mine. He was there in a way I can't
Speaker 1: fully explain and couldn't measure, and the Psalmist tells us
Speaker 1: what that does to a person. I will call on
Speaker 1: him as long as I live, not because I got
Speaker 1: what I wanted in the moment, because he listened. Friend,
Speaker 1: you may not get the rescue you're asking for and
Speaker 1: the way you're asking for it. I need to share
Speaker 1: that plainly, because you've probably been toil otherwise and it
Speaker 1: didn't turn out to be true. But you are heard
Speaker 1: right now, in the dark, mid sentence, before you find
Speaker 1: the right words, he is already leaning in. His presence
Speaker 1: in the battle is a gift. Will you pray with me?
Speaker 1: Heavenly Father, you know the room I'm sitting in. You
Speaker 1: know the thing that keeps coming back just when I
Speaker 1: think it's handled. I'm starting over, and I'm so tired
Speaker 1: of starting over. Your word says you heard a man
Speaker 1: who had nothing left but a cry, and you turn
Speaker 1: your ear toward him. God turned your ear toward me.
Speaker 1: Not because I've prayed well or believe hard enough, but
Speaker 1: because that's who you are. Father. I confess I've measured
Speaker 1: your love by whether you fixed my problem. Forgive me,
Speaker 1: help me hold the truth that you are listening even
Speaker 1: when nothing changes, and that you are leaning in when
Speaker 1: the room is dark and quiet. I don't know how
Speaker 1: this ends on this side of heaven, but you do.
Speaker 1: Let that be enough for tonight. I love you, Lord,
Speaker 1: because you hear me in Jesus' name. Amen. If you're
Speaker 1: still praying and starting to wonder if it's working, Rachel
Speaker 1: Wojo wrote Praying through Life's Battles ninety days to strengthen
Speaker 1: your faith for you. You can pre order it now
Speaker 1: at Battleprayers dot com. Until next time, remember God sees you,
Speaker 1: hears you, and he knows your needs. Your Daily Prayer
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