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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 1: Your Father in Heaven. No matter what's happening in.

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

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Speaker 2: hear from you. Right after the short word from our sponsors,

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Speaker 2: we'll pray through today's prayer of hope for.

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Speaker 1: God's promises to be fulfilled.

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Speaker 2: A Prayer of Hope for God's Promises to be fulfilled

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Speaker 2: written by Clarence Aymes, read by Leah Gerard. I remain

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Speaker 2: confident of this. I will see the goodness of the

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Speaker 2: Lord in the land of the Living. Wait for the Lord.

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Speaker 2: Be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord,

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Speaker 2: Psalm twenty seven thirteen through fourteen. Promises are great, but

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Speaker 2: the truth is they're only as good as the person

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Speaker 2: making the promise. If their word is no good, then

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Speaker 2: the promise is worthless. Have you ever lent money to

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Speaker 2: that friend who promised to pay you back. While there

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Speaker 2: may be a small part of you that wanted to believe,

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Speaker 2: deep down inside, you knew you'd probably never see that

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Speaker 2: money again. While there are many people out there who

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Speaker 2: offer empty promises, Thankfully God does not his promises are

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Speaker 2: dependable and you can bank.

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Speaker 1: Your life on them.

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Speaker 2: However, like all promises, they happen in stages. In the

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Speaker 2: first stage, God makes the promise. Excitement usually accompanies this

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Speaker 2: as the promise brings expectation and hope.

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Speaker 1: In the final stage, God fulfills the promise.

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Speaker 2: This is also exciting because the expectation and hope have

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Speaker 2: become a reality.

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Speaker 1: Sitting between those two is the waiting.

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Speaker 2: This is by far the most challenging stage. If you're

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Speaker 2: like me, you probably don't enjoy waiting because this is

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Speaker 2: where your faith gets tested and your hope gets challenged.

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Speaker 1: Will God do what he said?

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Speaker 2: While the answer is yes, you just might have to

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Speaker 2: wait to see it. The issue with waiting is that

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Speaker 2: you don't know if you'll have to wait days, months,

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Speaker 2: or years. Though God's promises can inspire hope within you,

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Speaker 2: waiting con dim the light of that hope. When your

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Speaker 2: waiting period feels too long, that's when questions arise and

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Speaker 2: hope faith. You've been praying for a long time, and

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Speaker 2: you wonder if that person will ever get saved. After

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Speaker 2: battling illness for years, You question if your body will

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Speaker 2: ever be healed despite your best efforts. You still ponder

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Speaker 2: if your financial breakthrough is ever going to happen. Regardless

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Speaker 2: of your situation, Waiting on God in these situations can

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Speaker 2: be overwhelming. You may even feel should take matters into

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Speaker 2: your own hands because you think God is moving too slow.

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Speaker 2: I've tried that before and discovered that rarely works out well.

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Speaker 2: That's why the challenge of faith in God's promises is

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Speaker 2: not at the beginning or the end. It's in the middle.

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Speaker 2: My suspicion is that many of you may be in

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Speaker 2: the middle. You're trusting God's promises, but you've not seen

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Speaker 2: the fulfillment, and you're possibly at the place where your

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Speaker 2: hope is wearing thin. In these moments, the tendency is

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Speaker 2: to want to pull back, but this is precisely the

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Speaker 2: time to lean in even further. Instead of praying less,

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Speaker 2: pray more. Rather than worshiping less, worship more. Instead of

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Speaker 2: letting go of God's promises, hold on to them tighter.

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Speaker 1: None of these things.

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Speaker 2: Will cause God's promise to come to pass any faster,

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Speaker 2: but they will give you the grace to endure while

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Speaker 2: you're waiting. I wish I could tell you when God

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Speaker 2: is going to fulfill his promise in your life, but

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Speaker 2: I can't. What I can tell you is He is

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Speaker 2: faithful and will never leave you nor forsake you. We

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Speaker 2: used to say he may not come when you want him,

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Speaker 2: but he will always be on time. My friend, that

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Speaker 2: is true. Honestly, I wish there were no gaps between

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Speaker 2: God's promise and fulfillment, but ultimately that would be to

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Speaker 2: our disadvantage. It's in the waiting that God builds your

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Speaker 2: character and you truly learn how to trust him. I'm

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Speaker 2: not saying these lessons are fun to go through, but

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Speaker 2: when you look back, you will see how God was

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Speaker 2: molding and shaping you all along. So don't be discouraged

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Speaker 2: in waiting. Instead, know that if God has promised it,

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Speaker 2: he will do it. Until then, wait on the Lord

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Speaker 2: and be strong in heart, because you will see his

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Speaker 2: goodness in the land of the living. Those are not

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Speaker 2: my words, they are his. Let's pray, Heavenly Father, thank

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Speaker 2: you for your promises. But if I'm being honest, I'm

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Speaker 2: growing tired of waiting for you to fulfill them. Help

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Speaker 2: me as I sit in this place, I'm asking for

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Speaker 2: your spirit and your word to refresh me, give me

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Speaker 2: more grace to live into your promises and to sit

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Speaker 2: in your presence so I can find the strength and

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Speaker 2: help I need to keep going. I ask that you

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Speaker 2: will help me to not lose heart and make my

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Speaker 2: faith strong.

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Speaker 1: Lord.

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Speaker 2: I ask that you bring to pass what you've promised

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Speaker 2: sooner rather than later. But until you do, help me

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Speaker 2: walk with you in unwavering faith, confident that your word

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Speaker 2: is true and you never go back.

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Speaker 1: On your promises.

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Speaker 2: Remind me again of your faithfulness, and let that be

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Speaker 2: the assurance that I rest in. Until you fulfill your promise.

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Speaker 2: I'll continue to thank you for honoring your word, knowing.

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Speaker 1: You will do what you said you would do.

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Speaker 2: Let that hope live in me daily as I walk

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Speaker 2: with you in Jesus name.

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Speaker 1: Amen.

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