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Speaker 1: Life Audio.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to the Crosswalk devotional. We are so thankful to

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Speaker 2: have you listening with us here today. Today's topic is

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Speaker 2: about waiting for your prayers to be answered. We will

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Speaker 2: return after a brief message from our sponsor. My prayer

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Speaker 2: is still in the queue. Written by Lauren Fletcher, red

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Speaker 2: by Rochelle ALBERTI Bible reading. Keep on asking and you

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Speaker 2: will receive what you ask for. Keep on seeking and

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Speaker 2: you will find. Keep on knocking and the door will

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Speaker 2: be open to you. For everyone who asks receives, everyone

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Speaker 2: who seeks finds, and to everyone who knocks, the door

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Speaker 2: will be opened. Matthew seven seven through eight. Something I've

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Speaker 2: been learning is the importance of patience and prayer. Often

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Speaker 2: I expect and hope God to answer right away. I'll

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Speaker 2: be praying so desperately hoping to hear his response. When

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Speaker 2: I don't hear anything, I wonder, God, are you answering

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Speaker 2: my prayer. This happened recently when I was praying for something.

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Speaker 2: What God revealed to me is that He was answering

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Speaker 2: my prayer, but it was still in the cue. Do

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Speaker 2: you remember the days of downloading music If you downloaded

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Speaker 2: multiple things at once, the computer would download about three

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Speaker 2: and all the others ran the queue waiting to be downloaded.

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Speaker 2: I remember how impatient I would feel eager to listen

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Speaker 2: to those songs. It was a wait. Eventually, though I

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Speaker 2: would be able to play them. In this illustration, God

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Speaker 2: help me to understand that sometimes my prayers are in

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Speaker 2: the queue. God has heard them, he has answered them,

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Speaker 2: but I have to wait for a little while for

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Speaker 2: those answers. They're in the works. Matthews seven seven through

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Speaker 2: eight encourages me that God not only listens to my prayers,

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Speaker 2: but answers them. He says that everyone who asks receives

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Speaker 2: emphasis added. So when I pray, he responds. Intersecting faith

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Speaker 2: in life, what do we do when we are desperate

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Speaker 2: to fear from God? According to this passage in Matthew,

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Speaker 2: we keep praying. We continually seek his help and look

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Speaker 2: for him. He tells us that he will answer. So

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Speaker 2: what do we do when our prayers are in the queue.

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Speaker 2: We must learn to patiently wait. We must trust in

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Speaker 2: God as we wait. Scriptures like Psalm thirty four and

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Speaker 2: forty comfort me. But I am desperate to hear from

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Speaker 2: the Lord. And Psalm thirty four, It says in my desperation,

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Speaker 2: I pray, and the Lord listened, and he saved me

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Speaker 2: from all my troubles Psalm thirty four six. David says

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Speaker 2: in Psalm forty one, I listened patiently for the Lord

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Speaker 2: to help me, and he turned to me and he

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Speaker 2: heard my cry. It goes on to tell of how

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Speaker 2: the Lord helped David and was faithful to him. When

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Speaker 2: we are in need of God's help and cry out

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Speaker 2: to him, he will not fail us. We can trust

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Speaker 2: in him when we are waiting on God in that

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Speaker 2: challenging space. How do we know God is trustworthy? We know,

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Speaker 2: but can trust God because of his track record and

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Speaker 2: also because of his word in the Bible. There are

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Speaker 2: many stories of God's faithfulness to his people. His word

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Speaker 2: also tells us of his character. And you have done

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Speaker 2: what you promised for you are always true to your

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Speaker 2: word N'amiah nine eighty. In Psalms it says, for the

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Speaker 2: word of the Lord holds true, and we can trust

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Speaker 2: everything he does. He loves whatever is just and good.

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Speaker 2: The unfailing love of the Lord fills the earth Psalm

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Speaker 2: thirty three four through five. God is so good. Following

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Speaker 2: the passage about asking, seeking, and knocking, Jesus says you parents,

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Speaker 2: if your children ask for a loaf of bread, do

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Speaker 2: you give them a stone instead? Or if they ask

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Speaker 2: for a fish, do you give them a snake? Course

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Speaker 2: not so. If you sinful people know how to give

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Speaker 2: good gifts to your children, how much you are, will

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Speaker 2: your heavenly Father give good gifts to those who ask him?

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Speaker 2: Matthew seven nine through eleven. We can trust God in

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Speaker 2: the waiting. We can trust him when our prayers are

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Speaker 2: in the queue. We are assured that he hears every word,

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Speaker 2: and that he knows what we wild for we even

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Speaker 2: ask him, and that he answers our prayers. Psalm thirty four.

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Speaker 2: Matthew six', Eight, lord thank you that we can trust

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Speaker 2: you in the, waiting that you are a Faithful. God

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Speaker 2: we thank you that you are faithful to answer every.

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Speaker 2: Prayer we love you In jesus'.

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Speaker 2: Amen further Reading matthew six,' eight neamiah nine NINE, Eight

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Speaker 2: b matthew seven seven, Through eleven luke eleven one, Through

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Speaker 2: thirteen james one sixteen, Through Seventeen second samuel twenty two,

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Speaker 2: Thirty one psalm thirty three four, Through five psalm Thirty

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Speaker 2: four psalm forty one.

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