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Speaker 1: Life Audio.

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Speaker 2: You're listening to Everyday Prayers with Million Praying Moms, helping

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Speaker 2: you pray God's word for your family in the areas

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Speaker 2: they need it most. I'm your host, Nicolette Bell. Here

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Speaker 2: we believe prayer isn't a last resort. It's our first

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Speaker 2: and best response in parenting, and every day we come

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Speaker 2: together to partner with God for the hearts of our children.

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Speaker 1: Today's devotion is written and read by Scheline Roberts.

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Speaker 2: We're continuing on in our summer book club featuring her

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Speaker 2: new book When Mothering Is Hard and No One Sees.

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Speaker 2: This is week six of the book club. If you

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Speaker 2: haven't been with us the whole time, don't tune out.

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Speaker 2: There's something here for you. Today we continue to unpack

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Speaker 2: sacred habits that help us abide in Christ in the

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Speaker 2: midst of motherhood. I am loving these practical tips from

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Speaker 2: a mom of five who was in the throes of

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Speaker 2: the day to day grime. She gets us and is

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Speaker 2: offering really great tips for us to put into practice

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Speaker 2: this very week. To find out more about Shallen our

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Speaker 2: summer book Glove, or to learn more about the ministry

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Speaker 2: of Million Praying Moms, visit Millionpraying moms dot com.

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Speaker 1: You'll find a link in our show notes.

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Speaker 2: After a quick word from our sponsors, we'll pray together

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Speaker 2: for our family.

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Speaker 3: A prayer for the weary mom p som forty six

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Speaker 3: y ten. Be still and know that I am God.

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Speaker 3: If you've been walking with us through when mothering is

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Speaker 3: hard and new and sees, you know we've been unpacking

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Speaker 3: the sacred habits that help us abide in Christ in

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Speaker 3: the midst of motherhood. This week, in chapters eleven and twelve,

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Speaker 3: we turn to two practices that might feel like luxuries

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Speaker 3: in a season of survival mode, staying connected to the

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Speaker 3: buying through God's word and the gift of rest God

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Speaker 3: has so graciously given us. But before we go further,

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Speaker 3: I want us to take some time to sit with

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Speaker 3: the command from forty six ten, because I think it

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Speaker 3: holds the key to both of these disciplines. As moms,

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Speaker 3: a rashing sense of hurry is a tool or trade.

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Speaker 3: We hurry to pick up our children from practice, and

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Speaker 3: we hurry to drop them off at school. We hurry

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Speaker 3: to get dinner on the table, and we hurry to

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Speaker 3: check our children's homework. Many of us hurry through day

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Speaker 3: after day, year after year, until we look back and

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Speaker 3: wonder where the hurried decades went. It's no wonder then,

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Speaker 3: that in our phrenetic pace, we might read Psalm forty

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Speaker 3: six to ten and interpret be still to mean that

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Speaker 3: we must sit without moving. And if you're anything like me,

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Speaker 3: your initial reaction to that interpretation is probably something like, yeah, right,

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Speaker 3: have you seen my home? In this family, There's no

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Speaker 3: way I can sit and be still? Have you met

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Speaker 3: my kids? If I indulge in a moment of stillness,

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Speaker 3: there's going to be trouble. Believe me, I get it.

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Speaker 3: I understand that trying to be still as a mom

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Speaker 3: versus on the impossible. And it's not just moms of

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Speaker 3: littles who struggle with this. So we all do, no

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Speaker 3: matter the ages or stages of our children, because every

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Speaker 3: single one of us is surrounded by a society that

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Speaker 3: celebrates busyness, and we've been indoctrinated into it. It's our

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Speaker 3: cultural norm, and we're not really sure how to function

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Speaker 3: without it. So we read a verse like Psalm forty

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Speaker 3: six yten and we think there's no way we can

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Speaker 3: quiet the busyness or calm the chaos long enough to

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Speaker 3: be still, But that's not what God is asking of

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Speaker 3: us here. In fact, the Hebrew word for still in

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Speaker 3: this verse is rafa, and it literally means to sink,

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Speaker 3: to relax, to cease striving. This isn't a command to

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Speaker 3: stop moving. It's an invitation to cease your soul's exhausting,

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Speaker 3: relentless striving, to lay down the grip you've had on.

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Speaker 3: Rest is something you have to earn or schedule or

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Speaker 3: finally arrive at once the laundry's done and the kids

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Speaker 3: are grown. And when God commands us to be still

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Speaker 3: and know that he is God, he is inbiting us

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Speaker 3: to surrender and rest in the refuge of his safe

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Speaker 3: shelter and his good provision. So press into Him, even

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Speaker 3: in the midst of the swirling chaos, especially in the

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Speaker 3: midst of it, when you're in the car or at

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Speaker 3: your desk, when you're taming a tempered tantrum or wiping

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Speaker 3: tears or teaching algebra, when you're exhausted and poured out

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Speaker 3: and overwhelmed with worry. Cease your mental and emotional striving

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Speaker 3: and approach the Throne of Grace with honest prayers whispered

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Speaker 3: through tired lips. Throw the metaphorical apron over your head.

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Speaker 3: If you need to take your anxious, worried thoughts, give

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Speaker 3: them to the Lord and rest and the protection of

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Speaker 3: his grace. Cease striving and know that He is God,

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Speaker 3: and you will find rest for your soul. Let's pray. Lord,

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Speaker 3: we confess how often we've chased rest in all the

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Speaker 3: wrong places, in clear calendars, finished to do lists, in

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Speaker 3: seasons that never quite arrive. Forgive us for striving when

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Speaker 3: you've invited us simply to teach us to abide in

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Speaker 3: your word, even in small, imperfect moments, and teach us

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Speaker 3: to be still, to cease striving, and to know that

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Speaker 3: you are God and we can rest safely in your

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Speaker 3: care in Jesus name.

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Speaker 2: Pamen. I hope you are following along with us in

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Speaker 2: our summer book club featuring the book When Mothering Is

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Speaker 2: Hard and No One Sees by Scheline Roberts. If you

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Speaker 2: have not joined us yet, it's not too late to

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Speaker 2: jump in. Head to the homepage of our website to

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Speaker 2: find out more. Until next time, friends, the Lord bless

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Speaker 2: you and keep you. Make His face shine upon you,

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Speaker 2: and be gracious to you me. The Lord look with

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Speaker 2: favor on you and give you his peace