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Speaker 1: Life Audio.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for listening to your Daily Prayer, a podcast

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Speaker 2: dedicated to helping you find the words you need to

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Speaker 2: connect with your Father in Heaven. No matter what is

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Speaker 2: going on in your life today, you can trust that

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Speaker 2: 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 sponsor, you will

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Speaker 2: pray through today's prayer for when the Truth Hurts together

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Speaker 2: A Prayer for When the Truth Hurts written by Peyton Garland,

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Speaker 2: read by Carrie Iberger. But blessed is the one who

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Speaker 2: trusts in the Lord, whose confidence.

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Speaker 1: Is in him.

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Speaker 2: They will be like a tree planted by the water

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Speaker 2: that sends out its roots by the stream, does not

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Speaker 2: fear when heat comes. Its sleeves are always green. It

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Speaker 2: has no worries in a year of drought, and never

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Speaker 2: fails to bear fruit. Jeremiah seventeen, verse seven and eight.

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Speaker 2: There's a reason we lie. Whether it's as simple as

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Speaker 2: stivving that we enjoyed the meal our spouse cooked to us,

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Speaker 2: or as destructive as hiding a marital affair, we lie

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Speaker 2: because we have convinced ourselves that it saves pain, whether

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Speaker 2: for us, the other party, or both. Lies promise comfort,

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Speaker 2: but it's a false sense of security we too easily

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Speaker 2: lean on. But there's a reason lies are wrong. There's

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Speaker 2: a reason lying is one of the seven deadly sins.

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Speaker 2: Lying is a double edged sword, deceiving everyone involved. We

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Speaker 2: are speaking falsehoods to a spouse, friend, boss, etc. While

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Speaker 2: deceiving our souls with the ridiculous notion that lies won't

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Speaker 2: eventually be held to the light, that we won't self

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Speaker 2: distract and hurt others in our path. Both parties lose

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Speaker 2: every time a lie enters the conversation. Deceit erodes trust

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Speaker 2: that often can't be recovered. As Christians, we are a

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Speaker 2: people called to forgive, but in this human body, forgiveness

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Speaker 2: doesn't mean forgetfulness, And in the name of protecting ourselves,

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Speaker 2: we often close ourselves off to whoever broke our trust.

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Speaker 2: When the deceit was heavy and harmful, it only makes

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Speaker 2: sense that we step away, especially when the other person

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Speaker 2: shows no signs of remorse, repentance, or change. Unfortunately, it's

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Speaker 2: all too common that we readily displace our distrust of

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Speaker 2: one person onto whoever comes along next.

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Speaker 1: This new individual might.

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Speaker 2: Share surface level similarities with the one who hurt us,

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Speaker 2: perhaps in physical looks, mannerisms, career choices or even sense

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Speaker 2: of style. Yet they have done nothing to lose our trust.

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Speaker 2: This is where the truth hurts. This is when truth

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Speaker 2: becomes uncomfortable, because truth wants us to trust again. It's

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Speaker 2: not asking us to trust the person who betrayed our hearts.

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Speaker 2: It's asking us to love others with a love that

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Speaker 2: is open and vulnerable. It's asking us to give another

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Speaker 2: person a fair chance at being part of our lives.

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Speaker 2: It's a blind, but rewarding faith that says, perhaps you're

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Speaker 2: meant to be a blessing in my life, and allows

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Speaker 2: someone to prove themselves. This isn't easy, especially if lies

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Speaker 2: have ruined your perception of relationship of any We humans

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Speaker 2: are far more delicate than we often care to admit.

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Speaker 2: But that's why I recently shared with a friend that

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Speaker 2: broken hearts have great value because only the priceless things shatter,

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Speaker 2: but the good people, the ones we can trust, defy

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Speaker 2: the human tendency of fickleness and impatience, so they can

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Speaker 2: glue us back together peace by peace.

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Speaker 1: And as always, our God.

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Speaker 2: Never lets broken things go to waste. In fact, he

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Speaker 2: allows his light to shine through them the brightest. I'm

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Speaker 2: not asking you to throw caution to the wind, refuse

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Speaker 2: the gift of discernment, or ignore red flags. But what

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Speaker 2: I'm asking you to do is release the bitterness and

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Speaker 2: allow your heart to be free of the distrust you

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Speaker 2: place on others because of someone who hurt you in

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Speaker 2: the past. Instead, I'm asking you to trust and the

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Speaker 2: goodness of God and the plan he has for you.

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Speaker 2: The plan you must be fearless enough to step into.

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Speaker 2: It's one that, as Jeremiah promises, will forever bear fruit.

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Speaker 2: You owe it to yourself, others, and God to have

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Speaker 2: open hands that are brave enough and willing to receive

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Speaker 2: the blessings of a new friendship, a new chance at love,

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Speaker 2: and so on.

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Speaker 1: Allow God to mend.

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Speaker 2: What was torn, heal what was hurt, and restore all

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Speaker 2: that was lost.

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Speaker 1: Let's pray, Father, thank you for being a god we can.

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Speaker 2: Trust your loving faithfulness has proven itself over and over.

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Speaker 2: Grant us the grace to remember all the times you

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Speaker 2: have healed our hurts and placed wonderful people in our

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Speaker 2: lives as part of that healing journey. May we never

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Speaker 2: count out the blessing of friendship, marriage and love you

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Speaker 2: offer us, And may we be stewards of the relationships

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Speaker 2: you have presented to us. Allow your discernment to guide

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Speaker 2: us us and your hope to fill our hearts and

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Speaker 2: minds as we trust others when it's hard.

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Speaker 1: In your Holy namely pray Amen.

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