1 00:00:02,680 --> 00:00:03,520 Speaker 1: Life Audio. 2 00:00:06,600 --> 00:00:09,600 Speaker 2: Welcome to the Everyday Prayers Podcast with Million Praying Moms. 3 00:00:09,640 --> 00:00:13,640 Speaker 2: I'm your host Nicolette mel and today we have author 4 00:00:13,800 --> 00:00:18,200 Speaker 2: Rachel Adams joining us for our Friday conversation. Rachel, welcome 5 00:00:18,239 --> 00:00:18,720 Speaker 2: to the show. 6 00:00:19,520 --> 00:00:21,640 Speaker 1: Thanks for having me back again. It's a pleasure to 7 00:00:21,720 --> 00:00:22,079 Speaker 1: join you. 8 00:00:25,680 --> 00:00:29,120 Speaker 2: Yeah. So we're doing something different on Friday's in February 9 00:00:29,760 --> 00:00:34,160 Speaker 2: where we are highlighting Rachel's book, Everyday Prayers for Love 10 00:00:34,320 --> 00:00:39,200 Speaker 2: and having some conversation around loving God, loving others, and 11 00:00:39,240 --> 00:00:41,640 Speaker 2: even loving ourselves. So, Rachel, we are so glad to 12 00:00:41,680 --> 00:00:44,440 Speaker 2: have you with us for this conversation. Last week with Rachel, 13 00:00:44,479 --> 00:00:47,760 Speaker 2: we talked about receiving God's love and what it looks 14 00:00:47,840 --> 00:00:50,680 Speaker 2: like that God is the origin of love. He is 15 00:00:50,840 --> 00:00:53,360 Speaker 2: love and we have to receive it as a gift 16 00:00:53,400 --> 00:00:55,080 Speaker 2: from Him. He can go back and check out that 17 00:00:55,160 --> 00:00:57,560 Speaker 2: episode if you missed it, or just jump in with 18 00:00:57,640 --> 00:00:59,800 Speaker 2: us today as we talk about what it means to 19 00:00:59,800 --> 00:01:02,640 Speaker 2: try really love God. Where are the markers of a 20 00:01:02,680 --> 00:01:05,560 Speaker 2: person who is who is loving God? So, Rachel, I 21 00:01:05,560 --> 00:01:08,120 Speaker 2: want you to start giving us a brief introduction of 22 00:01:08,240 --> 00:01:12,600 Speaker 2: you and then we'll jump into our conversation. Yeah. 23 00:01:12,800 --> 00:01:15,880 Speaker 1: I am the host of the Love Offering Podcast. We 24 00:01:15,920 --> 00:01:18,640 Speaker 1: are entering our eighth season and so we've been having 25 00:01:18,680 --> 00:01:23,320 Speaker 1: conversations about loving God and others and even ourselves for 26 00:01:23,319 --> 00:01:26,039 Speaker 1: the last eight years, and so that's an honor to do. 27 00:01:26,400 --> 00:01:29,959 Speaker 1: I'm also just an author and a mom of two 28 00:01:30,080 --> 00:01:33,320 Speaker 1: and a wife of twenty years, and we live in Kentucky, 29 00:01:33,440 --> 00:01:37,319 Speaker 1: so just live a quiet life here, but trying our 30 00:01:37,319 --> 00:01:39,760 Speaker 1: best to honor God through it all. 31 00:01:39,920 --> 00:01:43,240 Speaker 2: What I'm loving about our conversations, Rachel, we talked about 32 00:01:43,240 --> 00:01:45,319 Speaker 2: how loosely we use the word love, so there we go. 33 00:01:45,440 --> 00:01:46,120 Speaker 1: I see, yes. 34 00:01:47,920 --> 00:01:50,920 Speaker 2: But what I am enjoying about our conversations, and I 35 00:01:50,960 --> 00:01:53,520 Speaker 2: think that will be really neat for listeners, is you 36 00:01:53,560 --> 00:01:56,080 Speaker 2: are the mom of teenagers, right, and I am a 37 00:01:56,120 --> 00:01:58,280 Speaker 2: mom of a toddler and a newborn, so we're in 38 00:01:58,320 --> 00:02:00,800 Speaker 2: completely different stages of mother And that's what I love 39 00:02:00,840 --> 00:02:03,120 Speaker 2: about our community here on Million Preyed Moms is that 40 00:02:03,160 --> 00:02:05,760 Speaker 2: I can learn from you, somebody who's a couple steps 41 00:02:05,760 --> 00:02:09,880 Speaker 2: ahead of me, and we're all here learning together how 42 00:02:09,919 --> 00:02:12,120 Speaker 2: to pray God's word for our children and how to 43 00:02:12,160 --> 00:02:17,119 Speaker 2: intercede on their behalf. So let's get into talking about 44 00:02:17,280 --> 00:02:22,320 Speaker 2: loving God. What does it mean for us to really 45 00:02:22,760 --> 00:02:24,760 Speaker 2: love God does something that you know, if we ask 46 00:02:24,840 --> 00:02:27,919 Speaker 2: somebody who's a follower of Christ, like they would say like, yeah, 47 00:02:27,960 --> 00:02:30,360 Speaker 2: I love God, but what does that actually look like 48 00:02:30,480 --> 00:02:31,120 Speaker 2: in our lives. 49 00:02:31,240 --> 00:02:34,200 Speaker 1: Well, Jesus actually gave us the answer. He said, if 50 00:02:34,240 --> 00:02:36,760 Speaker 1: you love me, then you will keep my commands. And 51 00:02:36,800 --> 00:02:40,400 Speaker 1: so I actually believe that it looks like obedience. I 52 00:02:40,480 --> 00:02:43,280 Speaker 1: think it looks like us spending time with him, like 53 00:02:43,320 --> 00:02:47,040 Speaker 1: we talked about in the last episode, receiving his love 54 00:02:47,280 --> 00:02:50,040 Speaker 1: and being with him, and then when he does speak 55 00:02:50,080 --> 00:02:52,079 Speaker 1: to us through his word or through his Holy Spirit 56 00:02:52,560 --> 00:02:55,680 Speaker 1: or through other people who are led by the Holy Spirit, 57 00:02:56,720 --> 00:03:01,360 Speaker 1: actually living in a way that honors him and gives 58 00:03:01,440 --> 00:03:06,880 Speaker 1: him glory. And so this is challenging, definitely challenging, and 59 00:03:06,919 --> 00:03:09,600 Speaker 1: I don't always get it right, and I think there's 60 00:03:09,680 --> 00:03:12,760 Speaker 1: grace in the process. But He does have work for 61 00:03:12,880 --> 00:03:15,400 Speaker 1: us to do. He is doing work in the world. 62 00:03:15,520 --> 00:03:17,480 Speaker 1: And so how do we respond to that? What is 63 00:03:17,520 --> 00:03:22,880 Speaker 1: the posture of our heart? Is there fruit that lasts? 64 00:03:22,880 --> 00:03:25,320 Speaker 1: That talk about that, It talks about that in the 65 00:03:25,360 --> 00:03:27,640 Speaker 1: Book of John two, that love is the fruit that 66 00:03:27,680 --> 00:03:32,520 Speaker 1: will last. And so our lives have to be modeled 67 00:03:32,680 --> 00:03:36,440 Speaker 1: and emulate the life that Jesus did and the life 68 00:03:36,480 --> 00:03:39,920 Speaker 1: that it talks about, a life of godliness and holiness. 69 00:03:39,960 --> 00:03:42,600 Speaker 1: And so this is a lofty order, but I really 70 00:03:42,600 --> 00:03:46,240 Speaker 1: do think that it's something that we are being sanctified 71 00:03:46,280 --> 00:03:49,640 Speaker 1: in and that we can grow in throughout our Christian walk. 72 00:03:49,680 --> 00:03:51,680 Speaker 1: And I think one of the things that really convicts 73 00:03:51,720 --> 00:03:54,720 Speaker 1: me it's in the Book of Revelation and it talks 74 00:03:54,720 --> 00:03:58,880 Speaker 1: about how he's talking to some of these churches and 75 00:03:58,920 --> 00:04:00,800 Speaker 1: he says, I know you're a good deeds and all 76 00:04:00,880 --> 00:04:02,480 Speaker 1: the things that you've done, all your hard work and 77 00:04:02,520 --> 00:04:06,800 Speaker 1: all your perseverance, but you've forsaken your first love. And 78 00:04:06,840 --> 00:04:09,800 Speaker 1: so I think we've got to get back to Yes, 79 00:04:09,840 --> 00:04:11,760 Speaker 1: we can be doing all these things, but why are 80 00:04:11,760 --> 00:04:14,680 Speaker 1: we doing it? What is the true heart motivation behind 81 00:04:14,800 --> 00:04:18,560 Speaker 1: what we're doing. And that's my hope for myself and 82 00:04:18,600 --> 00:04:20,920 Speaker 1: for all of us listening, is that we do everything 83 00:04:20,920 --> 00:04:24,080 Speaker 1: in love, but we remember you know who it's actually 84 00:04:24,120 --> 00:04:26,920 Speaker 1: for to begin with. And as a believer, I've been 85 00:04:27,400 --> 00:04:30,520 Speaker 1: I was saved in middle school and have obviously grown 86 00:04:30,680 --> 00:04:33,799 Speaker 1: in my relationship with the Lord. But I think when 87 00:04:33,800 --> 00:04:37,720 Speaker 1: you first have that relationship with God, you have all 88 00:04:37,720 --> 00:04:40,400 Speaker 1: this passion and all this zeal and then that can 89 00:04:40,480 --> 00:04:43,479 Speaker 1: kind of you can become a little bit complacent, just 90 00:04:43,520 --> 00:04:45,719 Speaker 1: like in a marriage, relationship or anything that we're doing. 91 00:04:45,720 --> 00:04:48,000 Speaker 1: When it's new, it's like so exciting, and then you 92 00:04:48,040 --> 00:04:51,560 Speaker 1: can fall into patterns and into routine, And so what 93 00:04:51,600 --> 00:04:54,680 Speaker 1: does it look like to remember our first love and 94 00:04:55,000 --> 00:04:56,920 Speaker 1: not forget why we're doing what we're doing and who 95 00:04:56,960 --> 00:04:57,680 Speaker 1: we're doing it for. 96 00:04:57,800 --> 00:05:00,400 Speaker 2: That's good. It makes me think of what you says 97 00:05:00,400 --> 00:05:04,120 Speaker 2: in Matthew six of seek first the Kingdom, because that 98 00:05:04,640 --> 00:05:07,280 Speaker 2: command is all about where our heart is, where our 99 00:05:07,320 --> 00:05:09,719 Speaker 2: love is, where our allegiance is. And it's like, if 100 00:05:09,760 --> 00:05:12,279 Speaker 2: you're not doing that, then you forsaken your first love. 101 00:05:12,320 --> 00:05:15,920 Speaker 2: So what are we seeking that's not him? What are 102 00:05:15,920 --> 00:05:19,159 Speaker 2: we putting before him in our lives? And the same 103 00:05:19,240 --> 00:05:21,880 Speaker 2: kind of thing I think as believers are answer to 104 00:05:21,880 --> 00:05:24,240 Speaker 2: that question is a really good Sunday School answer to 105 00:05:24,279 --> 00:05:27,560 Speaker 2: that question of Yeah, we're seeking God, we're seeking the Kingdom, 106 00:05:27,600 --> 00:05:32,800 Speaker 2: we're seeking our first love. But how does our life 107 00:05:32,880 --> 00:05:35,799 Speaker 2: actually match that statement? Like when we look at our lives, 108 00:05:35,800 --> 00:05:38,719 Speaker 2: Like when I look at my life, what does how 109 00:05:38,760 --> 00:05:43,200 Speaker 2: I spend my time? What I worry about, what I 110 00:05:43,240 --> 00:05:45,960 Speaker 2: think about, what I spend my money on, how does 111 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:49,440 Speaker 2: that reflect the answer to that question? Because that's a 112 00:05:49,480 --> 00:05:52,320 Speaker 2: more honest answer to that question than my mouth can give. 113 00:05:52,520 --> 00:05:56,120 Speaker 2: Right I want that's in my own heart. I'm asking 114 00:05:56,160 --> 00:05:59,800 Speaker 2: those questions as convicting questions of what am I seeking 115 00:06:00,040 --> 00:06:02,760 Speaker 2: above him in my life? And that reflects how much 116 00:06:02,760 --> 00:06:06,680 Speaker 2: I'm loving him or where I'm lacking in that love, 117 00:06:06,720 --> 00:06:11,240 Speaker 2: and how I'm needing to go back and reconnect and 118 00:06:11,279 --> 00:06:13,640 Speaker 2: to spend that time so that I can remember that 119 00:06:13,760 --> 00:06:16,240 Speaker 2: he is my first love and that he does fill 120 00:06:16,279 --> 00:06:18,120 Speaker 2: me up and I don't have to go to other 121 00:06:18,160 --> 00:06:20,560 Speaker 2: places to get these things because he gives me all 122 00:06:20,960 --> 00:06:24,360 Speaker 2: that I need in him. So why is this so challenging, 123 00:06:24,440 --> 00:06:26,680 Speaker 2: Rachel for us to do? What do you think makes 124 00:06:26,720 --> 00:06:28,080 Speaker 2: it so challenging for us? 125 00:06:28,440 --> 00:06:30,799 Speaker 1: I think there are a lot of reasons it's challenging. 126 00:06:30,920 --> 00:06:35,120 Speaker 1: I think for me, I'll speak to me. I think 127 00:06:35,120 --> 00:06:40,800 Speaker 1: it's exhaustion and distraction and just busyness and even fear. 128 00:06:41,080 --> 00:06:43,360 Speaker 1: I think this life, we've we've got a lot of 129 00:06:45,040 --> 00:06:50,000 Speaker 1: we can get immediate gratification from a lot of things 130 00:06:50,040 --> 00:06:53,240 Speaker 1: that we do, but a lot of these obedience things 131 00:06:53,240 --> 00:06:55,960 Speaker 1: that we're just talking about. Then it's more of a delayed, 132 00:06:57,160 --> 00:07:00,840 Speaker 1: delayed gratification, maybe even into eternity. And so I think 133 00:07:00,880 --> 00:07:03,440 Speaker 1: we just sometimes get lost in what we want to 134 00:07:03,480 --> 00:07:08,200 Speaker 1: do for self or maybe that even people pleasing type activities, 135 00:07:08,640 --> 00:07:11,920 Speaker 1: and we sometimes believe like, oh, may be a little 136 00:07:11,920 --> 00:07:17,120 Speaker 1: bit too much emphasis on God's grace rather than just 137 00:07:17,240 --> 00:07:20,480 Speaker 1: a reverent fear. And so I think it just looks like, Okay, 138 00:07:21,200 --> 00:07:26,120 Speaker 1: how do we make sure that we still surrender to 139 00:07:26,520 --> 00:07:31,400 Speaker 1: God even when it's uncomfortable and just know that He 140 00:07:31,480 --> 00:07:35,120 Speaker 1: does require obedience and that He is a God of justice, 141 00:07:35,480 --> 00:07:38,760 Speaker 1: and so to see himself and ourselves rightly. 142 00:07:39,320 --> 00:07:43,120 Speaker 2: That's good. I think, you know, also knowing that we 143 00:07:43,160 --> 00:07:46,280 Speaker 2: can ask for his help in that, like you've mentioned 144 00:07:46,320 --> 00:07:49,840 Speaker 2: several times, like the Holy Spirit is our helper. We 145 00:07:49,960 --> 00:07:52,320 Speaker 2: cannot obey on our own. That's what the story of 146 00:07:52,320 --> 00:07:54,960 Speaker 2: Scripture teaches us, right like, we couldn't do it on 147 00:07:55,000 --> 00:07:58,600 Speaker 2: our own. So He's set a model for us in Jesus, 148 00:07:58,640 --> 00:08:00,880 Speaker 2: and then he set us a helper in the Spirit 149 00:08:01,320 --> 00:08:06,960 Speaker 2: that can actually overtake us and help us to be 150 00:08:07,080 --> 00:08:09,960 Speaker 2: able to obey God, to be able to show that 151 00:08:10,080 --> 00:08:14,120 Speaker 2: love with our action. And we need help. And so 152 00:08:14,240 --> 00:08:17,360 Speaker 2: I think you know over and over here again on 153 00:08:17,600 --> 00:08:20,200 Speaker 2: the Everyday Prayers podcast, we're going to bring things back 154 00:08:20,200 --> 00:08:23,000 Speaker 2: around to prayer. And so my next question is how 155 00:08:23,040 --> 00:08:28,520 Speaker 2: does prayer influence this loving God? How does prayer help 156 00:08:28,600 --> 00:08:30,559 Speaker 2: us do that? And I think in my own life 157 00:08:30,600 --> 00:08:33,280 Speaker 2: my answer would be, just I ask God for help. 158 00:08:33,800 --> 00:08:37,040 Speaker 2: I pray, ask him for help in obeying him and 159 00:08:37,080 --> 00:08:40,560 Speaker 2: in submitting myself. Help me to submit to you today, Father, 160 00:08:40,679 --> 00:08:42,840 Speaker 2: is a prayer I pray all the time, and I 161 00:08:42,840 --> 00:08:45,600 Speaker 2: haven't really thought about that prayer being related to loving him. 162 00:08:46,200 --> 00:08:48,920 Speaker 2: So in your conversation, that's kind of made me think, oh, 163 00:08:48,960 --> 00:08:51,320 Speaker 2: that is really good to loving him. How do you 164 00:08:51,760 --> 00:08:53,960 Speaker 2: maybe pray in your own life, Rachel, that helps you 165 00:08:54,320 --> 00:08:56,040 Speaker 2: to be able to love God more? 166 00:08:56,600 --> 00:08:59,000 Speaker 1: Yeah, No, I think that's really good. It's like, but 167 00:08:59,080 --> 00:09:02,040 Speaker 1: for me, it's God, help me, help me to keep 168 00:09:02,080 --> 00:09:04,280 Speaker 1: you first, like what we just talked about. Help me 169 00:09:04,320 --> 00:09:06,600 Speaker 1: to surrender to you and your will and your way 170 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:09,520 Speaker 1: and not my own. So it's a laying down of 171 00:09:10,040 --> 00:09:12,439 Speaker 1: what I want to like you talked about, like submitting, 172 00:09:13,000 --> 00:09:15,880 Speaker 1: and then help me to keep my priorities right Father. 173 00:09:16,120 --> 00:09:19,439 Speaker 1: You know, if I'm just wearing myself out and weary 174 00:09:19,520 --> 00:09:25,079 Speaker 1: and exhausted from trying to please people and loving everybody else. 175 00:09:25,200 --> 00:09:28,480 Speaker 1: So well, but then I'm not loving God and I'm 176 00:09:28,520 --> 00:09:31,840 Speaker 1: just doing going through the motions. Then that's not what 177 00:09:31,880 --> 00:09:34,640 Speaker 1: he wants either, And so I think it is Lord, 178 00:09:35,120 --> 00:09:40,040 Speaker 1: search me and know me, know my heart, purify my heart, 179 00:09:40,240 --> 00:09:43,320 Speaker 1: and help me to continue to seek after you. So 180 00:09:43,679 --> 00:09:48,720 Speaker 1: I think it's it's more of maybe a confessional conversation 181 00:09:48,880 --> 00:09:52,280 Speaker 1: with him, and Lord, just help lead and guide me 182 00:09:52,440 --> 00:09:55,200 Speaker 1: every step of the way, and help me to lay 183 00:09:55,240 --> 00:09:58,280 Speaker 1: down my needs and my desires and to want your 184 00:09:58,320 --> 00:09:59,560 Speaker 1: will more than mine. 185 00:10:00,080 --> 00:10:03,200 Speaker 2: Paraphrase that scripture you just reference when I pray it. 186 00:10:03,280 --> 00:10:05,960 Speaker 2: So search me a God and know my heart. See 187 00:10:06,000 --> 00:10:08,160 Speaker 2: if there's any offensive way in me? Is what the 188 00:10:08,480 --> 00:10:12,520 Speaker 2: scripture says about. I always change it to say, see 189 00:10:12,559 --> 00:10:17,199 Speaker 2: all of the offensive pace. I know it's there, right, 190 00:10:17,280 --> 00:10:19,400 Speaker 2: so I don't even have to ask you as it there, like, 191 00:10:19,520 --> 00:10:21,839 Speaker 2: see it all and then lead me in the way 192 00:10:21,880 --> 00:10:25,240 Speaker 2: of that everlasting. It's one of my favorite scriptures to 193 00:10:25,280 --> 00:10:28,720 Speaker 2: pray a lot that you brought that up. So Rachel's 194 00:10:28,720 --> 00:10:31,680 Speaker 2: we kind to close out our conversation. Let's talk just 195 00:10:31,720 --> 00:10:36,160 Speaker 2: a little bit about how do we teach our children 196 00:10:36,760 --> 00:10:39,640 Speaker 2: to love God, we get to model that for them. 197 00:10:39,840 --> 00:10:42,920 Speaker 2: It's like gives me, it intimidates me to even say 198 00:10:42,960 --> 00:10:46,000 Speaker 2: that out loud, like, my little wins are going to 199 00:10:46,160 --> 00:10:49,640 Speaker 2: know how to love God based on how I model 200 00:10:49,720 --> 00:10:51,440 Speaker 2: that for them. So how do we do that? What 201 00:10:51,480 --> 00:10:52,160 Speaker 2: does that look like? 202 00:10:52,760 --> 00:10:56,480 Speaker 1: Well, there's the saying that there's more caught than is taught, 203 00:10:56,640 --> 00:10:58,520 Speaker 1: and so it really goes back to like are we 204 00:10:58,559 --> 00:11:00,560 Speaker 1: walking the walk or are we talking the time? And our 205 00:11:00,640 --> 00:11:04,559 Speaker 1: kids are so smart, they know and they hold us accountable. 206 00:11:04,559 --> 00:11:07,640 Speaker 1: I feel like, but I think that for me, it's 207 00:11:07,720 --> 00:11:10,600 Speaker 1: like they need to see that it's a relationship and 208 00:11:10,600 --> 00:11:14,480 Speaker 1: that it's not just a religion or a routine, and 209 00:11:14,480 --> 00:11:17,079 Speaker 1: then they need to know too. I think back to 210 00:11:17,120 --> 00:11:20,000 Speaker 1: our previous conversation that it's not just about how they 211 00:11:20,040 --> 00:11:22,640 Speaker 1: behave and that they're getting everything right all the time, 212 00:11:22,679 --> 00:11:25,959 Speaker 1: but there is grace that we are extending them that 213 00:11:26,240 --> 00:11:29,880 Speaker 1: grace and that they are beloved regardless of how they behave. 214 00:11:30,040 --> 00:11:32,640 Speaker 1: And so I think that that's something that we can 215 00:11:32,960 --> 00:11:37,600 Speaker 1: model just through praying with them, through reading scripture together, 216 00:11:37,760 --> 00:11:42,400 Speaker 1: through listening to worship music, through the way that they 217 00:11:42,480 --> 00:11:44,880 Speaker 1: see us treat other people, and the way that we 218 00:11:44,960 --> 00:11:47,920 Speaker 1: are being obedient as they see us do uncomfortable things 219 00:11:48,000 --> 00:11:51,520 Speaker 1: and submit and lay down and sacrifice. It may be 220 00:11:51,720 --> 00:11:54,960 Speaker 1: years later before we see that fruit in their own lives, 221 00:11:54,960 --> 00:11:57,720 Speaker 1: but they, I believe our watching and it is shaping 222 00:11:57,760 --> 00:11:59,880 Speaker 1: and molding them and their relationship with the Lord too. 223 00:12:00,080 --> 00:12:04,640 Speaker 2: That's good. That's good. The love that we show them, 224 00:12:04,760 --> 00:12:10,479 Speaker 2: especially in moments where they mess up or art obedient, 225 00:12:10,559 --> 00:12:13,520 Speaker 2: right where we're trying to teach them about obedience. The 226 00:12:13,600 --> 00:12:15,960 Speaker 2: love that we show them in those moments is what's 227 00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:19,160 Speaker 2: going to teach them about God's love. And that's such 228 00:12:19,200 --> 00:12:22,200 Speaker 2: a beautiful gift that we have as parents. But I 229 00:12:22,240 --> 00:12:24,600 Speaker 2: know I missed the boat on that so often because 230 00:12:24,600 --> 00:12:30,080 Speaker 2: I'm frustrated or I'm tired or overreact and just asking 231 00:12:30,120 --> 00:12:32,600 Speaker 2: God to help us in those moments to be able 232 00:12:32,640 --> 00:12:35,880 Speaker 2: to show that love. That's a supernatural love, right, That's 233 00:12:35,920 --> 00:12:38,520 Speaker 2: that supernatural love that we get to model, but we 234 00:12:38,559 --> 00:12:41,280 Speaker 2: need supernatural help to be able to do it. 235 00:12:41,400 --> 00:12:43,080 Speaker 1: So, Rachel say, for our. 236 00:12:42,960 --> 00:12:46,679 Speaker 2: Listeners today to be able to have that that type 237 00:12:46,679 --> 00:12:47,959 Speaker 2: of love, to be able to share. 238 00:12:48,160 --> 00:12:52,760 Speaker 1: Yes, absolutely, Father, we love you, and we thank you 239 00:12:52,800 --> 00:12:55,360 Speaker 1: for the way that you show your love to us, 240 00:12:55,480 --> 00:12:59,559 Speaker 1: regardless of whether we deserve it or regardless of our behavior, Father, 241 00:13:00,280 --> 00:13:03,640 Speaker 1: you forgive us and forget our sins as far as 242 00:13:03,640 --> 00:13:06,600 Speaker 1: the east is from the west. And so we pray 243 00:13:06,679 --> 00:13:11,000 Speaker 1: that we would forgive ourselves for times that we've been 244 00:13:11,040 --> 00:13:14,960 Speaker 1: disobedient to you, and that we would model your Christ's 245 00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:17,800 Speaker 1: likeness to our children and our spouses and all the 246 00:13:17,840 --> 00:13:20,680 Speaker 1: people that are around us. Father, and that we would 247 00:13:20,720 --> 00:13:22,839 Speaker 1: just love you with all of our heart and soul 248 00:13:22,960 --> 00:13:26,240 Speaker 1: and mind and strength, the entirety of who we are. 249 00:13:26,320 --> 00:13:29,160 Speaker 1: And so just search us and know us, creating us 250 00:13:29,160 --> 00:13:33,120 Speaker 1: a clean and pure heart. Father, and help us to 251 00:13:33,120 --> 00:13:36,120 Speaker 1: be obedient to you whatever you're leading us to do today. 252 00:13:36,240 --> 00:13:38,920 Speaker 1: Help us to say yes and submit and surrender to 253 00:13:38,960 --> 00:13:41,160 Speaker 1: your will and your way. In Jesus name, we pray, 254 00:13:41,320 --> 00:13:43,440 Speaker 1: Amen Man, Amen. 255 00:13:43,480 --> 00:13:45,720 Speaker 2: Friends, be sure you grab your copy of Rachel's book, 256 00:13:45,720 --> 00:13:49,200 Speaker 2: every Day Prayers for Love wherever you buy books. It's 257 00:13:49,240 --> 00:13:51,720 Speaker 2: a great devotional to have in your hands during this 258 00:13:52,160 --> 00:13:54,480 Speaker 2: month where we kind of focus on love. Want you 259 00:13:54,559 --> 00:13:57,480 Speaker 2: to get your copy today and maybe share one with 260 00:13:57,520 --> 00:14:00,760 Speaker 2: a friend. We'll see back on the every Day Prayers podcast. 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You can connect deeper through 266 00:14:14,240 --> 00:14:18,120 Speaker 2: a monthly scripture inspired prayer calendar, each day's devotion in 267 00:14:18,160 --> 00:14:22,720 Speaker 2: written form and bonus content only available to our Patreon family. 268 00:14:23,120 --> 00:14:27,680 Speaker 2: Learn more in today's show notes or at Millionprayingmoms dot com. 269 00:14:28,160 --> 00:14:31,840 Speaker 2: Until next time, friends, the Lord bless you and keep you. 270 00:14:32,520 --> 00:14:35,640 Speaker 2: Make his face shine upon you and be gracious to you. 271 00:14:36,240 --> 00:14:38,840 Speaker 2: May the Lord look with favor on you and give 272 00:14:38,880 --> 00:14:39,640 Speaker 2: you peace.