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Speaker 1: Life Audio. Thank you for listening to your daily prayer,

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Speaker 1: where we help you find the words you need to

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Speaker 1: connect with your Father in Heaven. No matter what's happening

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Speaker 1: in your life today, you can trust that God wants

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Speaker 1: to hear from you. Right after this short word from

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Speaker 1: our sponsors, we'll pray through today's prayer for God's will

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Speaker 1: to be done in my life. A Prayer for God's

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Speaker 1: Will to be Done in my Life written by Kenisha

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Speaker 1: Saunders Lyddy read by Leah Gerard. And be not conformed

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Speaker 1: to this world, but be ye tryed by the renewing

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Speaker 1: of your mind, that you may prove what is that

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Speaker 1: good and acceptable and perfect will of God? Romans twelve two.

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Speaker 1: Have you ever wondered what God's will is for your life?

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Speaker 1: We ask questions like what is my purpose? And why

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Speaker 1: am I here? One clear part of God's will is

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Speaker 1: that our lives glorify Him, that we live in a

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Speaker 1: way that brings Him honor. Maybe you already know what

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Speaker 1: God requires of you, or maybe you're still discovering the

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Speaker 1: many things He has planned. Some of those things may

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Speaker 1: feel exciting, others challenging, but in all of it we

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Speaker 1: can confidently say he does all things well? Have you

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Speaker 1: ever prayed for God's will to be done in the

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Speaker 1: middle of a hard diagnosis or after receiving painful news.

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Speaker 1: When Jesus was just hours away from the cross, he

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Speaker 1: took his closest friends with him to pray. The weight

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Speaker 1: of what he was about to face overwhelmed him. He

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Speaker 1: asked God to remove the suffering ahead. Yet even in

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Speaker 1: that moment, he surrendered, saying, not my will, but yours

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Speaker 1: be done. None of us wants to be outside God's

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Speaker 1: will or outside his protection, So why do we sometimes

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Speaker 1: make decisions that place us there? Often our desires don't

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Speaker 1: line up with what God wants for us. My prayer

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Speaker 1: is that we would never choose a path without Jesus

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Speaker 1: at the center. I hope your heart desires the same,

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Speaker 1: to live fully within God's will, to bring him glory,

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Speaker 1: to encourage other believers, and to bear witness to those

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Speaker 1: who don't yet know Christ. Jesus came to die on

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Speaker 1: the cross. If he had not surrendered to God's will,

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Speaker 1: the world would be without hope, lost in sin, and

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Speaker 1: destined for eternity without him. Aren't you thankful that he prayed,

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Speaker 1: not my will, but yours be done. Are you willing

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Speaker 1: to let God's will be carried out in your life

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Speaker 1: even when it's hard. Will you obey his word and

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Speaker 1: respond when he calls, even if you feel unqualified. Will

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Speaker 1: you say yes to the hard paths like singleness, sickness,

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Speaker 1: or sacrifice if they bring him honor and praise. The

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Speaker 1: reason behind God's plan may not be clear, but we

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Speaker 1: can trust that He's in control. Consider the story where

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Speaker 1: Jesus healed the man born blind. When asked why the

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Speaker 1: man was born that way, some assumed it was punishment

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Speaker 1: for sin, but Jesus responded simply, he was born blind

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Speaker 1: so that God could receive glory. If we conform to

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Speaker 1: the thinking of this world, we may miss how God

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Speaker 1: is using our lives to glorify himself. We may grieve

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Speaker 1: over God's decisions, forgetting that our sorrows can become a

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Speaker 1: source of strength for others. My prayer today is that

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Speaker 1: you would desire to be in the center of God's will,

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Speaker 1: that you would daily ask Him to lead your life

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Speaker 1: and use you for his purposes. Let's pray abba Father,

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Speaker 1: thank you for your goodness and mercy toward me. You've

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Speaker 1: been so faithful. I believe that The plans you have

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Speaker 1: for my life are good, even when they differ from

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Speaker 1: what I expected. Help me to count my blessings and

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Speaker 1: be grateful for all you've done. The bad can never

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Speaker 1: outweigh the good, and I praise you for that. Make

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Speaker 1: me more like Christ, so that I would long to

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Speaker 1: remain in your will. I pray that your will be

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Speaker 1: you have me here. Help me to trust you, knowing

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Speaker 1: that you see the beginning and the end. Strengthen my

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Speaker 1: faith even when I don't understand. Remind me daily that

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Speaker 1: my life is meant to glorify you, not to chase

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Speaker 1: my own plans, but to fulfill the purpose the Father

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Speaker 1: has given me. May I seek your will now and forever,

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Speaker 1: trusting that you plan to prosper me and not harm me.

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Speaker 1: To give me hope and a future in Jesus' name. Amen.

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