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Speaker 1: Life Audio.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for listening to your Nightly Scripture, a calming,

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Speaker 2: scripture centered devotional podcast designed to help you end each

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Speaker 2: day with God's word in your mind and on your heart.

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Speaker 2: Right after this short word from our sponsors, we'll reflect

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Speaker 2: on tonight's scripture Luke, chapter eleven. Tonight's Scripture reflection is

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Speaker 2: written by Amberginter and read by Leah Gerard Luke chapter eleven.

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Speaker 2: One day, Jesus was praying in a certain place. When

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Speaker 2: he finished, one of his disciples said to him, Lord,

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Speaker 2: teach us to pray, just as John taught his disciples.

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Speaker 2: He said to them, when you pray, say Father, halloaed

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Speaker 2: be your name, your Kingdom. Come give us each day

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Speaker 2: our daily bread. Forgive us our sins, for we also

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Speaker 2: forgive everyone who sins against us, and lead us not

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Speaker 2: into temptation. Then Jesus said to them, suppose you have

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Speaker 2: a friend, and you go to him at midnight and say, friend,

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Speaker 2: lend me three loaves of bread. A friend of mine

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Speaker 2: on a journey has come to me, and I have

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Speaker 2: no food to offer him. Then suppose the one inside answers,

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Speaker 2: don't bother me. The door is already locked, and my

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Speaker 2: children and I are in bed. I can't get up

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Speaker 2: and give you anything I tell you. Even though he

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Speaker 2: will not get up and get your bread because of friendship,

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Speaker 2: yet because of your shameless audacity, he will surely get

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Speaker 2: up and give you as much as you need. So

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Speaker 2: I say to you, ask and it will be given

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Speaker 2: to you. Seek and you will find. Knock and the

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Speaker 2: door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives.

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Speaker 2: The one who seeks finds. Then to the one who knocks,

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Speaker 2: the door will be opened. Which of you, fathers, if

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Speaker 2: your son asks for a fish, will give him a

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Speaker 2: snake instead, Or if he asks for an egg, will

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Speaker 2: give him a scorpion. If you, then, though you are evil,

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Speaker 2: will know how to give good gifts to your children.

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Speaker 2: How much more will your father in heaven give the

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Speaker 2: Holy Spirit to those who ask him. Jesus was driving

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Speaker 2: out a demon that was mute. When the demon left,

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Speaker 2: the man who had been mute spoke, and the crowd

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Speaker 2: was amazed.

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Speaker 1: But some of them said.

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Speaker 2: By Belsible, the prince of demons, he is driving out demons.

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Speaker 2: Others tested him by asking for a sign from heaven.

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Speaker 2: Jesus knew their thoughts and said to them, any kingdom

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Speaker 2: divided against itself will be ruined, and a house divided

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Speaker 2: against itself will fall. If Satan is divided against himself,

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Speaker 2: how can his kingdom stand. I say this because you

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Speaker 2: claim that I drive out demons by belsible. Now if

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Speaker 2: I drive out demons by belsible, by whom do your

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Speaker 2: followers drive them out? So?

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Speaker 1: Then they will be your judges.

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Speaker 2: But if I drive out demons by the finger of God,

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Speaker 2: then the kingdom of God has come upon you. When

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Speaker 2: a strong man, fully armed, guards his own house, his

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Speaker 2: possessions are safe. But when someone stronger attacks and overpowers him,

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Speaker 2: he takes away the armor in which the man trusted

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Speaker 2: and divides up his plunder. Whoever is not with me

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Speaker 2: is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters.

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Speaker 2: When an impure spirit comes out of a person, it

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Speaker 2: goes through arid places seeking rest and does not find it.

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Speaker 2: Then it says, I will return to the house I left.

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Speaker 2: When it arrives, it finds the house swept clean and

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Speaker 2: put in order. Then it goes and takes seven other

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Speaker 2: spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in and

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Speaker 2: worse than the first. As Jesus was saying these things,

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Speaker 2: a woman in the crowd called out, blessed is the

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Speaker 2: mother who gave you birth and nursed you. He replied, blessed,

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Speaker 2: rather are those who hear the word of God and

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Speaker 2: obey it. As the crowds increased, Jesus said, this is

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Speaker 2: a wicked generation. It asks for a sign, but none

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Speaker 2: will be given it except the sign of Jonah. For

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Speaker 2: as Jonah was a signed to the Ninevites, so also

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Speaker 2: will the Son of Man be to this generation. The

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Speaker 2: Queen of the South will rise at the judgment with

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Speaker 2: the people of this generation and condemn them, for she

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Speaker 2: came from the ends of the earth to listen to

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Speaker 2: Solomon's wisdom, and now something greater than Solomon is here.

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Speaker 2: The men of Nineveh will stand up at the judgment

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Speaker 2: with this generation and condemn it, for they repented at

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Speaker 2: the preaching of Jonah, and now something greater than Jonah

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Speaker 2: is here. No one lights a lamp and puts it

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Speaker 2: in a place where it will be hidden or under

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Speaker 2: that those who come in may see the light. Your

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Speaker 2: eye is the lamp of your body. When your eyes

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Speaker 2: are healthy, your your whole body is also full of light.

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Speaker 2: But when they are unhealthy, your body also is full

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Speaker 2: of darkness. See to it, then, that the light within

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Speaker 2: you is not darkness. Therefore, if your whole body is

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Speaker 2: full of light and no part of it dark, it

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Speaker 2: will be just as full of light as when a

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Speaker 2: lamp shines.

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Speaker 1: Its light on you.

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Speaker 2: When Jesus had finished speaking, a pharisee invited him to

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Speaker 2: eat with him. So he went in and reclined at

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Speaker 2: the table. But the pharisee was surprised when he noticed

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Speaker 2: that Jesus did not first wash before the meal. Then

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Speaker 2: the Lord said to him, Now, then, you pharisees, clean

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Speaker 2: the outside of the cup and dish, but inside you

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Speaker 2: are full of greed and wickedness. You foolish people. Did

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Speaker 2: not the one who made the outside make the inside also.

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Speaker 2: But now, as for what is inside, you be generous

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Speaker 2: to the poor, and everything will be clean for you.

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Speaker 2: Woe to you, pharisees, because you give God a tenth

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Speaker 2: of your mint rue and all other kinds of garden nerves,

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Speaker 2: but you neglect justice and the love of God. You

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Speaker 2: should have practiced the latter without leaving the former undone.

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Speaker 2: Woe to you, Pharisees, because you love the most important

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Speaker 2: seats in the synagogues and a respectful greeting in the marketplace.

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Speaker 2: Woe to you because you are like unmarked graves which

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Speaker 2: people walk over without knowing it. One of the experts

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Speaker 2: in the law answered him, Teacher, when you say these things,

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Speaker 2: you insult us. Also, Jesus replied, and you experts in

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Speaker 2: the law, woe to you because you load people down

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Speaker 2: with burdens they can hardly carry, and you, yourselves will

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Speaker 2: not lift one finger to help them. Woe to you

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Speaker 2: because you build tombs for the prophets, and it was

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Speaker 2: your ancestors who killed them. So you testify that you

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Speaker 2: approve of what your ancestors did. They killed the prophets,

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Speaker 2: and you build their tombs. Because of this, God and

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Speaker 2: his wisdom said, I will send them prophets and apostles,

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Speaker 2: some of whom they will kill, and others they will persecute. Therefore,

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Speaker 2: this generation will be held responsible for the blood of

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Speaker 2: all the prophets that has been shed since the beginning

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Speaker 2: of the world, from the blood of Abel to the

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Speaker 2: blood of Zechariah, who was killed between the altar and

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Speaker 2: the sanctuary. Yes, I tell you this generation will be

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Speaker 2: held responsible for it all. Woe to you, experts in

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Speaker 2: the law, because you have taken away the key to knowledge.

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Speaker 2: You yourselves have not entered, and you have hindered those

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Speaker 2: who were entering. When Jesus went outside, the Pharisees and

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Speaker 2: the teachers of the law began to oppose him fiercely

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Speaker 2: and to besiege him with questions.

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Speaker 1: Waiting to catch him in something.

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Speaker 2: He might say, have you ever prayed for something only

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Speaker 2: to be surprised when it happened? Or maybe you've prayed

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Speaker 2: for something but didn't really believe it could be true.

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Speaker 2: Maybe it was praying to get an A on a

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Speaker 2: test you didn't study for long enough. Or maybe it

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Speaker 2: was for something you prayed for for so long that

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Speaker 2: you gave up believing things could ever look any different.

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Speaker 2: I know I did. We don't mean to, but over time,

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Speaker 2: pain and life experiences can taint our view of healing.

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Speaker 2: They can also taint our view of what it means

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Speaker 2: to pray and trust the Lord. For nearly a decade,

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Speaker 2: I suffered from excruciating periods. When doctors told me I

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Speaker 2: was normal, I shook my head in disbelief. I felt

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Speaker 2: like the woman in the Bible who bled for twelve

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Speaker 2: years and spent all she had just to end up

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Speaker 2: worse than before. But then, after two surgeries, my pain

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Speaker 2: I'd prayed not to be in pain for so long

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Speaker 2: that pain itself became my home. I'll let me be clear.

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Speaker 2: I still have pain, and chronic pain. Endometriosis just one

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Speaker 2: of the many conditions I possess is no joke. But

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Speaker 2: the pain has gotten better, and that is what I think.

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Speaker 2: This passage in Luke eleven one through thirteen reminds us

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Speaker 2: of not to give up on hope through prayer.

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Speaker 1: In Luke eleven we.

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Speaker 2: See Jesus teaching his disciples how to pray. This is

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Speaker 2: less about the exact words and more about the condition

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Speaker 2: of our hearts. It's about asking God to provide for

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Speaker 2: earth daily needs notice it doesn't say weekly, and learning

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Speaker 2: to trust him continually. We must continue seeking and knocking

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Speaker 2: the healing, The answer to prayer and the solution we've

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Speaker 2: been asking for are ours for the taking, but we

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Speaker 2: must continue.

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Speaker 1: To trust today.

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Speaker 2: I wonder how many of us trust in this way?

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Speaker 2: Do we keep asking, seeking, knocking, and finding or have

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Speaker 2: we given up? Do we pray for our daily bread

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Speaker 2: or try to cram Jesus in when we have time

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Speaker 2: and think five minutes will be enough to feed us

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Speaker 2: for an entire week. As you prepare for rest, ask

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Speaker 2: yourself these questions honestly. Then share your findings with the Lord. Remember,

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Speaker 2: you and I I can learn to pray with trust,

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Speaker 2: but we also need.

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Speaker 1: To believe when we do.

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Speaker 2: Dear Jesus, learning to pray with trust as a daily practice,

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Speaker 2: help me to do this well and to grow in

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Speaker 2: my relationship with you as I do when I struggle,

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Speaker 2: I redirect my gaze to you. I love, praise, and

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Speaker 2: thank you Lord.

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Speaker 1: Amen.

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