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Speaker 2: Welcome back, friend. You are listening to the Teach Us

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Speaker 2: to Pray podcast, where we teach believers practical, in real

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Speaker 2: life tips on how to grow your faith and relationship

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Speaker 2: with God through the power of prayer. I'm Christina Patterson,

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Speaker 2: host of the Teach Us to Pray podcast and founder

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Speaker 2: of Beloved Women, where I encourage, equip and empower women

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Speaker 2: in the love of Jesus Christ and the truth of

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Speaker 2: God's Word. This is the last episode in our three

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Speaker 2: part series where we are talking about the three ways

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Speaker 2: God answers prayers. We've talked about how God will answer

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Speaker 2: sometimes with the note and how to trust his heart

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Speaker 2: and his will even in those hard seasons. We've talked

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Speaker 2: about how God will sometimes answer with a yes, and

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Speaker 2: how to graciously receive those answers prayers, but make sure

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Speaker 2: that they don't become idols, and that we always remember

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Speaker 2: that it's God that we should keep our eye on

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Speaker 2: the one who blesses us, not the blessings themselves, but Today,

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Speaker 2: we're going to talk about the third and final way

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Speaker 2: that God answers our prayers, and that is with the maybe,

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Speaker 2: what do we do when God is simply telling us

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Speaker 2: to wait now? Often God will do this because there's

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Speaker 2: something in your waiting season that he wants to teach you. Unfortunately,

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Speaker 2: sometimes when we are in a waiting season, we feel

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Speaker 2: like we're in this holding pattern right where we're just

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Speaker 2: circling the same situation over and over again, waiting for

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Speaker 2: God to change something in our lives, waiting for him

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Speaker 2: to answer our prayers, and we feel like we can't move.

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Speaker 2: We feel like there's nothing we can do until we

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Speaker 2: get an answer to the prayer. And God is not

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Speaker 2: saying that. God's not saying hold your breath now. Sometimes,

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Speaker 2: if you've been waiting on something for a long time

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Speaker 2: and then you finally get it, you'll let out this

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Speaker 2: big sigh of relief, and that usually means that you've

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Speaker 2: been holding your breath until you get what you were

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Speaker 2: waiting for.

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Speaker 1: Now.

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Speaker 2: That's not sustainable in the long run. God's not calling

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Speaker 2: us to hold our breath and put our lives on hold.

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Speaker 2: He still wants us to breathe in faith and breathe

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Speaker 2: out fear and continue to live. Because what He wants

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Speaker 2: us to do in our waiting or maybe seasons is

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Speaker 2: to continue to grow here. He wants us to lean

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Speaker 2: on him and trust him even in this season. Now,

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Speaker 2: this is hard because when we don't know how a

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Speaker 2: situation is going to turn out, it tests our faith.

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Speaker 2: You know. We'd like to know what's gonna next week

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Speaker 2: and what's going to happen next year. We have our

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Speaker 2: five year plan, we have our planners, we have all

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Speaker 2: of our schedules. But sometimes God wants us to be flexible.

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Speaker 2: He wants us to surrender to his will at any

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Speaker 2: moment so that we can be led by the Holy

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Speaker 2: Spirit and not our to do list and not our

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Speaker 2: five year plan, And so sometimes he'll put us in

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Speaker 2: these waiting seasons. We're the only thing we really have

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Speaker 2: to do is trust him. Now. We can work on

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Speaker 2: our skills, we can move on with our lives, and

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Speaker 2: we should, but ultimately we can grow here if we

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Speaker 2: don't allow this waiting season to cause us to give

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Speaker 2: up on our faith. Ultimately, we have to understand that

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Speaker 2: God's timing is perfect and that if he has us waiting,

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Speaker 2: he has a good reason for it. Did you know

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Speaker 2: that different animals have different gestation periods. The gestation period

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Speaker 2: is the time it takes for a baby to develop

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Speaker 2: in its mother before its birthed, and so that time

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Speaker 2: period is different for different animals. For a human, it's

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Speaker 2: about two hundred and sixty six days, about nine months.

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Speaker 2: For a horse it's a little bit longer. It's about

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Speaker 2: three hundred and thirty days to three hundred and forty

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Speaker 2: two days. For a kangaroo it's less time, it's forty

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Speaker 2: two days. So depending on the type of baby that's

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Speaker 2: being developed determines how long that development period is. And

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Speaker 2: so many of us are in waiting seasons because God's

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Speaker 2: trying to grow something in us. He's trying to develop

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Speaker 2: us and mature us in this waiting season, and for

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Speaker 2: some people it's going to take longer than other. So

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Speaker 2: we can't be tempted to look to our left and

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Speaker 2: look to our right, because what God has for someone else,

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Speaker 2: he might be developing something else in them than what

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Speaker 2: he's developing in us. We have to stay focused on

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Speaker 2: our race, in our lane that God has us in

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Speaker 2: and trust him because if our developmental period is cut

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Speaker 2: off too short, we might get what we want, but

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Speaker 2: we won't be prepared for it. We won't be able

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Speaker 2: to sustain it, it won't be healthy in our waiting seasons.

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Speaker 2: It's important for us to respond to God with trust,

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Speaker 2: to understand that his timing is perfect, that His ways

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Speaker 2: are higher, and we should be encouraged not to give up.

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Speaker 2: If you're in a waiting season, I want to leave

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Speaker 2: you with Galatians six' nine that, says and let us

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Speaker 2: not grow weary of doing, good for in due season

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Speaker 2: we will. Reap if we do not give. Up you

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Speaker 2: will be tempted to quit, hoping to give up on,

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Speaker 2: faith to think That god forgot you in a waiting.

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Speaker 2: Season BUT i Love galatians six' nine and the reminder

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Speaker 2: and hope that it provides for us that in due

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Speaker 2: season we. Will, reap now we don't know what that

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Speaker 2: harvest is going to, look like but we do know

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Speaker 2: that we won't receive it if we. Give up and

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Speaker 2: the only prerequisite for us to receive that harvest is

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Speaker 2: to just, keep going just, keep trusting just keep, having

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Speaker 2: faith because waiting is not a Punishment. From god it's

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Speaker 2: actually a blessing to Give you his best at the,

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Speaker 2: RIGHT time i want to, encourage you Regardless if god

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Speaker 2: answers with, a yes, a no OR maybe i want

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Speaker 2: to encourage You with ephesians three twenty, that says now

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Speaker 2: to him who is able to do immeasurably more than

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Speaker 2: all we ask, or imagine according to his power that

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Speaker 2: is at work. Within us regardless Of how god answers,

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Speaker 2: our prayers it's his power that will manifest in our

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Speaker 2: lives to do, his will and as our, heavenly father

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Speaker 2: his will and his heart for us is, always good

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Speaker 2: and we can always. Trust that it's important for us

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Speaker 2: to remember that it's not about, the answer it's About.

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Speaker 2: Our god this is why In The, Lord's prayer, jesus

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Speaker 2: Says Your, Kingdom come your will be done on earth

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Speaker 2: as it is. In heaven this Is how jesus teaches us. To,

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Speaker 2: pray yes we ask for what, we want but then

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Speaker 2: we pray that our hearts and our minds will be

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Speaker 2: in Alignment with god's will and with, his heart because

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Speaker 2: his heart and his will are, for us for our

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Speaker 2: good and. His glory it is my hope that today's

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Speaker 2: episode has provided you with insight and helpful tips on

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Speaker 2: how you. Can pray we have so much more to

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Speaker 2: talk about when it comes, to PRAYER so i hope

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Speaker 2: that if you were encouraged by, today's episode you will

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