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Speaker 1: Life Audio. This is Donna Jones and you are listening

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Speaker 1: to That's just what I needed. Hey, friend, If you've

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Speaker 1: ever been in a conversation where you've walked away thinking, Wow,

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Speaker 1: that was just what I needed, you know how life

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Speaker 1: giving that can be. Well, that's what this podcast is

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Speaker 1: all about. We're women who want to know, love, and

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Speaker 1: follow God in our real lives, but sometimes wonder just

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Speaker 1: how to do it. So each week we'll talk about

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Speaker 1: what following God looks like in the midst of daily

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Speaker 1: demands and crazy cultural chaos. Because this isn't just what

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Speaker 1: we need, it's actually exactly what we need. Hey friend,

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Speaker 1: welcome to the podcast. I'm so glad you're here, especially

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Speaker 1: if you're listening at the very end of one year

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Speaker 1: or the beginning of a new year. Happy New Year,

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Speaker 1: my friend. I thought I would do something kind of

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Speaker 1: special for today's episode. I am going to be exploring

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Speaker 1: several prayers in the Bible and praying them over you.

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Speaker 1: So we're going to look at the scriptures. I want

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Speaker 1: to pray these prayers over you, and then I want

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Speaker 1: to explain why I chose these prayers and why these

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Speaker 1: prayers are so important for us as people who follow Christ.

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Speaker 1: So I think it'll be blessed. I think you'll learn

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Speaker 1: a thing or two about the Bible and about scripture

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Speaker 1: and about prayer. And I just realize that as we

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Speaker 1: start anything new, as we are here coming to the

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Speaker 1: very beginning of a new year, that the best things

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Speaker 1: in life are always undergirded by prayer. Whenever I have

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Speaker 1: there's just something about it that I have wisdom about

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Speaker 1: about it, even if it doesn't go exactly like I plan.

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Speaker 1: But when I forge ahead and I don't pray about things,

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Speaker 1: then sometimes things can go south. So not just a

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Speaker 1: way to make things go better, No, prayer is so

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Speaker 1: much more than that. Prayers is talking to God. Prayer

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Speaker 1: is acknowledging that there is a God, that he does

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Speaker 1: he wants to deepen our relationship with him and his

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Speaker 1: that happens is through prayer. And it's also through the Bible.

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Speaker 1: And so that's why I am picking prayers that are

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Speaker 1: already in the Bible, prayers you might not be familiar with,

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Speaker 1: because I'm not going to talk about the Lord's Prayer,

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Speaker 1: which I love that prayer, I pray it every day,

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Speaker 1: but I'm not going to talk about that. I'm going

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Speaker 1: to talk about some prayers you may not be familiar with.

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Speaker 1: And again, what I want to do is read the

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Speaker 1: prayers as a prayer over you. So I want you

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Speaker 1: to accept this really personally from me to you as

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Speaker 1: to me is a prayer found in Ephesians chapter three,

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Speaker 1: starting in verse fourteen, says these words. For this reason,

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Speaker 1: I kneel before the Father, from whom every family in

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Speaker 1: pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may

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Speaker 1: I start with this prayer for you because I think

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Speaker 1: this is foundational, because the Apostle Paul prayed that we

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Speaker 1: And I think it's interesting that the apostle Paul ends

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Speaker 1: God can do miracles, he can do it measurely more.

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Speaker 1: because he can do them measurely more. That's true. By

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Speaker 1: But in this context, Paul has just prayed, I pray

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Speaker 1: for you, okay. Verse number two is found in Second Thessalonians,

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Speaker 1: with this in mind, we constantly pray for you, that

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Speaker 1: that to fruition. So on a very personal basis, when

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Speaker 1: That's a good deed prompted by your faith. May God

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Speaker 1: That's my prayer for you, that God would bring to

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Speaker 1: prompted by faith. Scripture number three is found in Colossians one.

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Speaker 1: Verse nine reads for this reason, since the day we

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Speaker 1: the Father. The next prayer is found in the Old Testament.

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Speaker 1: It's in number six, and it begins with verse twenty four.

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Speaker 1: you peace. Now you might have heard these words in

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Speaker 1: But these go all the way back to the time

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Speaker 1: of Moses and Aaron. And this is a prayer of

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Speaker 1: God's blessing over us. Now, interestingly, this is a prayer

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Speaker 1: the people. So this is God's blessing over us. And

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Speaker 1: he says, may the Lord bless you. That word bless

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Speaker 1: upon you. In the original Hebrew, that word shine is

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Speaker 1: a light or set on fire. One commentator says God's

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Speaker 1: face is the revelation of his personality to people. It

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Speaker 1: radiates as fire does, consuming evil and bestowing light and warmth,

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Speaker 1: and it shines as the sun, promoting life. God's graciousness

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Speaker 1: refers to the manifestation of his favor and grace in

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Speaker 1: the events of life, and finally peace. In the original Hebrew,

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Speaker 1: the word peace is the word shalom, and shalom means

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Speaker 1: more than just peace. It actually means completeness, soundness, contentment, health, prosperity.

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Speaker 1: It means the totality of human flourishing. So the prayer,

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Speaker 1: may the Lord bless you and keep you. The Lord

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Speaker 1: make his face to shine upon you and be gracious

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Speaker 1: to you. May the Lord lived up his countenance to

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Speaker 1: you and give you peace. The Lord is saying, I

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Speaker 1: want to give you the totality of human flourishing, completeness, soundness,

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Speaker 1: all that you need. These are the prayers I want

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Speaker 1: to pray over you, my friend. It's my hope that

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Speaker 1: you will pray them for yourself and for your loved ones.

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Speaker 1: But there's one last prayer I want to end with,

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Speaker 1: and actually it's a prayer that I would love for

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Speaker 1: you to pray for me. It's found in Ephesian six,

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Speaker 1: nineteen twenty. Pray also for me that whenever I speak,

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Speaker 1: words may be given me so that I will fearlessly

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Speaker 1: make known the mystery of the Gospel for which I'm

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Speaker 1: an ambassador in chains. Pray that I may declare it

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Speaker 1: fearlessly as I should. That is my prayer. If you

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Speaker 1: would just pray that for me, that whenever I speak,

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Speaker 1: that the words may be given to me, so that

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Speaker 1: I'll fearlessly make known the mystery of the Gospel, and

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Speaker 1: that I will declare it fearlessly as I should. In fact,

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Speaker 1: as you in this podcast. I would love for you,

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Speaker 1: just before you do the next thing, if you would

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Speaker 1: just pray that for me I would count that as

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Speaker 1: such a blessing. Well, my friend, I hope you enjoyed

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Speaker 1: today's episode. I hope it blessed you. I hope you

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Speaker 1: received these prayers, and I wish you all of God's

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Speaker 1: best blessings in your new year. Happy New Year, and

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Speaker 1: as always, my friend, I can't wait to see you

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Speaker 1: next time, for that's just what I needed.