1 00:00:02,720 --> 00:00:15,440 Speaker 1: Life Audio. Thank you for listening to your Daily Prayer, 2 00:00:15,880 --> 00:00:18,520 Speaker 1: a podcast dedicated to helping you find the words you 3 00:00:18,640 --> 00:00:21,840 Speaker 1: need to connect with your Father in heaven. No matter 4 00:00:21,880 --> 00:00:24,239 Speaker 1: what is going on in your life today, you can 5 00:00:24,320 --> 00:00:27,520 Speaker 1: trust that God wants to hear from you. Right after 6 00:00:27,560 --> 00:00:29,920 Speaker 1: the short word from our sponsor, you will pray through 7 00:00:29,920 --> 00:00:33,320 Speaker 1: today's prayer when you don't know what to do together. 8 00:00:50,840 --> 00:00:53,920 Speaker 1: A prayer when you don't know what to do? Written 9 00:00:53,960 --> 00:01:00,760 Speaker 1: by Kelly Bellari, read by Carrie Eifer, Do Everything in Love, 10 00:01:01,440 --> 00:01:08,559 Speaker 1: Verse Corinthians sixteen, Verse fourteen. Paralyzed in action, but still 11 00:01:08,600 --> 00:01:11,600 Speaker 1: able to launch a prayer. I paced the hallways in 12 00:01:11,640 --> 00:01:15,560 Speaker 1: the morning, sought God in my quiet time, and asked 13 00:01:15,600 --> 00:01:19,200 Speaker 1: for direction. In the night, I uttered the prayer. What 14 00:01:19,240 --> 00:01:21,679 Speaker 1: do you want me to do? God? Do you want 15 00:01:21,680 --> 00:01:23,800 Speaker 1: me to do this? Or do you want me to 16 00:01:23,800 --> 00:01:28,399 Speaker 1: do that? Silence again, Father, I don't know what to do. 17 00:01:29,440 --> 00:01:36,040 Speaker 1: Nothing later help Father, no answer. What do we do 18 00:01:36,160 --> 00:01:38,920 Speaker 1: when we want to do His will but we still 19 00:01:39,000 --> 00:01:44,800 Speaker 1: don't know entirely what it is? It's aggravating, isn't it infuriating? 20 00:01:44,840 --> 00:01:48,960 Speaker 1: At times? I admit sometimes I want so much to 21 00:01:49,080 --> 00:01:53,200 Speaker 1: know that I don't know how to go I get 22 00:01:53,240 --> 00:01:56,080 Speaker 1: all bald up in stressed trying to make the right choice. 23 00:01:56,600 --> 00:01:59,520 Speaker 1: I want to pick perfectly sure, I don't want to 24 00:01:59,560 --> 00:02:03,480 Speaker 1: strive yet I want a meaningful life. And maybe there's 25 00:02:03,560 --> 00:02:06,400 Speaker 1: too much of a me focus at all, this too 26 00:02:06,440 --> 00:02:10,480 Speaker 1: much emphasis on my own decision making timeline, And perhaps 27 00:02:10,880 --> 00:02:14,200 Speaker 1: this is why God isn't answering. Do you feel the 28 00:02:14,240 --> 00:02:17,280 Speaker 1: pressure of making a decision like I do? Do you 29 00:02:17,360 --> 00:02:21,359 Speaker 1: place hard, time oriented demands on the process of knowing? 30 00:02:22,480 --> 00:02:25,240 Speaker 1: Last night I lay in bed and the thought hit me, 31 00:02:26,040 --> 00:02:29,240 Speaker 1: what if God cares more about how my heart is 32 00:02:29,280 --> 00:02:33,400 Speaker 1: postured than what I do for him? That was a thought. 33 00:02:34,080 --> 00:02:38,280 Speaker 1: Love is paramount, after all, love never fails. Scripture says, 34 00:02:39,240 --> 00:02:42,760 Speaker 1: what if the answer to what to do, how to move, 35 00:02:43,360 --> 00:02:46,600 Speaker 1: and what it looks like to proceed is actually love? 36 00:02:47,440 --> 00:02:52,280 Speaker 1: Love him, love them, love the weight, love his word, 37 00:02:52,919 --> 00:02:57,120 Speaker 1: love myself. As I discern God's leading, Rather than hating 38 00:02:57,160 --> 00:03:00,359 Speaker 1: the weight, I can choose patience in the process us 39 00:03:00,840 --> 00:03:06,040 Speaker 1: and loving kindness towards myself as I proceed on God's timeline. 40 00:03:06,240 --> 00:03:10,760 Speaker 1: Instead of distress, I delight myself in the Lord. Won't 41 00:03:10,760 --> 00:03:14,240 Speaker 1: he work out the gap? Won't he provide the answer? 42 00:03:14,960 --> 00:03:19,320 Speaker 1: Won't he come through. I trust God when I wait well. 43 00:03:20,440 --> 00:03:24,480 Speaker 1: Waiting well looks like avoiding distress and enduring in love. 44 00:03:25,240 --> 00:03:29,680 Speaker 1: Bruce Corinthia in sixteen fourteen says do everything in love. 45 00:03:30,600 --> 00:03:33,799 Speaker 1: When decisions have to be made, we can ask ourselves 46 00:03:34,360 --> 00:03:37,680 Speaker 1: will this produce more love in my life toward God, 47 00:03:38,120 --> 00:03:42,880 Speaker 1: myself and others? Or will it reduce love? Here we 48 00:03:42,920 --> 00:03:50,760 Speaker 1: can do all things, including making decisions and love. Let's pray, Father, 49 00:03:50,840 --> 00:03:54,200 Speaker 1: I need help with the direction I should take. I 50 00:03:54,240 --> 00:03:56,680 Speaker 1: don't know what to do, but I know I want 51 00:03:56,720 --> 00:03:59,240 Speaker 1: to do it with you. I know I want to 52 00:03:59,320 --> 00:04:02,840 Speaker 1: go your way. Will you lead me? 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