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Speaker 1: Life audio. You're listening to everyday prayers with million praying

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Speaker 1: moms helping you pray God's word for your family in

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Speaker 1: the areas you need at most. I'm your host, Nicolette Bell. Here,

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Speaker 1: we believe prayer isn't a last resort. It's our first

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Speaker 1: and best response in parenting, and every day we come

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Speaker 1: together to partner with God for the hearts of our children.

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Speaker 1: Today's devotion is written and read by Emily Uranga, author

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Speaker 1: of a brand new book, Commune with Me. Today, Emily

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Speaker 1: shares a prayer for God to reach into our waiting.

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Speaker 1: After a quick word from our sponsors, we'll pray together

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Speaker 1: for our families.

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Speaker 2: A prayer for when you are waiting. Psalm one one,

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Speaker 2: verse one, Oh Lord is not lifted up. My eyes

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Speaker 2: are not raised too high. I do not occupy myself

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Speaker 2: with things too great and too marvelous for me. Isaiah

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Speaker 2: chapter fifty eight, verse eleven. And the Lord will guide

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Speaker 2: you continually and satisfy your desire in scorched places, and

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Speaker 2: make your bones strong. And you shall be like a

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Speaker 2: watered garden, like a spring of water whose waters do

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Speaker 2: not fail. Matthew chapter twenty six, verse thirty eight. Then

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Speaker 2: He said to them, my soul is very sorrowful even

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Speaker 2: to death. Remain here and watch with me. John Chapter twelve,

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Speaker 2: verses twenty three to twenty four. And Jesus answered them,

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Speaker 2: the hour has come for the son of Man to

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Speaker 2: be glorified. Truly, truly, I say to you, Unless a

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Speaker 2: grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it

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Speaker 2: remains alone. But if it dies, it bears much fruit.

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Speaker 2: He's a silhouette in the doorway, this boy with size

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Speaker 2: eleven feet and no shoes to fill. It's Christmas with

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Speaker 2: all its lights and garland, and we're making room for

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Speaker 2: a miracle, Like Joseph in the stable. I didn't know

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Speaker 2: i'd have another child, my friend's son running from monsters,

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Speaker 2: as if King Herod is trying to end him before

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Speaker 2: he begins. He stays with us, makes a home with

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Speaker 2: us for a time. We give him a place at

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Speaker 2: the table. He eats with us, takes huge mouthfuls, but

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Speaker 2: his eyes still wander, and we wonder, like the disciples,

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Speaker 2: is this who we've been waiting for. We knew someone

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Speaker 2: was coming. God had been cleaning out all the things

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Speaker 2: in us not fit for a king. There's a manger

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Speaker 2: in our hearts, but we use it to store junk,

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Speaker 2: like we did the room we carved out for my

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Speaker 2: friend's son, the junk piled high on the ping pong table,

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Speaker 2: and me there with a dust pan and mop. We'd

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Speaker 2: been waiting, leaning like a creaky door on the hinges

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Speaker 2: of time. There'd been fights and forgiveness, in arms around

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Speaker 2: each other before he came. We were the seed that

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Speaker 2: fell together dying. Waiting does not diminish us any more

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Speaker 2: than waiting diminishes a pregnant mother. We are enlarged in

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Speaker 2: the waiting. We of course don't see what is enlarging us.

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Speaker 2: But the longer we wait, the larger we become, and

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Speaker 2: the more joyful our expectancy. Romans, chapter eight, verses twenty

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Speaker 2: four to twenty five, the message. There's a cost to

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Speaker 2: this forever living. It's called dying. It's a price tag

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Speaker 2: with a cross on it, and Jesus paid it. But

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Speaker 2: we go to the ground with him, rise up with him,

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Speaker 2: little roots clinging to our skin. Waiting is not the

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Speaker 2: pausing of life, it's the living of it, thinking deep

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Speaker 2: into the secret hollow with God. One of my friends

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Speaker 2: waits for a diagnosis. Even as we waited for the

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Speaker 2: one God told us about, even as we wait to

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Speaker 2: see if he stays, even as I wait on a

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Speaker 2: visa from my ministry trip to Africa, For we are

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Speaker 2: always waiting. Andrew Murray wrote, humility is perfect quietness of heart.

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Speaker 2: It is to expect nothing, to wonder at nothing that

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Speaker 2: is done to me, to feel nothing done against me.

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Speaker 2: It is to be at rest when nobody praises me,

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Speaker 2: and when I am blamed or despised. It is to

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Speaker 2: have a blessed home in the Lord, where I can

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Speaker 2: go in and shut the door and kneel to my

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Speaker 2: Father in secret, and I am at peace, as in

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Speaker 2: a deep sea of calmness, when all around and above

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Speaker 2: is trouble. She sends me a painting of wheat. This friend,

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Speaker 2: the seeds falling are shaped like tears, remain here. Watch

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Speaker 2: with me, Jesus cried at gussemine. Soon afterward it was finished,

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Speaker 2: his form out stretched nailed to the doorway of hell,

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Speaker 2: a silhouette framed against eternity. As we watch with him,

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Speaker 2: we witness his love, and we trust. As we wait

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Speaker 2: with him, we become adorned with the hidden person of

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Speaker 2: the heart. Verse Peter, Chapter three, Verse four, New King

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Speaker 2: James Virgin. Then we walk in faith making room for

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Speaker 2: a miracle. Abba, I am waiting and I'm watching. Please

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Speaker 2: reach into my waiting and give me peace. Make room

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Speaker 2: in me for a miracle. Clean out all the ugly,

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Speaker 2: all the hurt, all the fear, and all that is

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Speaker 2: non gospel. I am ready use me.

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