Today, I wanna
pray for understanding.
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Proverbs 3:5-6 says,
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"Trust in the Lord
with all your heart
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and lean not on
your own understanding,
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in all your ways, submit to Him,
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and He shall make
your path straight."
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This scripture
reminds me to trust in God
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through the good
and the bad times.
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Consider Abraham,
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he wasn't leaning on
his own understanding
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when he went to
the land of Moriah
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to offer his son,
Isaac, as a burnt offering,
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as much of, as much
as Abraham loved his son,
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he was obedient
and faithful to God.
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So just like Abraham,
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I may not completely understand
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why God may ask me
to do certain things,
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but I pray for
spiritual guidance,
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so that I will serve
Him with all of my heart.
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Trials dark on every hand
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And we cannot understand
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All the ways of
God would lead us
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To that blessed Promised Land
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But He guides us with His eye
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And we'll follow till we die
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For we'll understand it better
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By and by
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By and by, when
the morning comes
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When the saints of
God are gathered home
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We will tell the
story how we've overcome
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For we'll understand it better
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By and by
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Dear Heavenly Father,
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thank You for
creating us in Your image.
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I pray You will give us
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a discerning and
understanding heart.
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Guide us according to
Your will and not our own.
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During this time of uncertainty,
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help us to be
more understanding,
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compassionate, kind and
patient with one another.
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And when we don't understand
the challenges of life,
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let us remember Proverbs 3:5-6,
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"Trust in the Lord
with all your heart,
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lean not on your
own understanding,
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in all your
ways acknowledge Him,
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and He shall direct your path."
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In Jesus' name I pray.
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Amen.
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Our loving Heavenly Father,
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we come before You, Lord,
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to ask for understanding.
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Lord, we ask of You to help us
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to be slow to
speak and swift to hear.
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Give us clearness of thought
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and to daily spend time with You
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that we may be
more understanding
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and compassionate.
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Help us, Lord, to
realize our need of You,
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that we may become all
that You want us to be.
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We ask in Jesus' name.
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Amen.
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Father in heaven, I
come before You forward
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on behalf of
myself and others, Lord,
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who seek better
understanding not only, Father,
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of Your Word and what it says,
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but also of each other.
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Because, Father, sometimes,
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you know, we struggle
with difficult passages
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and the devil would like us
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to not be able to
understand Your Word.
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But I pray, Father,
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that You'll send the
spirit of truth to us,
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so that we may be
able to understand
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Your Word
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and get what
you're trying to tell us.
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But, Father, I also
pray that You will send
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that same spirit
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to help us learn
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how to understand
our brothers and sisters.
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Because sometimes, Father,
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we think we know everything,
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we think we understand,
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and we just
talk past each other.
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So, Father, I pray
for Your help in this
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because it is
difficult for all of us.
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So please, Lord,
give us love for the folks
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that we're talking to
and love for Your Word
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and help us to
understand in Jesus' name.
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Amen.
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Temptations, hidden snares
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They often take us unaware
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And our hearts are made to bleed
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For a thoughtless word or deed
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And we wonder why the test
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When we try to do our best
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But we'll understand it better
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By and by
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By and by, when
the morning comes
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When the saints of
God are gathered home
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We will tell the
story how we've overcome
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For we'll understand it better
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By and by
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Lord, I pray for understanding
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that I shall keep
Your law with all my heart.
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Amen.
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Dear Heavenly
Father, thank You, Lord.
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Thank You for Your love.
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Thank You for Your forgiveness.
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Thank You for Your protection.
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Lord, we come today before You
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asking You for understanding.
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Asking You to help
us to understand, Lord,
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why so much
suffering, why so much sorrow.
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We ask you, Lord,
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to be with
those around the world
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that are suffering illness.
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Those who have lost someone.
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Help them and
help us to understand
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that these happen
because there is an enemy
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that is looking to
destroy your creation.
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But if we trust in You,
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we will be
enjoying eternal life.
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And that we'll enjoy
Your eternal company.
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Lord, help us to
understand all this
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and to help us, Lord,
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to live our
lives trusting in You.
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We ask you these in Jesus' name.
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Amen.
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Heavenly Father, we
thank You for Your love
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and Your grace in our lives.
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We thank You, Father,
that Your ways are not our ways
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and Your thoughts
are not our thoughts.
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Lord, we just give You
all that's going on right now
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in the world.
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All that we
have no control over.
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And ask, Father,
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that You would just give
us peace and understanding
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that You are in
control of it all.
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And that, Lord,
you are still God,
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no matter what the
enemy throws at us.
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We love You and
praise You in Jesus' name.
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Amen.
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Proverbs 4:7 says,
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"The beginning
of wisdom is this.
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Get wisdom though
it cost all you have,
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get understanding.
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Father, we call out to You
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asking that You
would give us wisdom.
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We ask for Your understanding.
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Psalm 32:8 says,
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"I will instruct
you and teach you
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in the way you should go.
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I will counsel you
with my loving eye on you."
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Lord, I thank
you for this promise
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that we can call out to You
and we can receive instruction,
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direction and understanding.
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Lord, You don't want us to
wander around lost, unsure.
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So thank You for the promise
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of direction and insight.
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Proverbs 21:2,
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"A person may think
their own ways are right,
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but the Lord weighs the heart."
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God, even my own
heart will fail me
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and do things that
I didn't see coming
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and have to deal
sometimes with the result
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of a reaction that I made.
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And I think later,
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why in the world did I
do something like that?
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I don't understand
why I would do that.
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Father, thank You
for Your forgiveness.
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Thank You for Your love for us.
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You give us another opportunity
to do better next time
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to respond and react
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to one another
with understanding.
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Ecclesiastes 11:5 says
that we may not always...
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We may not ever understand.
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It says, "As you do not
know the path of the wind
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or how the body is
formed in a mother's womb.
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So you cannot
understand the work of God,
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the maker of all things."
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So, Lord, I pray
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that You would
give us the wisdom
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to even accept
that there are things
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we may never understand.
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Lord, we understand
that we're not in charge.
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We do understand that.
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So help us just to simply trust
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that You have all
things under control
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that You are in charge.
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And we thank You
for being in charge.
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Lord, we have so many viewers
that are praying and asking
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for prayer for
protection and safety.
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This one viewer says,
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"Please pray for my two friends
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who are going through
anxiety and suicidal depression.
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God, I ask in Jesus name
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that You would wrap
a hedge of protection
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around these
friends, their minds,
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Lord, of all our minds.
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We can be so easily
drawn into the things
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that are going on around us,
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the troubles and the
strife and the unsurity.
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Lord, I pray that
You will not allow
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that You will
give us the strength
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not to look on the things
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and to be persuaded
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or dissuaded by those things.
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But may we put our
confidence in You, Lord.
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Take away our anxiety, oh, God.
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Father, this one viewer says,
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" My brother passed recently.
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He'd been sick for many years."
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They're going
through this time of grief.
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Lord, I just ask
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that You would be
near the brokenhearted.
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Your Word claims
that You will be.
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One viewer calls in and says,
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"They were granted a scholarship
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for the MBA
program at the university.
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But there are
some technical problems
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with the enrollment portal.
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I kindly ask
that you please pray
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that these
problems can be resolved.
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Lord, sometimes
most of the time,
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I don't understand technology.
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But, Lord, I know
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that You are the
master of everything.
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So even with technology,
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I pray for those
who are struggling
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to understand praying
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that things will
get a little easier
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with technology.
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And so I'm asking God
that You would put people
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in their path
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that would help
them to understand
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maybe how to access
technology more easy.
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Lord, we are here
to help each other.
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That helps us
understand a lot of things
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if we will just give
what we have to the cause
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to help each
other understand things.
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Many viewers again are praying
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for the
salvation of a lost soul.
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So I ask, oh, God,
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that You would hear our prayers,
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meet these needs.
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Give us understanding.
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Lord, I do know
that Psalm 145:3 says,
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"Great is the Lord
and most worthy of praise,
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His greatness
no one can fathom."
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So in all of your
lack of understanding,
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I encourage you
just to trust in God
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know that He has the whole world
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in His hand
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and you can depend on Him.
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Amen.
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