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Open Discussion

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Good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome to our Care Let's Pray Ministries. This is Brenda Combs. I am your host. I have no script, no paper. This is just me being me live. Um, I just want to talk to you all this morning. I just want to be able to uh give you all just me this morning, amen. I just want you to know that God is good. God is so great, he's so faithful. Sometimes we don't realize how good God is. Now I want you to know that I've been spending a whole lot of time with God. I have been in Word, I've been in meditation, I've been in Scripture, I've been walking around the house, still talking to God in my head. And I want you to know, I'm very grateful for each and every one of you all this morning. I say it all the time, but I really do mean it. I want you to know that as I'm spending time with the Lord these next several weeks, deeper than what I've ever done before, I want you to know I'm not just going to the Lord for myself, but I'm going to God for you as well. Because there's nothing greater than us praying for one another, right? I don't know, you never met you in person. Some of you all, some of you are I might know and have seen you in person, but I want you to know that I'm praying for you. I didn't name this. God gave me this podcast, I care. Let's pray ministries because I truly do care about you. Even though I've never laid eyes on you, we never had a conversation. Some of us, I still want the best for you. I want God to bless you. I want God to protect you. I want God to cover you. I want God to keep you. I want God to bless your hands to be a blessing to others. I want God to overflow out of you into your family, your children, your church family, friends and even enemies, right? I want God to bless you through this podcast, through his word, through his touch. I want God to just bring things alive that you thought was never going to be awakened in your life again, right? I want you to know this morning that we serve a God that hears and answers every prayer. And I always say, I'm gonna keep on praying until God tells me otherwise. Until God tells me to stop praying, I'm gonna keep on praying. Even when my grandmother was sick and God rest her soul, I'm over praying. Lord, I know you can bring her back. You know, they said she had a brain bleed because she had a stroke. My grandmother, God rest her soul, was um 87 years old at the time. And she's done lived her life. She always said, I done live my life. If God calls me home, I'm ready to go. Because I done I done raised my kids, my grandkids, and some of my great-grandkids. I'm ready. I'm like, girl, you ain't going nowhere. You're gonna be here when the sky crack open, right? And I mean, and then we got the call, like, hey, she had a stroke, she's in the hospital, she got this brain bleed. And I'm going, God, I know that you can turn this around. If you can raise Lazarus from the dead, if you could raise people that's on their sick bed, I know you can raise her. I'm going in my prayer closet and I'm praying to the heels which cometh my help, right? I'm praying for dear life that God will revive my grandmother. And I was in her working, it was on a Saturday. And um, we're talking about bringing my grandmother home, you know, with you know, hospice. And I'm still praying, God would turn this thing around. So I came home and had to do some stuff for work on a Saturday. And I got a prayer closet, it's in my office. And my little dog Ginger, she went up to the prayer closet. Ain't never did this before. And she sat down in front of it and started barking. And my whole stomach dropped because I already knew. And then Ginger left my office. I said, Ginger, who done went in there? She went outside my office and sat outside my door and did not come back in her. And I said, okay. I said, God, I already know I'm gonna have to go in this closet. And when I opened up the doors, I went in there and I sat on my little pillow. And I started getting emotional because I was like, She's ready. You know what I'm saying? I'm like, man, I said, God, I feel like she's batting my prayers back down here. And I don't like that. I don't appreciate Virginia Wilson pushing my prayers back down here. I'm praying for her to be revived. I'm praying for her to stay, but I can feel it in my spirit that she's batting them back down here. And then I said, okay, God, let me change my prayer. I said, Lord, if it's your will to take her home, then let me change my prayer around. If it's your will, then I pray that you let my granddaddy, my papa, meet her to take her on in. I don't want to be selfish. I don't want to sit here and praying for you to revive her, but she backed down her upper bat, my prayers back down her. And I mean, I was like, this is it. Like, my grandma's trying to check up out of here, right? But God gave me a peace to keep praying for peace, but to let her go. I don't know why I'm telling this story this morning, but it was on me to just hope this morning. So I'm just being me. So I just want you to know that sometimes we be praying for stuff and we wanted to turn around for our good, we want to turn around for our loved ones. But God is saying, it's okay. I got a different plan for them. I got a different plan for you. So you might be praying for one thing, but God's saying, I got another prayer out there. And we just gotta say, okay, God, if this is your will, then let thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Just prepare me to accept whatever your answer is, right? So I want you to know this morning that God knows and he understands. And sometimes we just gotta pray and say, God, help me to accept whatever your answer is. It might be good answers, it might be not the answer you want to hear, but you got to say, God, help me to accept. And I mean, my grandmother, God rest her soul, we got her home. And she, uh-uh, stop, uh-uh. She was still being genuine, right? But the greatest gift is when God gives you peace in the middle of sorrow. To know if someone told you year after year that they ready, or they tell you a month or two before, hey, this is my plan, something had to miss why it won't happen. And they're making plans before you even know why they're making plans. And God can give you peace in the middle of sorrow. That is such a joy because we hurt, but we can hurt in peace because God is comforting us. He's I'm your comforter. I will never leave you nor forsake you, right? So this morning I'm just going to pray for God's will to be done on earth as it is in heaven. Once again, I say it's just me. So I just want you to know that I'm happy that you're here. I'm happy that you're listening. And whatever you're going through, you're not going through it alone. I'm telling you, God is in the room. I'm telling you that I'm praying for God to touch your situations, your circumstances, whatever you're pleading for this morning, whatever you're praying for this morning, whatever you're going through this morning, I'm praying that God would hear and answer your prayers this morning. Whatever it may be, that he will give you the strength to keep on praying, to keep on fasting, to keep on studying, to keep on following him. Because he knows what's best. Amen. Let us go to the Lord in prayer. Our Father which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, forgive us our debts as we forgive our debt terse, and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen, amen, amen. In the name of Jesus, Henley Father, we bow down at your throne, full of grace and mercy, just saying, Thank you, oh God. Thank you, oh God, for this discussion this morning. Thank you, oh God, for the openness this morning. Thank you, oh God, for being in the room this morning. Hunly Father, I'm praying over every listener this morning. Uh, whenever they listen to God, it might not be morning, it might be evening for them or afternoon. But God, this morning, I'm praying that you will hear and answer their prayers. Their sounding prayers, their loud prayers, their crying prayers. God, I'm praying right now that you will come into the room or wherever they may be and speak directly to their heart. Heavenly Father, you know their heart. You know exactly their trials, their tribulations, their situations, their stopping points, their confusion, their stress. And God, I'm asking you to come into whatever room they may be in and answer their prayers. And even if you don't have an answer right now that you want to share, oh God, give them something to help their unbelief. God, anyone who's facing a real decision that's heartbreaking, God, I pray you give them peace in the middle of their storm. God, I'm praying right now for the one who feels all alone, feel like you ain't listening to nothing they got to say. God, remind them that you are still God and there's no other God before you. God, remind them that you are faithful. Remind them that you are still there. Remind them that you are there listening. We just got to be patient and be still until that change, until the answer comes. Holy Father, I'm praying for the one who's lost a loved one close to them. God, give them their smell back, give them their joy back, give them their peace back, oh God. Let them know that their loved one is okay. Let them know that their mother, their father, their brother, their sister, friend, whoever it may be, that passed away, that they're okay. That you're holding them, that you're comforting them, that they are rejoicing right now. So let them know that they're okay. It's okay to smell. It's okay to breathe. It's okay to keep on living because their loved one is okay. They're with you. And we're all striving to get there, oh God. We're all trying to get to eternal life. So, God, give them peace today to know that their loved one is okay. Honey Father, the person that's stressing over something that they don't really need to be stressing over. God, give them peace to let go of the foolery. Let them know that we're gonna walk in peace, that they're gonna walk in grace, they're gonna walk in favor because you said my grace is sufficient for you. So, God, remind everybody this morning that your grace is sufficient to get us through everything that we're going through in life. Remind them they're not walking alone, oh God. They might be in the fiery furnace like the Hebrew boys. Let them know that you're protecting them, oh God. They might feel like they're in the lion's den with Daniel, but let them know that you are protecting them from danger, seen and unseen, oh God. God, I'm praying right now that you will cover every listener. God, I'm praying for protection. I'm praying for restoration. I'm praying for peace. I'm praying for solitude. I'm praying for you to be their strong tower, oh God. God, give them endurance, give them peace, which surpasses all understanding. God, I'm asking you to show them where you are in their life. Walk with them, talk with them, and show them. Remember when you were in this situation, I brought you through. Remember when you were going through that, I showed you how to get out. Remember when so and such did this or did that? I wiped your tears away and let you know that everything's going to be alright. God, sometimes we need to be reminded of your faithfulness, of how you brought us through again and again and again. Remind every listener, oh God, that you are still with us this morning, that you are a God that changes not. God, I'm praying that they smile today, rejoice today, and they can stand up and walk boldly in your word today. God, fill them up with your reassurance, fill them up with your confidence, fill them up with your strength. Strength, fill them up with your fight, fill them up, oh God, to press ahead. Fill them up, oh God, to know that they are not alone, Heavenly Father. Give them the strength to fight, to fight everything that comes their way. And when I say fight, I ain't saying fight alone. I'm saying I'm fighting this thing because God, you already got it. So I'm not gonna let the world tell me one thing when I know my father said the battle's his. So I'm gonna fight my overthinking. I'm gonna fight my doubt. I'm gonna fight my fears. I'm gonna fight what people say about me that ain't right. I'm going to fight through the word of Jesus Christ because I know what Jesus did for me when he walked this earth. Holy Father, remind all of us to fight. We got to fight and remind ourselves that you are with us each and every day. Jehovah Java, Jehovah Nisi Elohim, El Shaddai, Adonai, you are with us every day. So, God, help us to fight through our circumstances, fight through the naysayers, fight through our fears and our doubts. Remind us that your word is true. Remind us that you are in the room. Remind us that you're walking with us, right? We just talked about Psalms 23 yesterday. Yea, though I walked through the valley of shadow of death, David said, I will fear no evil, for thou art with me, right? So, God, we know that you are with every listener. Touch them today, oh God. I'm interceding on their behalf whatever they're thinking about right now. Bless it, oh God. Protect it, oh God. Reassure them, oh God. Protect them from the hand of the enemy, protect them from the devil, Heavenly Father, who's seeking to destroy. God, cover them by the blood of Jesus Christ today, and not just today, but every day. Cover them with the strength of the mighty God that we serve. Give them the power to fight, to not give up, to not quit. Give them the power to fight. To fight, to fight and not give up. God, give them the spirit to fight. Every morning they get up to say, I'm gonna get up, I'm gonna get out this bed. I'm not gonna sit in depression. I'm not gonna sit in anxiety. I'm gonna fight my way through it. I don't have the money to pay my bills. I'm not gonna stress about it. I'm gonna fight through it because I know it's only temporary. Fight through whatever your mind's trying to tell you negative. When people come to you talking negative, fight. And say, I'm not gonna hear that today. No, no, no, no, no, no. Because my God is walking with me. I'm gonna get through it. It's gonna be all right. God constantly reminds us that you are with us. It's in your darling son, Jesus Christ's name, we pray. Amen, amen, amen. Amen, amen, amen. Fight. Fight, fight, fight. That's in my spirit this morning. You better fight. Whoever needs to fight, fight. Do not give up, do not quit. Fight. Don't throw in the tail, don't throw in your white flag. Fight. Keep picking up your Bible. Keep reading your scriptures. Keep worshiping. Keep singing. Keep praising. Keep reminding yourself to encourage yourself because there's something in you that God sees that is valuable. He sees your heart. He sees your mind. He sees your spirit. And he says, You are worthy. You are special. That's why he made you in his image. Don't give up. Fight. You are special. You are so you so special. You don't even know how special you are. You are special. You are loved. You are loved more than words could ever describe. God loves you beyond the moon and the stars. I ain't even met hell for y'all. And I love y'all beyond the moon and the stars. Because God has loved me so much, I ain't got no choice but to love everybody. I love you more than you will ever know. And I pray that God let you feel love today, warmth today, reassurance today. I pray that God shines his light upon you times a thousand today to remind you that you are not alone. Amen. Smile. You better be smiling right now because you are chosen. You are God's. And when you belong to Him, you matter. You're valuable. Smile because you're beautiful and you're wonderfully made by the pottery himself. He molded you, He's shaping you, He's transforming you. You don't get back in the church. You don't get back in the choir. You don't get back to playing instruments. You won't get back to doing the gifts and talents that God has given you. Don't let church hurt stop you from doing what God's called you to do. Fight through the negativity, fight through the church hurt. Fight, fight, fight. Because God has put something special in you. Amen. This is our Care Less Pray Ministries. Have a glorious day. I'm sorry I talked your ear off this morning, but continue to fight.