SPEAKER_00: The psalmist writes in Psalm 62, pour out your hearts to Him, for God is our refuge.
SPEAKER_00: There is a sense of freedom with being honest.
SPEAKER_00: Today, as we take a moment to pause and focus on Jesus, we are going to talk to him honestly.
SPEAKER_00: It can be tempting to clean up our prayers, to say what sounds right instead of what's actually true.
SPEAKER_00: But God is not looking for polished words.
SPEAKER_00: He is inviting your real heart.
SPEAKER_00: He already knows your thoughts, your emotions, and your struggles, and he welcomes them.
SPEAKER_00: Prayer becomes powerful when it becomes honest, when we stop hiding and start opening up and trusting that He is who he says he is.
SPEAKER_00: Thank God that you can come to him honestly and openly.
SPEAKER_00: Your fears, frustrations, questions, and hopes.
SPEAKER_00: Don't filter your words or hold anything back.
SPEAKER_00: Ask him to meet you in that honesty and to bring comfort, clarity, and peace to your heart.
SPEAKER_00: Invite him to remind you that you are safe with him.
SPEAKER_00: Pause for a moment of reflection.
SPEAKER_00: Focus on the truth that you are fully known by God and His love will never wane.
SPEAKER_00: Lord, we praise you that your love never fails, never retreats, never condemns.
SPEAKER_00: Thank you for being our Father who listened to us and meets us in our pain and our weaknesses and our struggles and our disappointment.
SPEAKER_00: Thank you that you are not scared off by our questions, nor do you reprimand our honesty.
SPEAKER_00: Thank you for a true loving relationship with you.
SPEAKER_00: In our candor, we come back to what we know to be true.
SPEAKER_00: You are good, you are faithful, you love us, you are with us.
SPEAKER_00: We worship you today, in the very middle of whatever is going on in our life today, and come back to a place of rest and trust in you.
SPEAKER_00: Amen.