SPEAKER_00: Today, as we pray together, quiet your mind before God.
SPEAKER_00: So often, the busyness of our days and clutter of our minds is what distracts us from God's constant presence.
SPEAKER_00: Our surroundings can help prepare a place for our bodies and minds to pause and connect with God.
SPEAKER_00: But take 20 seconds to breathe and focus on God to get your brain ready.
SPEAKER_00: It says this: My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways.
SPEAKER_00: To know there is a God with a bigger plan, a higher perspective, a wider scope, who is in control and on our side is an overwhelmingly wonderful thing.
SPEAKER_00: There will be times when God's ways don't immediately make sense.
SPEAKER_00: And his ways reaches beyond what we concurrently see.
SPEAKER_00: Obedience often means trusting that God knows something we do not.
SPEAKER_00: His ways are always shaped by love and wisdom.
SPEAKER_00: He is a good God and a loving father towards you.
SPEAKER_00: Can we start by thanking God for that?
SPEAKER_00: For that higher perspective, that wisdom beyond our logic, strategizing and understanding.
SPEAKER_00: Take thirty seconds and reflect on times when his plans prove better than your own and thank him for it.
SPEAKER_00: Be honest about your questions and frustrations.
SPEAKER_00: Then ask him for the grace to trust him even when you don't fully understand.
SPEAKER_00: Invite him to strengthen your confidence in his goodness and wisdom.
SPEAKER_00: Take a deep breath and focus on releasing the need to understand everything as you exhale.
SPEAKER_00: Let trust become your response to uncertainty.
SPEAKER_00: Inhale, I don't see it yet.
SPEAKER_00: And exhale, but I trust you.
SPEAKER_00: Inhale, God, I don't see it yet.
SPEAKER_00: And exhale, I trust you.
SPEAKER_00: Inhale, Lord, I don't understand it yet.
SPEAKER_00: And exhale, but I trust you.
SPEAKER_00: Lord, thank you that your ways are higher and better than ours.
SPEAKER_00: We trust you and strive only to enter your rest.
SPEAKER_00: Give us patience in the waiting, peace in the middle, and trust while things are still in process.
SPEAKER_00: Amen.