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Empowering Your Spirit When Words Fall Short By Using Pocket Prayers. How These Prayers Offer Comfort, Guidance & A Sense of Connection in Those Moments When You Need it Most. | Pep Talk Wednesdays Rewind
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Sometimes I just I don't have the pray we've all been all been there at least once or another. Whether it's whether it's time of uncertain certainty or simply feeling overwhelmed, finding solace and feeling connected with God can some feel challenging? But today. Today we're exploring transformative power. Power pocket prayers and discovering the found impact on our hearts and our souls. And our souls. Two things are as powerful. What is going on Beautiful people. You are listening to the Affirmations for Black Girls podcast where we focus on personal growth and cultivating a healthy relationship with ourselves. I am your host Tyra the creative actress, content creator and mental health enthusiast. And welcome back for our second second ever Pep Talk Wednesday. So welcome to Pep Talk Wednesdays where I give you a bite sized dose of inspiration and empowerment to hype you up for the rest of the week. So consider this your midweek soul recharge. So get ready to be uplifted, motivated and equipped with the confidence to conquer any challenge that comes your way. As the week comes to a close, so let's dive right on in. So today y', all, we're going to be talking about pocket prayers. I kind of talked about it or I touched on it in Sunday's episode. If you haven't listened to Sunday's episode, finish listening to this one first cuz it's short and sweet and then go listen to Sundays. But if you don't know what a pocket prayer is, A pocket prayer is a prayer that you keep in your pocket. So it's a prayer to help remind you of God's love for you. And it's a prayer that you can turn to when you don't have the words or you are wary or all you can do is cry and you just want to sit in God's presence or you just don't have the strength to pray, don't know what to say. All of the things it's there to help you in those times where you do not have the words. Now lately I've been finding myself in this, this situation more often because I'm going through a very uncomfortable, transformative season in my life, I guess. You know, over the last year I've had a lot of change and sometimes I just find myself wanting to be in God's presence and listening to worship music and doing that whole thing but literally wanting to like talk with God and not having the words. So I have since turned to pocket prayers and they have been so helpful in kind of jump starting me on that journey of prayer when I am feeling weary or when I do not have the words. So I've been seeing a lot of pocket prayers on Instagram and I have a whole save folder. I highly recommend that if you are on Instagram, one tailor your timeline to your season of life that you're in. And what I mean by that is if you are in a season of singleness, you, you don't need to be seeing a bunch of relationships on your profile on your timeline in a sense of, you know, like me and somebody's son or just seeing relationship goals and all that type of stuff. It's more beneficial for you to put yourself or to curate your timeline to fit your season. So maybe you see different creators who post about singleness and making the most of being single or even, you know, you don't have to not follow People who aren't in relationships. Relationships. But just make sure that you are. That you are taking in healthy things on your feed that complement your life and the season of life that you are in right now. So I say that because lately I've been seeing a lot of pocket prayers on Instagram and I've been saving them to a folder. I created a save folder and everybody, I highly recommend you do this. I created a save folder called Prayers to Remember and that's how I started my pocket prayer journey. So I wrote down a few pocket prayers and I'm just going to take you guys through them. They are very short and sweet. And also I was, when I was doing a little bit of research on pocket prayers, I realized that pocket prayers are also quilts or something like that. I've never seen a pocket prayer quilt. But long story short, their quilts with the prayers sewn into them and you can always have access to them, you can always remind yourself of God's love for you through these prayers. And pocket prayers are, are short, short and sweet. So that's why I love them. Especially if you're in a stage of life where it's like I don't really know how to pray. I don't feel comfortable praying. I want to pray in my mind versus in my, like with my, my voice. Whatever stage you are in your prayer life. I think pocket pray, great tool to use to level yourself up. So I'm going to read a couple of the ones that I've been loving to you guys right now. And I have these all. I found all of these on Instagram during a time when I was just so weary and I just didn't have the words. Lord, help me to know when it's time to make moves, when it's time to stay planted, and when it's time to uproot.
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Short, sweet and to the point.
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I'm going to say that one again and then I'm going to just go through all of the rest of them. I have three more after this. Lord, help me to know when it's time to make moves, when it's time to stay planted, and when it's time to uproot. Help me to recognize the doors you've opened for me and to walk through them with your confidence. Oh God. Dear God, please remove any and everything in my life that wasn't sent by you. Please give me the discernment to understand the difference between your blessings and the things that were sent to be. Lessons heal my heart from any past hurts, trauma and Pain, Please open my heart to be able to accept all the things that you are removing out of my life. I trust in you, O God, and I know that you will never leave me nor forsake me. In your name, I pray. Amen. I probably should have put that one last, but I have one more. Lord, I pray for clarity and peace of mind. Oh, God, Father God, please fill me with your wisdom and spirit. Father God, I pray that you keep my mind, that you fortify it, that you renew it along with my spirit. That's one that I made. I thought I got all these from Instagram. That is a pocket prayer that I made myself, and it's one that I have. Especially after my breakup, I was feeling so lost and unclear and my mind was always racing. I just. I would pray every morning, a quick prayer before I would go work out as soon as I woke up. Lord God, please keep my mind. Keep my mind positive. Lord God, please, please shield me from any negative thoughts, anything that is going to bring. Bring me down on this day. That is the type of thing that I would pray and when it worked, those short prayers, because I would start to feel kind of like hesitant or just self conscious about the way that I was praying in that time. But one thing that I can say that I truly believe is God is going to meet you where you at, wherever you are, in your stage of life, your seasons of life, just call out for him and he will meet you where you are. And you have to believe that everybody is not on the same level when it comes to prayer. And as long as your heart is pure and you have good intentions, God is going to meet you where you are. I truly believe that. So all of these prayers, I will have them linked down below in the show notes if you would like to have them or, you know, save them for yourself. I personally write all mine down in a little journal and then I go back to it or my notes in my phone. If I need to say them while I'm on the go, they're in my phone. So they're down below for you guys. I. But these are some of my favorite pocket prayers, y'. All.
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We've gone through some of the pocket prayers that I found on Instagram, and I even read for you guys one of mine that I created myself. But you can create your own pocket prayers tailored to your needs. So I was in church one Sunday, and my pastor was just saying, you like when you pray, use the word of God. So use Bible verses to help you tailor your prayer. So for example, let's say that you're going through a deep hurt and you want to heal this hurt. Find a Bible verse that talks about this season of life that you're in, or what you need help with or what you want do to want pray to pray about. So healing hurt. There is a verse in 1st Peter, verse 5 and 10. It says, and after you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will himself restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you. So that's the Bible verse. And you can take what is said in this verse based on what it's saying about God, and you can add that into your prayers to just take your prayers to the next level. God loves when or this is what my pastor told me. God loves when you use his Word in prayer because it's showing that one you know his Word and you are praising him in this prayer that you are praying. So this is one that I just simply wrote based on this Bible verse. Dear God, I am hurting. I know you are my provider and will bring me through this. Lord God, please fill me with strength, oh Lord, and restore me, God, and establish me so that I feel rooted and strong. In your name I pray. Amen. And it's very simple to make these prayers, y' all like, literally. If you want to just write them down on a sticky note. Even if in this Moment something has come into your spirit and you have a prayer that you want to write out. Go ahead and write it out. I think there is a lot of stigma around prayer, and you think there has to be a right way to do it and all of the things. But what I've learned in from my pastor at my church, right, that I go to now at one church is your prayer life. Is your prayer life. How you talk to God is how you talk to God. It don't have to be how your mama talk to God. It don't have to be how your daddy talk to God. It don't have to be how your friends talk to God. It don't have to be how nobody else talk to God. That is your relationship with God. I think once I started to realize through going to church and listening to my pastor, once I started to realize that this is actually a relationship and I. I started to say, oh, this is just like a best friend, like a platonic relationship. This is just like a romantic relationship. This is just like a physical relationship. It is a physical relationship because God is the one true living God.
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Amen.
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I'm not going to take you out of church today. But what I'm saying is God will always meet you where you at, and you pray to him in the best way you know how. Don't feel scared. Don't feel like you don't know what you're doing. Don't worry about none of that because that you need vulnerability, and that is intimacy between you and God. Ain't got nothing to do with me. Ain't got nothing to do with nobody else around you. That is between you and God. So no matter how you think you sound or how you think you look, that's between you and your God. So all of the other stuff needs to fall to the wayside. And I know that can be easier said than done. But what I had to do was truly sit with myself and say, tyra, this is between me and God. I don't care how I sound. I got to the point where I was like, I just don't care how I sound. Like, God, I need to talk to you. I need to feel you next to me. And these pocket prayers can really help be such a great tool in molding your prayer life and helping you level up your prayer life and feel closer to God and getting your. Your prayers answered. So I really hope that you guys start jotting down a few things. Like, even if, for example, if you're like, I just don't really know how to pray. I don't know how to do it. I feel like it has to be this way, but I don't know if I got that in me. When I talk to God, I talk to him just like I be talking to y', all, and I'm not even praying. Not even. Not even praying. I'm not even playing. Like, I will literally be like, God, like, I need to feel you. I don't feel you or God. I'm hurting so bad right now. Like, Lord, please fill me with the strength, God, because yesterday that girl really had me messed up. Or whatever the case may be. Like, prayer is a conversation, and over time, the way that you pray may transform into something else. Or depending on the day, it may sound a little different. And what I mean by that is when I'm at. In going to bed at night and I'm praying, I'm just talking to God. It's a conversation back and forth with God. But whenever I'm in worship mode and I'm in my, like, prayer time, like, listening to worship music and stuff, I get really, really, like, I don't even know the correct, like, what I'm trying to say, but, like, I sound like how everybody else be sounding when they pray, like, in church, you know, like, oh, Lord, Father, God, all that kind of stuff. That's when that starts to come out of me, and I'm like, wow. Like, there's a time and place for everything. And it's fluid. Your prayer life is fluid. It doesn't have to be a certain type of way. You just have to be true to who you are and have good intention behind the words that you are saying and truly believe that you are connecting with your God. And the last thing I wanted to bring up, since we're talking about prayer life as well, is I. I. Last Sunday, I was listening to the sermon at my church, and the pastor said something that really struck me. He said, worship is a gateway into the presence of God. And a lot of us can sometimes just pray but not worship. Some. Some of us can do a lot of praising God but not worship. Some of us can do a lot of. Of, like, praising God but not praying. So it's very important that you are doing all the things but a easy way or a great way to encourage yourself to get into prayer mode. And talking with God and being in. In his presence is worship. And there are a lot of different ways of worship, but one of the easiest ways for me is through worship music. And one time, what was I doing? Y' all so every morning I listen to my praise and worship playlist on Apple Music, and I'll link it down below for you guys if you want a playlist. But it's. It's really all over the place, and I really want to separate it between praise music and worship music, because praise music is more like, yeah, Jesus, yeah. Go, go. Yeah, God, I love you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And worship music or praise music is. Is more so, like the upbeat sounds and, you know, just having a good time praising God. But the worship music really takes you into the presence of God. And it's like the slower tracks, it's the ones that really speak to your heart and speak to what you're going through in life. Those are the songs that really helped get me personally into the presence of God. I remember one morning I was listening to my praise and worship playlist, and Maverick City Music started playing, and then a bunch of other stuff started playing, and then this song started playing called Million Little Miracles. And it literally goes miracles on miracles. So many little miracles. And then it continues and it goes, 1, 2, 3, 4. I can't even count them all. I can't even. I can't even count them all. And I know I can't sing, you guys, but it just repeated that. I can't even. I can't even count them all. I can't even. I can't even count them all. 1, 2, 3, 4. I can't even count them all. And when I say I just became overwhelmed with the presence of God and I just had to go into prayer, like, it just shot out of me. It wasn't even me saying, oh, my gosh, let me sit here and pray. I just had to praise and worship and thank God for all of the miracles, the many tiny miracles that he has given me in my life. And I just felt an overwhelming sense of gratefulness. And I just stayed in prayer for about 30 minutes, just praying over my house, praying over my family, praying over my career, praying over my life, just thanking God for all of the blessings that he has already given me and everything that he has to come. And that was simply from that song playing and taking me into that place. I really believe that music is one of the. For me, one of the easiest ways to get into the presence of God. But as I said at the beginning of this episode, sometimes the music and everything, it's just like, I just want to talk to you, God. And sometimes I could be so. We can be so weary that we may need to use a pocket prayer. So if you found anything in this episode Convicting. Go ahead and take that step and make your first pocket prayer or use the ones that I gave you guys. Like I said, I linked them down below. But your challenge is to get at least one prayer in your pocket that you can always pull out to help you talk with God, to help you have a conversation with God, to help you to help bring you closer to God. Thank you guys so much for listening to this pep talk Wednesday. I really hope that this midweek soul recharge gets you through the rest of your week. This is the Affirmations for Black Girls podcast and I will about talk talk to you again on Sunday. Thank you so much for listening. Don't forget to like share and subscribe to the podcast and leave us a review because I absolutely love reading all of your reviews. Follow us on Instagram at Affirmations for Black Girls, on Twitter @AFBG_podcast, and on YouTube @Affirmations for Black Girls. Thank you guys so much. I'll talk to you again soon.
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