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Hey y'all ! Welcome to another Friday with CWCOI ! In this week's episode, our host, Ally Yost talks about trusting the Lord in prayer. What it looks like to trust Him even when we feel like we are praying the same prayers over and over again. God...
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Hello, everybody. Welcome to another episode of Christ with Coffee on Ice. I am your host, Ali Yost. It is a joy and honor to be with you guys today. We have our coffee on ice right here. I did order this coffee because I didn't have time to physically make my coffee this morning. We have it in our CWCOI tumbler, guys. What a beautiful day. What a beautiful day to be alive. Today is the Lord's day, and I am just so grateful to be able to hang out with you guys. Oh, my gosh. It's kind of funny because sometimes when I'm talking to y', all, I like. I'm like, how are you guys? And I, like, physically can't hear you answering me, even though I know you are, like, mentally, maybe in your head or in the comment section. But as I'm recording this, it's just funny because I'm like. I want, like, actually wish I could get a response from you guys, but I can't right now. At least I will have to be patient and wait for some comments in the comment section if you're watching on YouTube. But, yeah, I love y'. All. I'm so excited to be here. Listen, I have been feeling it on my heart to talk about this topic. And I know I always say this. I don't know if this is just my doubt where I'm like, I don't know if this is what we're going to talk about the whole episode. And then we always talk about it the whole episode. But, yeah, I don't know if it's going to take the entire duration. It may, but I really feel it on my heart to talk about. Because personally, I'll just be honest. This is something that I have been walking through, and I think every single Christian experience experiences. This is praying about something over and over and over and over and over again and just being obedient in that and being like God, you know, I know that you call us to earnestly just ask, seek, and knock. And so that's what I'm gonna do because I have faith and I know that you're gonna do this thing. And sometimes coming back to the Lord and praying about it again after you've already prayed about it is giving faith that he's gonna do it, you know, and it's not something that you're just gonna pray about once and then you're like, ah, okay, and you give up. You know, sometimes it's hard. Harder, I guess, to, like, go back to the same thing and continue to pray about it. Over and over again. I don't know if that makes sense. Maybe I should just speak for myself, y'. All. I don't want to like, afflict or like, project anything on you guys, but I'll just speak for myself and say that sometimes it actually takes more faith for me to come back to the same thing that hasn't been answered, even though I've already prayed for it. And like, muster up the courage and really deny my flesh by spending speaking up and asking the Lord again. Because I don't know, I guess maybe it could be a form of self protection. I don't know if it's just, you know, my flesh wanting to protect myself and be like, don't pray for it again. Because you're just going to get your hopes up even more. And you know, you already prayed. So it's like God took, you know, he took it, he heard it. You don't need to pray about it again. I have actively practiced that of just denying that and be like, no. Like, I know that my God appreciates consistent prayer and coming back and praying about the same thing again and again and again. And we've talked about this on the POD before, I think, but that there's a chance that the Lord can actually change his mind. When you are earnestly asking and pleading for something. God can expedite things and he can say, you know what? She has been so faithful, he has been so loyal, and he has been earnestly asking for this thing over and over again. And you know what? I'm going to fetch him a bone. I'm going to move a few things around and I'm going to expedite this thing just because of how much faith they have. It's because of our faith, y', all, that the Lord would ever consider doing something like that. But still, sometimes that's not always the case, right? And we can be praying about something over and over again, and maybe we can hope that the Lord will expedite it or just do something in that moment. Sometimes he does, but sometimes he doesn't. And I'll say that that has been something that just in these last couple of days, I've been like, wow, God, like, I have had so much faith for this thing and I have prayed for this so many times, and I just don't feel like I'm seeing any movement in it, you know, and it's not that I expect expect immediate results, but sometimes when you're praying for something for months or years, it can get discouraging. It sounds silly, but it's just true. And I want to say it out loud because it's. It is something I believe a lot of us have felt at least one time in our life is the question of God. Do you even hear me? Like, do you even hear me? Why do I feel like nothing is happening here? There's no progress. There's no movement. And so that's just. That's what I want to talk about today, because I think it's real. If anything, I want you all to know that you are so seen, validated. And, yeah, you're just seen in that. I feel it, too. And I don't think that any of us are exempt from that, no matter how much faith we have in God or not. So there's this particular thing that has been weighing on my chest a lot just in these last few days, this prayer request that I have made from the Lord. And it's not even particularly anything of. For me. It's not like, God, I want this thing so bad. There's prayers that I've made for other people that I love that I want to see breakthrough in their life for, and it just hasn't happened. And I trust the Lord so much. It's not that I believe that it won't happen, but I'm just kind of like, God, how far are you going to allow this to get before you intervene? Like, how far are you going to let this go until you do something about it? And that is like, what scares me sometimes is I'm like, God, please don't let this get too far, you know? And it's like, that's me trying to lean on my own understanding where it's like, you know, God obviously, ultimately knows. He knows everything. He knows the future, and he knows his plans that he has. And he has taken note of my prayers. I think that that's just a very real thing, is like, being like God. But please don't let it get this far. You know, like, I'll be patient, and I've been patient, but please don't let it get to this point. There just hasn't been any movement in this particular prayer that I have brought to the Lord. I mean, I guess maybe there has been a little bit, but not the type of breakthrough that I've been praying for specifically. Right. I'll just say that one day I was, like, literally on my knees. And I don't know if you guys know the kind of prayers where you're on your face, like, basically pleading and begging the Lord, like, begging him, begging him Begging him, begging him, Being like, I would trade my life in exchange for making this thing happen. Like, that's how desperate I feel in that moment. I'm so, so desperate for the Lord to just answer this prayer. And I'm on my face and I just feel like it's like I am praying and I am pleading, and I am begging him with every fiber in my body to just make this thing happen. And, yeah, okay. I literally. What came to my mind in that moment, y', all, was the story of Hannah, I don't know, is that in First Samuel, where she was married to her husband and he had another wife. I forget his name. And that wife was getting pregnant and bearing children, and Hannah was not. And it was like the pain that she was going through with not being able to bear a child was excruciating. We've even read this story on the podcast, I think. And there was a point where Hannah had gone to the chapel, I don't know, or a church, and Hannah had gone before the Lord, got on her knees and was in such excruciating pain and desperation. I believe that the type of prayer I was pleading was the type of prayer that Hannah was praying in that moment where it's like every fiber of her body was like, lord, please, please do this. Please, Like, I'm begging you. I will give you anything, you know, but, like, please let this thing happen. And she actually, that was a part of her prayer where she was like, if you give me a son, I will literally hand him over to you, and his whole life will be dedicated to you, God. Like, he will only live you, serve you, and for you to use him in a way. And that was Samuel. And even in that moment, I think, what was it the priest that came up to her and was like, you're drunk. Like, he saw the way that she was kind of frantic and just crying, probably profusely, and just kind of acting a little, like, crazy, you know, Cuz that's how desperate she was. And she was like, no, I promise you, I'm not drunk. I'm just desperate, and I need the Lord to show up. And so as I was in that moment, that was the scripture that came up. And also I felt the Lord was leading me in that moment to a place of serious surrender. Because I think that sometimes, y', all, when we persistently pray about a thing, it can accidentally be put on a pedestal, and it can accidentally be put in a place of idolization or we feel because of our prayers and because of the way that we're consistently showing up, praying about this thing. It's kind of giving a sense of control or maybe leaning on our own understanding. And I felt that the Lord was like, hey, you've let this get to a place where you actually haven't served, surrendered it to me anymore. Desperation is a good place to be in. And I do believe that is a very effective prayer is when we are in such desperation, oh, my gosh, does the Lord hear us? You know, I really believe that in those times, God's heart really does extend to us, and he feels it with us. He feels it with us. So desperation can be productive, especially in intercession and prayer. But we can't let desperation lead us to a place where now we feel like we are the only thing that can control that. That if this is going to happen, I have to do something about it. And granted, yes, we should pray, we should intercede. But also surrender has to be in that same room. We're like, okay, I'm gonna plead and I'm gonna pray, and I'm gonna intercede, and I'm gonna just go in right in prayer. And like, whatever that looks like for you, like, doing that. But then also following it up with surrender and being like, but, God, even if this doesn't happen immediately, even if this never happens, I have to trust that it's yous will. Like, I have to surrender that I have to surrender the results. What I'm saying is that you need to give up, but we have to accept that God has a plan and it might look different than the way it is in our mind. And so now I'm, like, taking this thing that I've been so desperately praying for, this breakthrough. And I go, okay, God, you're right. I need to surrender it. I need to just give it to you. Because I feel like I've been potentially leaning on my own understanding in this. And I need to trust that you care just as much, if not actually more about this situation than I do. I know that you do. So I have to trust that I need to remember that. That you care more about this than I do. Which sometimes is hard to believe. If you really care and your heart is invested and you really love someone or whatever, whatever it is that you could be interceding for. You could be like, I don't even know. I don't even know how God could care more than I care right now. But it's true. Actually, I think that that's just another part of God that is very hard for us to fathom is that we feel such intense emotions and feelings and things. But God created that. And I do believe that it's because he had them first. And he feels things exponentially bigger than we do, much bigger than we do. So I said, okay, God, I trust that. I trust that you care more about this than I do. Even if that's hard for me to fathom and wrap my mind around. I know that you care. I know that you hear me. I know that you've listened to me. I know that you have, you know, contained every tear in a bottle. Like you've taken note of every time I've come to your feet and asked you for this thing. And so I have to just trust you with it. And in that moment, there's a couple scenarios in the Bible that came to my mind also. Hannah's story. She has the son, right? Is the very thing that she's been desiring and yearning for her entire life was being a mother and bearing a child. She gives birth to this child, she loves it so much, she raises it for the first few months until it could start eating solid food. Samuel could start eating solid food. And then she gives Samuel away to the Lord, to the church, and says, he will now serve you. God had to give her son away. I cannot even imagine how painful that had to have been when she received the best thing that's ever happened to her, and then she had to give it back to God, because that's what she said. That's what she told. That was kind of, you know, the agreement with Lord is like, if you do this, God, I promise I'll do this. And so she was also fulfilling her side. So it felt like that. Like that kind of surrender and just trusting the Lord with that thing, you know, just as she was trusting the Lord with her son, Samuel. Another example is Abraham, where he had to put his son Isaac on the altar because the Lord was asking him to. He was about to be sacrificed. He said, okay, I surrender my son to you, Lord. In that moment, God said, okay, you've proven yourself loyal. Actually, you don't have to sacrifice your son. We're going to sacrifice this animal instead. So it's shown in the Bible how many times people have been tested to prove that they truly do trust God with the thing that they love most, the thing that matters most to them. Right? It could be a child, but it could be a situation. It just could be breakthrough in general. Whatever it is, you have to put that thing on the altar. You have to be like, God, I trust you that you're gonna take better care of this thing than I could. If I were actually in control of this and it was up to me, I actually wouldn't even do as good of a job as you will be able to do with this thing. I think also being able to, like, humble ourselves and remember who we are and who God is and say, okay, even if this was up to me, even if this was in my hands, I need to be humble enough to say, I probably can't do as good of a job with this thing if it was up to me than if I were to just give it to God and say, okay, God, it's yours. Because the things that God can do is beyond our understanding and way more than what we could ever do. And it doesn't matter how much you feel like you're skilled in this area or you're like, no, I could do that. I can. I can help save this person. Or, you know, but I can do this. I'm qualified. Like, I got it. You know, it doesn't matter how qualified we could feel in that. God is way more qualified. He's way more qualified, and we need to believe in the God of who he is. There's this scripture that comes to my mind, y'. All. It's in First Corinthians. I'd love for us to all open our Bibles, actually, and just read along. It's short, but I want you to physically read these words because this is a promise that God has made every single one of his children. If you are living and breathing and you love Jesus Christ, this is a promise that he has made you. Okay, we're going in First Corinthians. I am reading the NLT translation. 1 Corinthians 2, 9. No Eyes has seen, no ears has heard, and no mind has imagined what God has prepared for those who love him. That alone is a crazy statement. Is a crazy statement. God is telling us that our eyes have not seen, our ears have not heard, and no mind has imagined what God has prepared for those who love him. So no matter how many times your mind has gone into, you know, you're fantasizing about things or you're imagining that things could go this way if you just blank, or if God just let me do this thing with this person, it'll just end in blank. And if. If this could happen, like anything we've imagined is nowhere close to what God has prepared for those who love him. It's not anywhere near what you could ever imagine what God has planned for Your life and the things that you've been praying for, the things that you've been earnestly, earnestly praying for. And so just because it hasn't happened doesn't mean it will never happen. That God has made so many promises in this book that anything that we ask in his, in His Son's name, Christ Jesus, he will do. But there is a level of surrender that says, okay, God, but even if you have something better, I don't know, even if you have a better outcome, even if the outcome maybe is kind of like half what I thought it would be, but then half what you thought it would be, or maybe this doesn't come to pass because you have something better. Like, even if something doesn't come to pass, it doesn't mean that God forgot about that prayer, forgot about the fact that it actually, obviously it meant a lot to you for you to make that prayer. He's not just going to leave you high and dry and stranded, saying, sorry, you're not going to get that thing. And then I'm also not even going to have anything better to replace it. Do you know what I'm saying? Now, of course, this is only relevant to certain scenarios. Maybe this could be about a job, this could be about a relationship. When you surrender this thing, you've prayed about it, you've interceded, you've continued, you've earnestly, earnestly prayed about this thing, and you've also surrendered it and you've accepted, hey, God, but you're gonna have your way. And I surrender this thing, I give it to you, I put it on the altar, it's yours. And I trust that whatever you do with it is the best thing for me. And then let's say that he doesn't let that thing flourish, right? You don't get the job, the relationship with this person that you thought you'd spend the rest of your life with or whatever it looks like, y', all, I'm just using examples. And it doesn't continue, right? We have to trust that the Lord is not the kind of God that says, yes, sorry, I didn't want that for you, and then just continues to just, like, look in a different direction, has nothing better for you. Like, we have to actually believe that that's his heart and that's the kind of father he is, is that if he's going to deny something and say, no, this isn't for you, it's probably an actually likely every single time he has something else prepared for you that's better, that's Just his heart. That's who he is. And sometimes that's really hard to believe. When there might even be time between those things, it might not be an immediate replacement. Now there's like this time of like, okay, God's denied this thing. It didn't prosper in my life. And now I'm just waiting. And there's like this in between time where you're like, it must be because he had something better for me, but I'm still waiting for that thing. Does he even have something better for me? Like, did he forget about me? I've seen the way he's done it in other people's lives, but for me, I just feel like, I don't know, maybe he forgot about me. I mean, he does have to keep track of like a billion children. He's got a lot of us here on Earth, so maybe I kind of, you know, slipped through the cracks and that's just a straight up blatant lie from the enemy. God could never forget about you. He could never, ever forget about you. He was so intentional when he created you. He knitted you so perfectly in your mommy's womb, and he had every intention to support you in every single way. The big things, the little things, like, he was prepared to do that when he created you. So God forgetting you and you slipping through the cracks and, you know, just kind of becoming like someone over here while he's prioritizing all these other people is just not true. And maybe people have shown you that they can do that, but that's not who God is. But sometimes he doesn't give that replacement that's better for us immediately. Sometimes he does. Sometimes he does. Sometimes it's not that long of a waiting period, but sometimes there is a waiting period. So just because there's a in between, I feel like I should be plugging Ashley's book, the Joy of the in between by Ashley Hetherington. Y' all need to read that book. It's a daily devotional, actually, but it's true. Like, there. There has to be faith in God during that in between, knowing that he's the type of Father that would always give us something better. He's not going to take something out of our lives or not prosper something, even if it is a prayer of our heart, you know, or we believe that there's a certain thing that's good for us. We also have to believe that he's the kind of Father that has something prepared. He's prepared. Our God is efficient and he's proactive okay. So he's going to be prepared. He's prepared for that. I found this story online, and I want us to all kind of read it together because I think some of us could probably relate to this. It's off of this website called Encourage Me, and it says, when you keep praying, but nothing is changing. I was angry at God. There were things I had been praying for, praying about and praying through. Yet nothing seemed to be changing. Honestly, it felt like the more I prayed, the less things changed. I continued to pray earnestly. I had faith in who God is, which is where my anger was stemming from. I knew God could change things, so why wasn't He? My friends and I had been planning on going to a worship night at church. And when the evening arrived, I tried everything I could to get out of it. I didn't want to worship God. I didn't want to put a bow on things and pretend all was okay. I wanted to remain mad at Him. But I found myself inside a church at a worship night. Maybe God's voice would break through the thick wall of silence I've been encountering. Maybe I'd experience a fresh revelation. Maybe my heart would soften under the weight of his glory. For the first few songs, I stood with my arms crossed like a teenager. Then a song began to play about how God always remains the same. Something inside me broke as I sang. Tears flooded down my face and the anger that twisted inside me felt a lot like grief. You say you are the same Yesterday, today and forever. I prayed. I know you can move in power. I know you can change things. I cried as I told God. I felt hurt by Him. I didn't understand why it felt like nothing was changing. Even when I knew he could change things. I still don't understand why sometimes God says yes to some things and says no to others. So what do you do when nothing seems to be changing? Even when you ask God to change it, you keep asking. It can feel like the worst kind of answer, especially when you're hurt by what can feel like God's silence. But Jesus told his disciples to keep asking, to keep seeking, and to keep knocking. Jesus told his disciples stories to show them that they should always pray and not give up. Even when I act like a sulky teen in God's incredible kindness, he keeps the invitation wide open. To keep asking, to keep coming. And the reason we keep asking and seeking and knocking and coming and crying and hoping is because God is faithful and trustworthy and always good. The mistake so many Christians make is praying Only when we feel like it, or praying only when we feel like we've tidied ourselves up. But that's not the invitation Jesus offers. His invitation through Paul is, to quote, never stop praying. We can accept his invitation each and every day. When we are crushed with despair, we can come to him and pour out our hearts. When our prayers are answered the way we asked, we can come to him with hearts overflowing with gratitude and thanksgiving. Jesus believed prayer works in scripture. He told his disciples over and over to keep praying. Sometimes we see the direct results of our prayer. But for many of us, we won't understand until we come face to face with Jesus in eternity. Often we can't trace how our prayers change things. But we can choose to trust in our loving Father even when it feels impossible to understand. Prayer isn't about getting what we want. It's about getting to know Jesus. When we pray, we are in the presence of our loving Father, learning more about who he is and who we are. Prayer always works because it always brings us into the life changing presence of Jesus. Contrary to what we may feel, prayer isn't pointless. I don't know why some prayers seem to be answered clearly and quickly while others seem to go unanswered. But I do know prayer always works because prayer always brings us closer to Jesus. And the answer is always Jesus. In your despair, go to Jesus. In your gratitude, go to Jesus. In your anger, go to Jesus. Even when it feels like nothing is changing, go to Jesus. Prayer is the only thing that keeps us steady when we are drowning. Because Jesus is the only person who can hold us firm in the midst of, of the ground slipping beneath our feet. Prayer always quote, works because prayer always brings you into deeper intimacy with Jesus. This was written by Eliza Lada and that was beautiful. Yeah, I love the conclusion in that of, you know, acknowledging that prayer always works. It kind of goes back to what we were sort of saying where, you know, we come to the Lord with prayers and these things that we are earnestly asking for, we're seeking, we're knocking, and it may not happen in the way that we thought it would. Or maybe our expectancy with that time in prayer was God immediately answering it. And maybe he doesn't. But prayer always works because prayer always brings you into deeper intimacy with Jesus. And so prayer is always productive no matter what, no matter if it's an immediate answer by God or if he makes us wait or it doesn't happen. It's productive because we actually get to see sit in the presence of God, and we get to know Jesus more in those moments. I think that the times that I have come to the Lord in desperation with these prayers, it has brought me closer to him in a way, you know, where I still feel so comforted by the Lord in those times where I'm just so desperate. I'm so desperate and I'm so vulnerable. I'm so raw and vulnerable. I feel naked. You know, spiritually, it's like it is vulnerable, very vulnerable. To come to the Lord like that and to feel his presence and to feel his love and his comfort, it's just going to actually bring you closer to Him. It is coming to the feet of Jesus. And being honest about how we're feeling about things is going to bring us closer to Him. It's just going to make our relationship tighter with Him. Rather than feeling like these are things that you have to do on your own, that could be prayer, but that could just be like, hey, God, I'm going through this. Or, hey, God, this is how I feel. I'm mad at you because I know. Know that you have the power to do this thing and you're not doing it, just bringing those things to Him. And instead of being fearful that he's not going to accept that and he's going to say, I'm sorry, that's disrespectful. Don't ever come to me with these emotions ever again. Instead of feeling that way and being like, you know what? I'm just going to be honest and say, this is how I feel. Believe it or not, at the least of the least of the least, in that situation, you're actually just going to leave that room, leave that situation, leave that moment being closer to Jesus than you were before you entered that moment with Him. And it's crazy that just in a moment that can happen where you can actually become closer to Jesus in intimacy after having a moment like that with him and coming into prayer with him that way. If you're praying and nothing seems to be happening, it's important to remember that prayer is not a magic formula to instantly get what you want, but rather a way to communicate with God. Sometimes the answer might be no, wait, or God has a different plan, meaning the desired outcome might not materialize as you expect even if you continue praying. It's crucial to maintain faith, examine your motives, and trust in God's timing and wisdom. I also think that, I mean, this might be kind of cliche, and it's probably something a lot of us Christians have already felt and heard. Before is like, you never know what the Lord is doing behind closed doors. You know, like, there's just so much that we don't see see in the spiritual and in the physical that God could be doing that we just are physically not in front of. We. We don't see it happening. We don't. We don't know that it's happening. And so during the times of silence where you feel like God is just being really quiet about a certain prayer, we have no idea all the trillions and millions and thousands of things that God could be doing behind the scenes in the background that we're just simply not seeing. And so just because we don't see it doesn't mean that it's not real. Doesn't mean that it's not happening. That goes for God himself. Like, just because we physically can't see him standing in front of us doesn't mean that he's not real. And so I think that that also comes very hand in hand with the way that he works. This invisible God. If we can't physically see him, do we still have faith that he exists? Yes, because we've seen the effects that he's had in our life. There's this analogy that I've heard that God is like the wind, where it's like, you know that the wind exists. Can you see it? No, but you can see the effects that the wind has around you. That's how you know that it does exist. You can feel it. You can feel the wind. You can see how the wind makes the trees, leaves, you know, ruffle. And like, you see the clouds moving in the sky. It's like, yes, wind exists and we see the effects and we feel wind, but we don't see a physical wind. You know what I mean? That's how God is. Where it's like, okay, we don't see God physically, but we do know that he exists because we see. See the effects that he has on our life. And then also we feel Him. He's very. We do feel Him. And I think that if that's the type of God that we serve, it shouldn't shock us that that's also the way that he moves, where we may not see the way that he moves, but it doesn't mean that it's not real. It doesn't mean that it's not happening. Yeah, I just think that it could even come down to, like. I was having a conversation with a friend of mine who struggles with something, and she was telling me about how she was talking to someone else about the struggle that she has, this mental struggle that she has. And this other person was totally invalidating the thing that she struggles with because they had never experienced it before. And I just think that that is, like, kind of also an example of, like, just because we haven't felt it, just because we haven't seen it doesn't mean that it doesn't exist. Just because she's over here feeling this thing and you're over there and you've never felt it or seen it doesn't mean that this thing isn't real over here. You know what I mean? That's also the way that God moves is like, just because we don't see it or we haven't physically experienced it yet doesn't mean he's not working and he's not doing things to allow that thing to happen. And maybe it's not an immediate answered prayer by God because there are a lot of moving parts that need to happen first. And I will just say I'm going to testify to this, too. So I'm going back to the story that I led with, with this thing that I've been pleading to the Lord about. And that's same day that I was, like, really, really desperately, like, on my face with the Lord about a few hours later that evening, God just showed me something that had to do with that very thing that I had been praying for. And I don't want to get into the details of it because it's near and dear to my heart and it's a very private thing. But I will say that God showed me something in that thing, and I felt it was him saying, I got this. And I share that with you. I know that's vague, but I share that with you because I do believe that even in the midst of us waiting for God to deliver something, he can still speak to us and say, hey, I hear you. I heard you. I got this. And I don't think that it's wrong to even be like, hey, God, I want to feel your comfort during this time of me just trusting you with this thing. I've put it on the altar, I've surrendered it. But I would really love to feel your companionship and your comfort and your reassurance. And you can ask him for maybe signs or words or Scripture. He also had led me to Scripture, and it just led me to literal tears. And I felt like that was another way of him being like, I got this. You know, he's not telling me when it's going to happen. He's not going to tell me how it's going to happen. But it's like in that same day, he's comforting me about the thing that I prayed for. And I said, okay, I know that God has a plan. Then, like, I know that he does. Just in that comfort alone, I feel like that can be a way for us to say, okay, you know what? I trust him because he's comforting me in this, which means that everything is gonna be okay. And he's got it. Like, he's got it. So, anyway, I just wanna speak life into you guys, and I wanna validate you that if there are things that you have been waiting for and there are things that you've been praying for over and over again, potentially it could even have been for years. I want you to know that the Lord hears you. He's taken note of every word, and he cares. He cares so much because he created you. And so with creating you, he had also prepared to care about every single thing that you come to him for. He's prepared to provide, and he's prepared to take care of you and answer your prayers. He's prepared for that. But all he's asking is for us to just trust him when maybe it doesn't happen the way that we assumed or thought or hoped for. But that's. That's all he's asking us to do. All he's saying is, I. I need you to just trust me. And so I'm here with you through it, y'. All. We are together and we are going to continue to have faith in our Heavenly Father. We will not become hopeless and we're not going to lose faith. We're going to continue to pray. Because that's also what Jesus literally told his disciples to do, was to continue to pray. And so if that's what Jesus is saying, we better believe that it's the truth, that we're just going to keep praying, we're going to keep having faith, and we're going to trust that our Heavenly Father has a really, really, really good plan for our lives. Actually, I'm going to read the very scripture that the Lord led me to in that moment of desperation. And I felt this. This gave me so much. This scripture gave me so much comfort, y'. All. It was Jeremiah 29:11. Okay, actually, let's start at Jeremiah 29:10. It says, this is what the Lord says. You will be in Babylon for 70 years, but then I will come and do for you all the good things I have promised. And I will bring you home again. For I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord. They are plans for good and not for disaster to give you a future and a hope. In those days when you pray, I will listen. If you look for me wholeheartedly, you will find me. I will be found by you, says the Lord. I will end your captivity and restore your fortunes. I will gather you out of the nations where I sent you and will bring you home again in your own land. Y' all the parts that got me was for I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord. They are plans for good and not for disaster. In those days when you pray, I will listen. He's listening. In these days when you're praying, he is listening. And so that encouraged me so much. It really did. And I hope that it encouraged y', all, too. But guys, I love you. Thank you for joining us for another week here at Christ With Coffee on Ice. And hey guys, can we do something cool this week? Can we show somebody how cool Jesus is? Can we walk more like him, talk more like him? We're going to walk in faith, like he did. He had so much faith in the Father. And Jesus prayed all the time, so we're also going to pray all the time. And we're not going to give up. God has never given up on us, and so we are not going to give up on Him. 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