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Devotional podcast. Now, here's Pamela to get you fired up for all God has available for you today.

Well, good morning, beautiful. Welcome to a brand new day of life. Happy Monday, my friends. New day and new week, the final couple days of September 2025. What a blessing it is to get to be alive. And I am just so thankful that you've invited me into your day of life. Let's get it started right. The title of today's

episode of the Big Life devotional podcast is Abun Dwashmaya. I probably butchered it, but I'm trying my best.

Abun Dwashmaya, does anybody know what that means or where that comes from? Well, you're going to learn in a minute.

Did you know we are told to pray to God and refer to him as our daddy, our papa? That's not disrespectful.

That's not irreverent.

It's personal.

God actually wants to be more than just your creator, more than just the director of your life and supreme authority.

He wants to be in a close and special relationship

with you, a relationship of deep affection that offers you the ultimate security.

One day, a crowd followed Jesus up to a mountainside, and he sat down to teach them. He taught them how to

handle the real issues of life, and it was here that Jesus taught them and ultimately us how to pray.

He gives us the example of how to talk to God. And we now call it the Lord's

prayer. Maybe you even have it memorized. Matthew chapter 6 verse 9, Jesus begins by saying,

pray like this. Our father who art in heaven.

Our father in heaven.

In Aramaic, the language Jesus used when teaching this prayer, it is abuun dwash maya.

No, d'b, yeah. Yeah. is ab wound dwash maya no yeah

I can't get it right

ab wound

dwash maya

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