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wherever you listen to podcasts. Here's this week's Wednesday's Word podcast. I'm Dalton, a member of the Paul Trip

Ministries team. Join me each week as I read aloud Paul's popular Wednesday's

Word devotional. You can subscribe to our email list to receive this devotional straight to your

inbox each week, or you can read online at paultrip.com slash Wednesday or on Facebook, Instagram,

and the Paul Trip app. This week, Paul wants to help us pray more God-glorifying prayers instead of me-centered

prayers. Here's this week's Wednesday's Word.

This Wednesday's Word is the final devotional adapted from my new book, Sunday Matters,

52 devotionals to prepare your heart for church.

Next week, we'll start a four-week series on Advent, but since we're recovering from

the onslaught of Black Friday and Cyber Monday promotions, it's probably appropriate

to consider the gospel and its everyday application

to Christmas gifts a week early. A very wealthy man once invited me to dinner at a fancy restaurant.

During the meal, he shared something heartbreaking. I don't know who my real friends are. Because I'm

rich, I don't know if people want to be around me because they like me and care about me,

or because they think I can do things for them.

I live wondering all the time if people want me or if they just want my wallet.

I've thought about that conversation many times.

First, it convicted me horizontally to see people as people,

not by their role in my life, what they

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