Hi, and welcome to the Five Word Prayers Daily, a five day a week daily devotional where we share the word, prayers, and our heart.

I'm Lisa Whittle, and I welcome you to just five minutes with me, which I trust and pray will be five minutes well spent.

Well, today is the continuing conversation about receiving. He just couldn't possibly get it all in yesterday.

And I hope you're getting a glimpse

into why it's important to see receiving as something to pay attention to and pray about in your

life if this is something like so many of us that you struggle with. Maybe you don't think you

struggle with it, but after today, you just might change your mind. What our receiving refusers are,

and bottom line, what it's really about.

I hope you listen to yesterday's show about why the verse it's better to give than to receive doesn't mean we aren't also supposed to receive, and some of the things, including the most

important thing we will want to receive. But today I want to talk about some of the things, including the most important thing we will want

to receive. But today I want to talk about some of those receiving refusers, I call them,

so we can take a real look at how our refusal to receive might be manifesting in subtle ways in

our life that we haven't even really thought about up until now, possibly. One receiving

refuser is compliments. How are you with

receiving a compliment? Can you accept one well or do you excuse it, deflect from it or try to

downplay it or get out of it all together? A lot of us feel awkward when a compliment comes our

way, but some of us are just

literally feel almost nauseated by a compliment. What about the receiving refuser of a gift? How do you do

when someone wants to give you a gift? Do you happily accept it without thought to what they might

possibly have to gain from it, what their angle is,

or what they may be trying to get from you? Or do you feel put out in some way because you feel like,

oh no, now I'm going to owe them a gift. So you almost wish they'd never given you anything.

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