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

The struggle is real. Man, we hear that phrase a lot, don't we? About a lot of things, really. Well, the struggle is real in many areas of life for so many of us. We can cover all

of them on the show this week, but I want to tackle a few things we haven't talked about yet in

the over 100 shows we've already done on here. Can you even believe it? Yeah, we've covered some

serious ground for sure. Today's topic is one I'm very passionate about and also wanting to be

even more passionate about,

so I'm asking God to do a work in me about it through this show, talking race relations.

In the near future, I want to dedicate a whole series to this and get some of my friends on here

to help me out. But for today, I want to talk about God helping us in this area as we talk openly today about our prejudice

and assumption and really sin in this area of life. It's important, so let's tackle it head on.

I'm a white woman, obviously, and I come into this knowing my views are skewed by my life

and experience as such, which I cannot undo or regret or apologize for.

But I also want to acknowledge that in that, I see things from my lens.

I think that's one of the most basic but powerful things we as people need to do is

even first acknowledge that our views

come from our experiences.

It's amazing to me how many people want to be so stubborn and sensitive not to admit this.

We speak, what we live, and what we know.

It colors us.

It biases us.

If our parents held opinions and they spoke them freely or even if we overheard them a lot, it influenced us. It biases us. If our parents held opinions and they spoke them freely or even if we

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