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. So we're talking boundaries in our last week

of the growing up moving on month on the daily, and I loved our discussion yesterday on capacity and how

that's really what it's about when we're talking about room in our heart versus room in the car.

If you don't know what in the world I'm talking about, listen to yesterday's show. I think

it'll be worth your time. But today I want to come at things from a little bit different

angle in our boundaries week because there's a difference

between putting up walls and setting boundaries and I'm not sure we always know what that is.

Stay with me. I'll be right back.

So if you live long enough, it's likely you have built a wall up towards something, towards someone, around

yourself, around your heart, and you may have either worked on breaking that down with the help of

Jesus, or maybe you haven't, and that wall still exists today. I know in my life, I've had walls up

at times in all of these categories towards specific people or in circumcertainstances.

And in either case, it's taken Jesus to break those walls down.

Some I'm still working on, to be honest.

Because we're human and we get defensive.

We protect ourselves as a human instinct when we get hurt or when we feel violated in some way.

And walls keep us from others and make us feel like

the barrier is to our benefit, as if in some way it will keep hard things at bay. Sometimes in the

moment, it may actually do its job, but as we all know, walls don't come without a price. They make us

isolated. They make us isolated, actually,

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