Hey everyone, Kelly Givens here. I want you to think about a little word with some big

implications. Stress. I don't have to say much more for you to start thinking about all the ways your life feels stressful and overwhelming.

In fact, I bet one of the reasons you listen to your daily prayer is because it's a calming way to connect with God amidst the stress of life.

If that's true, then I want to recommend our latest podcast to you.

Breathe, the Stress Less Podcast.

Our host Bonnie Gray guides us through the effects of stress and gives us scripture-backed methods

of restoring calm, reducing overwhelm, and deepening our intimacy with God.

You can find Breathe a stress-less podcast on Life Audio.com

or by searching your favorite podcast app.

We'll also have a link in the show notes. Check it out and

let us know what you think. A prayer for rejection, written by Lisa Turchurst and read by Kelly Givens.

The righteous person may have many troubles, but the Lord delivers him from them all.

Psalm 3419.

The enemy loves to take our rejection and twist it into a raw, irrational fear that God really doesn't have a good plan for us.

This fear is a corrupting companion.

It replaces the truths we've trusted with hopeless lies.

Satan knows what consumes us, controls us.

Therefore, the more consumed we are with rejection, the more he can control our emotions, our thinking, and our actions.

So what's a broken-hearted person to do? We must take back control from something or someone that was never

meant to have it and declare God as Lord. To help us see how we can practice this when the worries of rejection try to control us,

here are three things to remember and proclaim. First, one rejection is not a projection of future failures.

It's good to acknowledge the hurt,

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