A Prayer for When You Feel Empty

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Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 13 October 2021

⏱️ 6 minutes

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0:00.0	A prayer for when you feel empty, by Christine Brown, read by Liam Arden.
0:17.8	Lord you are my portion and my cup of blessing.
0:22.2	You hold my future, Psalm 165.
0:27.1	A dry, parched land stretched out before them.
0:31.0	Hagar and her son Ishmael had used up the last of the water given to them by Abraham
0:35.6	before he sent them away.
0:38.2	Genesis 2114.
0:41.4	Discouragement saw opportunity and came calling.
0:46.4	With no water in sight, Hagar knew they couldn't survive, so she set Ishmael under
0:51.4	a tree and walked away.
0:53.6	She couldn't watch her only son suffer this way, no water, no future, no hope.
0:59.6	The emptiness of the water skin reflected, the emptiness of her spirit.
1:06.8	Uncertainty and emptiness often walk hand in hand.
1:11.7	Our concern for the unknown causes us to try to fill our questioning hearts with answers.
1:17.8	We try to find solutions because we long to fill the void with something that will satisfy.
1:24.4	And the more we try in our own strength to fill the void, the emptier we become.
1:32.6	Only one thing will fill the emptiness when life's battles leave us depleted.
1:40.6	Lord you are my portion and my cup of blessing.
1:45.5	You hold my future, Psalm 165.
1:51.7	Hagar had forgotten God's promise to fill her cup with abundant blessings.
1:56.6	Ishmael would have a future greater than anything Hagar herself could have planned.
2:02.3	But she needed to trust God to be the portion, to fill the emptiness with the fullness of
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