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Thank you for listening to Your Daily Prayer, a podcast dedicated to helping you find the words you need to connect with your father in heaven.

No matter what's going on in your life today, you can trust that God wants to hear from you.

Right after this short word from our sponsor, we'll pray through today's prayer together.

A prayer for when your future feels unknown by Mali Law, read by Lea Martin.

For I know the plans I have for you to share with you.

A prayer for when your future feels unknown by Mali Law, read by Lea Martin.

For I know the plans I have for you to clear the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future, Jeremiah 29-11.

Time is just a construct. We all view it in terms of past, present and future.

We've already lived the past. Some past memories leave us with such pleasant feelings that we wish to return to those simpler times, but some are past traumas that haunt us as we strive to see healing in the present.

We all live in the present and the majority of the time the present feels hideous and mundane.

We may wake up and have coffee, work a standard nine to five, make sure our families fed and ready for their day, do it all over again five days a week.

This is why we plan vacations, daydream about what our futures might hold, anything to escape our provincial lives.

The present may not just be boring, it might be that we're facing hard times, times of suffering.

This is exactly when the Lord speaks of the future in Scripture, when His people are in turmoil and have little hope that life will ever look different.

When they finally left their long captivity as slaves in Egypt, God promised them that they would have a home, a land, flowing with milk and honey.

God reiterates His promise after their disobedience and subsequent consequence of wandering in the desert for forty years.

Although their present was the desert, God kept and fulfilled His promise for their future.

He did the same during their exile in Babylon. This is where we get the famous verse in Jeremiah.

And again, as the Roman Empire set up their rule in Jerusalem, the Jews looked forward to the long awaited Messiah.

Although they refused to see, or were blinded by the promised future before them, the Messiah came. He came to save the world.

We know that God is with us and with our futures. It can be really easy to live in a future hope, so much so that we can miss the present, our once future.

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