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

A prayer to release the idea that I can do it all on my own.

By Alicia Headley, read by Leah Martin.

And he said to me, my grace is sufficient for you, for my strength is made perfect in your weakness.

2 Corinthians 12 and 9.

We live in a culture where the word itself is often praised.

We see it all over social media, highlighted in books and articles, and it's been coined this generation's slogan.

It's emphasized by motivational speakers and influencers.

We hear words such as self-help, self-care, self-sufficiency as a common theme.

These words at first can seem empowering, but they lead to life-based solely around ourselves, in our own strength, and in our own sufficiency.

It feeds us to lie that we only need ourselves, and we can do it all by ourselves.

Therefore, we push God out.

Oftentimes, we may experience burnout or exhaustion trying to depend only on ourselves.

When we depend daily on ourselves, it can lead to us daily denying our need for Jesus.

Today's verse is talking about the opposite of self-sufficiency.

As a Christian, the more time we spend with the Lord to understand the gospel, the more we begin to understand our great need for a Savior.

It's in that moment when we find ourselves depleted by our efforts to save ourselves, that we realize our true need for God.

Today's passage talks about how God is enough, and that He is more than enough.

It's in our weakness, our exhaustion, and our own efforts that we realize that His strength is made perfect in our weakness.

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