Good morning, everyone, and welcome back to the Messy Masterpiece Podcast, which had

in Tori. Happy Tuesday. Happy Tuesday. Happy Tuesday, or whatever day you're listening

to this podcast on, we're just thankful that you're here. Anything else? No. Let's just jump

on in. Let's just jump on in. Y'all today, we are reading the Thrive Bible again

this devotional is titled Faithful and Prayer, and the verse is Second Thessalonians 111,

and it says, So we keep on praying for you, asking our God to enable you to live a life worthy

of his call. May he give you the power to accomplish all the good things your faith prompts you to do.

The love letter from God says, beloved child, you have my full attention when you call my name.

Don't ever underestimate the power of your prayers. I don't always answer the way you want me to,

but your prayers put a mighty hand to work. When you pray, you connect your heart to mine. Your words

spoken in someone's dark hour, bring my light. When you pray for protection, I send my angels.

When you pray for comfort, my spirit comes to hold you. One day when you're living an eternity,

you will see how your prayers affected and protected many lives. Don't stop praying,

because I am here with open ears. Love your heavenly Father. The reflection says,

God doesn't ask us to pray over and over again so he can hear us. He asks us to keep praying so we

can keep believing. Then when God answers, we will not forget his faithfulness. God loves when we

come to him in prayer and connect our hearts to his. The treasure of truth says, it's not our words

that open God's heart. It's our hearts that open his ears. Yeah, I love that. That's so

convicting to me. In what way? Well, first off, let me apologize. If you guys could hear a dog

barking. Oh, yeah. I guess, you know, it's, it's 9 p.m. and our neighbors are on a walk.

The dogs are barking and there's like a big old truck that keeps driving by and we're like,

what is happening right now? I'm like, come on now. Anyway, okay. So I was saying it's

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