Hello, hello and good morning. Welcome to the Bridgetown Daily for Monday, July 27th.

My name is Jaron and I leave the youth here at Bridgetown.

I want to begin this daily this morning by sharing a bit about how hard these past few

weeks have been for me, specifically in my life of prayer. Considering our current COVID

circumstances, I had a wonderful and safe birthday week to start off July and was met

with some of the deepest and most encouraging gifts and words of prophecy from the people

that matter so much to me. And following that week, my spiritual and mental health got

hit by what I can only describe as straight up spiritual warfare. I mean, in a nutshell,

it felt like the enemy was working super hard to try and disprove and invalidate all

of the love and belonging and prophecy I had just experienced the week prior. Not to mention

I had been engaging in some really, really difficult conversations and outright arguments

on the topic of theology, race and politics, which had just about pushed me over the edge

of emitterment, if I can be completely honest. And thinking back, I saw my prayer life

kind of evolve in a cyclical form. It started with a lot of why God laments and petitions

concerning our times and even specifically a lot of wounds I'm currently working through.

And that went to a lot of how God prayers, like how could you let this happen, God, or

show me how God teach me how? How are you speaking to me to our church and things of that

nature? And this evolved into a lot of tell me prayers. Tell me, God, whose side are you

on? Tell me, Jesus, where is your work happening? Because so many different voices are claiming

that they are a part of your work and claiming that your work should look like this way or

that way. And even now, I'm just recalling the very freeing words from my therapist that

unfortunately I didn't listen to, but were really wise at the moment. He said, in the

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