Hello, my friends, and happy New Year's Eve. Welcome to another pray together episode.

Thanks for joining me. I want us to just be reminded as we move into our time of prayer today

that our God is compassionate and gracious, full of mercy and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness.

That is how he described himself to Moses back in the Old Testament

when Moses first encountered him on Mount Sinai. Friends, we have a God who cares for our very needs. He

wants us to be bringing our requests to him. And so I want to encourage you to join with me in faith

that these are requests that our Lord cares about and wants to answer. Let's pray together. We have a handful of requests from brothers and sisters across the world who are asking us to lift them up to the Father.

Lord, we begin this morning just by acknowledging how good and how gracious you are. We appreciate that you have

revealed yourself to us. You've shown us in your word the truth about how you feel toward us and your

intention toward us. And so God, we rest in that and we rely on that as we pray here together today.

We have a handful of requests from brothers and sisters around the

world. We're going to begin with Dave, Lord, who is saying his life right now is experiencing a lot of

anxiety and stress. And Lord, I understand with the busy pace of life most people live in, this is true

for many of us. And Lord, I ask that you would give Dave a deeper sense of

your presence, first off, that an encounter with you will transform his heart and his mind

and put him in a place of rest. You tell us to be still and to know that you are God. And what

you're saying in that statement, at least in part, is it when we will take

the time to stop and to still our hearts and quiet our minds and recognize who you are,

that you are God, that we will realize you have everything under control. That includes the

things that we're anxious about, the things that

are points of stress in our lives. You have it under perfect and complete control. And our

pressures that we feel, though very real from an earthly perspective, are many times fabricated

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