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Father, we begin acknowledging that Jesus is God and that he came to live on this earth and as a result he experienced exhaustion. God we know that he had to be physically fatigued.

Scripture tells us, emotionally fatigued, scripture tells us spiritually, just exhausted, God.

And we thank you Lord Jesus for continuing with your earthly ministry through the cross

where you paid for our sins and through the empty tomb where you

purchase for us new life and God we are thankful for men like Paul who writes the

letter to the Philippians that we have the privilege of studying though he's in

jail after having lived a very hard life,

30 years as a Christian, imprisoned, homeless, beaten, shipwrecked, left for dead, exhausted,

occasionally working a part-time job on the side. In addition to all of that, he

continues to press forward. So God, it is our hope today that you would send us the Holy

Spirit to enable and empower our lives to be marked by perseverance and

sanctification and continued learning and forward progress so that despite our

exhaustion it might be purposeful that you might do something good innocent through us.

So as we open the scriptures, we ask for your Holy Spirit that we may become like your son and whose name we pray.

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