Good morning everyone and welcome back to another mornings with the masters.

We're doing ourselves to the Lord daily with you.

Maybe still not here.

We're getting very, very close.

Thank you for your prayers.

What's kind of exciting is that you guys will probably be first to know

because it's a daily devo.

Anyways, we're picking back up with New Morning Mercies.

There's a link to it in the description if you guys want to fall along.

And this is a good one. I kind of pre-screened it a little bit. these there's a link to it in the description if you guys want to follow along.

And this is a good one.

I kind of pre-screened it a little bit.

And those first few paragraphs that I even read, I was like, oh my lord.

And so very, very excited about it.

It says this.

Prayer is abandoning my addiction to other glories and delighting in the one glory that is truly glorious, the glory of God. Sadly, prayer for many of us has been shrunk to an agenda that is little

bigger than asking God for stuff. It has become that spiritual place where we ask God to sign our personal wish lists.

For many, it is little more than a repeated cycle of requesting followed by waiting to see if

God in fact comes through. If he does, we celebrate his

faithfulness and love, but if he doesn't, we not only wonder if he cares, we are

also tempted to wonder if he's there. In this way, prayer often amounts to shopping at the

Trinitarian department store for things that you have told yourself you need

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