Hi, friend, you're listening to the Thursday replay on the Jesus Over Everything show with Lisa Whittle.

I hope you enjoy this re-air of one of our Five Word Prayers Daily devotional shows we aired last year.

Hi, and welcome to the Five Word Prayers Daily, a five-day-a-week daily devotional where we share the word, prayers, in our heart.

I'm Lisa Whittle, and I welcome you to just five

minutes with me, which I trust and pray will be five minutes well spent. The struggle is real.

Man, we hear that phrase a lot, don't we? About a lot of things, really. Well, the struggle is real

in many areas of life for so many of us. We can't cover all of them on the show this week, but I want to tackle a few things we haven't talked about yet in the over 100 shows we've already done on here. Can you even believe it? Yeah, we've

covered some serious ground for sure. Today's topic is one I'm very passionate about and also

wanting to be even more passionate about, so I'm asking God to do a work in me about it through

this show, talking race relations. In the near future, I God to do a work in me about it through this show, talking race relations.

In the near future, I want to dedicate a whole series to this and get some of my friends on here to help me out.

But for today, I want to talk about God helping us in this area as we talk openly today about our prejudice and assumption and really sin in this area of life. It's important,

so let's tackle it head on. I'm a white woman, obviously, and I come into this knowing

my views are skewed by my life and experience as such, which I cannot undo or regret or apologize for.

But I also want to acknowledge that in that, I see things from my lens.

I think that's one of the most basic but powerful things we as people need to do is even first

acknowledge that our views come from our experiences.

It's amazing to me how many people want to be so stubborn and sensitive not to admit this.

We speak, what we live, and what we know.

It colors us.

It biases us.

If our parents held opinions and they spoke them freely, or even if we overheard them a lot, it influenced us.

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