April 11 – When Your Heart Feels Heavy

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Welcome to Bible Chat, where we
have devotional conversations

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rooted in Scripture and relevant
for today, April 11th.

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When your heart feels heavy,
there are some weights you

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cannot explain easily.
You try to smile, answer

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messages, finish your work, and
act normal, but deep down your

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heart feels tired.
Maybe it is disappointment,

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anxiety, loneliness, pressure,
grief, or just the kind of

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sadness that does not have neat
words.

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Proverbs chapter 14 verses 10:50
says the heart knows its own

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bitterness and no stranger
shares its joy.

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That means God understands
something important about us.

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There are parts of your inner
life that other people may never

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fully see, but the fact that
others do not fully understand

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does not mean you are alone.
Psalm 42, verse 11 speaks right

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into that heaviness.
Why are you cast down, Oh my

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soul, and why are you in turmoil
within me?

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Hope in God.
I love that because it is

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honest.
The writer does not pretend to

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feel strong.
He talks to his own soul in the

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middle of the struggle.
He names the turmoil, but he

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does not let despair have the
final word.

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He tells his heart where to
look.

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Hope in God Then Jesus says in
Mark Chapter 11 verse 24,

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whatever you ask in prayer,
believe that you have received

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it and it will be yours.
That is not a blank check for

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selfish wishes.
It is an invitation to trust

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that God hears you when you
pray.

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Your heavy heart is not a burden
he is tired of carrying.

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He welcomes it.
He listens, he cares.

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So today, do not hide your pain
from God.

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Bring him what feels tangled and
messy.

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Bring Him the tears you have not
cried yet, the questions you

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cannot answer, the fear you do
not want to admit.

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He sees you completely and loves
you fully.

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A heavy heart can still hope, A
hurting soul can still pray, and

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God is still near.
Let’s pray.

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Heavenly Father, thank you for
seeing the parts of my heart

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that no one else fully
understands.

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When I feel heavy, tired, or
overwhelmed, help me bring

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everything to You in prayer.
Teach my soul to hope in You

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even before I see things change.
Fill me with peace, strength and

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the quiet confidence that you
are near and you care in Jesus

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name, Amen.
What if you could rise up and

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Proverbs chapter 14 verses 10 to

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11 World English Bible.
The heart knows its own

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bitterness and joy.
He will not share these with a

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stranger.
The House of the wicked will be

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overthrown, but the tent of the
upright will flourish.

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Psalm chapter 42.
World English Bible for the

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chief musician.
A contemplation by the sons of

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Korra.
As the deer pants for the water

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brooks, so my soul pants after
you God.

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My soul thirsts for God, for the
living God.

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When shall I come and appear
before God?

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My tears have been my food day
and night, while they

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continually ask me, Where is
your God?

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These things I remember and pour
out my soul within me.

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How I used to go with the crowd
and LED them to God’s house with

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the voice of joy and praise.
A multitude keeping a holy day.

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Why are you in despair, my soul?
Why are you disturbed within me?

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Hope in God, for I shall still
praise Him for the saving help

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of His presence.
My God, my soul is in despair

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within me.
Therefore I remember you from

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the land of the Jordan, the
heights of Herman, from the hill

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Mizar.
Deep calls to deep at the noise

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of your waterfalls, all your
waves and your billows have

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swept over me.
Yahweh will command his loving

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kindness in the daytime, In the
night his song shall be with me,

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a prayer to the God of my life.
I will ask God, my rock, why

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have you forgotten me?
Why do I go morning?

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Because of the oppression of the
enemy, as with a sword in my

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bones.
My adversaries reproach me,

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while they continually ask me,
where is your God?

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Why are you in despair, my soul?
Why are you disturbed within me?

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Hope in God, for I shall still
praise him the saving help of my

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countenance and my God.
Mark Chapter 11 World English

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Bible When they came near to
Jerusalem, to Beth’s fidge and

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Bethany at the Mount of Olives,
he sent two of his disciples and

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said to them, Go your way into
the village that is opposite

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you.
Immediately as you enter into it

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you will find a young donkey
tied on which no one is SAT.

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Untie him and bring him.
If anyone asks you why are you

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doing this, say the Lord needs
him and immediately he will send

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him back here.
They went away and found a young

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donkey tied at the door outside
in the open St. and they united

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him.
Some of those who stood there

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asked them what are you doing
untying the young donkey?

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They said to them just as Jesus
had said, and they let them go.

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They brought the young donkey to
Jesus and threw their garments

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on it, and Jesus sat on it.
Many spread their garments on

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the way, and others were cutting
down branches from the trees and

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spreading them on the road.
Those who went in front and

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those who followed cried out
Hosanna.

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Blessed is he who comes in the
name of the Lord.

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Blessed is the Kingdom of our
Father David that is coming in

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the name of the Lord.
Hosanna in the highest Jesus

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entered into the temple in
Jerusalem.

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When he had looked around at
everything, it being now

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evening, he went out to Bethany
with the 12.

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The next day when they had come
out from Bethany, he was hungry.

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Seeing a fig tree afar off
having leaves, he came to see if

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perhaps he might find anything
on it.

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When he came to it, he found
nothing but leaves, for it was

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not the season for figs.
Jesus told it, May no one ever

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eat fruit from you again.
And his disciples heard it.

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They came to Jerusalem, and
Jesus entered into the temple

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and began to throw out those who
sold and those who bought in the

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temple and overthrew the money
changers, tables and the seats

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of those who sold the doves.
He would not allow anyone to

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carry a container through the
temple.

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He taught, saying to them, Isn’t
it written, My house will be

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called a House of prayer for all
the nations, But you have made

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it a den of robbers.
The chief priests and the

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scribes heard it and sought how
they might destroy him, for they

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feared him, because all the
multitude was astonished at his

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teaching.
When evening came, he went out

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of the city.
As they passed by in the

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morning, they saw the fig tree
withered away from the roots.

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Peter, remembering, said to him,
Rabbi, look, the fig tree which

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you curse it has withered away.
Jesus answered them, Have faith

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in God.
For most certainly I tell you,

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whoever may tell this mountain
be taken up and cast into the

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sea, and doesn’t doubt in his
heart, but believes that what he

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says is happening, he shall have
whatever he says.

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Therefore I tell you all things,
whatever you pray and ask for,

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believe that you have received
them, and you shall have them.

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Whenever you stand praying.
Forgive if you have anything

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against anyone, so that your
Father who is in heaven may also

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forgive you your transgressions.
But if you do not forgive,

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neither will your Father in
heaven forgive your

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transgressions.
They came again to Jerusalem,

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and as he was walking in the
temple, the chief priests, the

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scribes and the elders came to
him, and they began saying to

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him, By what authority do you do
these things?

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Or who gave you this authority
to do these things?

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Jesus said to them, I will ask
you one question, answer me and

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I will tell you by what
authority I do these things.

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The baptism of John, was it from
heaven or from men?

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Answer me.
They reason with themselves

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saying, if we should say from
heaven, he will say, why then

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did you not believe him?
If we should say from men?

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They feared the people for all
hailed John to really be a

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prophet.
They answered Jesus, we don’t

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know.
Jesus said to them, Neither will

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I tell you by what authority I
do these things.

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