January 11 – When It Feels Like No One Sees

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Welcome to Bible Chat, where we
have devotional conversations

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rooted in scripture and relevant
for today, January 11th, when it

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feels like no one sees.
Have you ever felt invisible?

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Like you’re doing your best,
trying to hold it together,

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carrying weight that no one else
notices, and the silence makes

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it heavier?
Maybe you’re hurting quietly,

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praying quietly, showing up
quietly, and wondering if any of

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it even matters.
When no one checks in, no one

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defends you, and no one seems to
understand, it’s easy to feel

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forgotten.
Psalm 6 gives words to that kind

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of pain.
David says in verse 6, I am

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weary with my moaning Every
night.

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I flood my bed with tears.
I drench my couch with my

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weeping.
That’s raw.

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That’s not polished faith.
That’s honest anguish.

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David isn’t pretending to be
strong.

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He’s exhausted, overwhelmed, and
emotionally spent, and yet he

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brings it all to God.
Not cleaned up, not filtered,

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just real.
That alone reminds us that God

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isn’t scared of your tears or
tired of your prayers.

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He sees what no one else sees.
Then in Matthew chapter 8, we

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meet a Roman centurion, an
outsider, someone with authority

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yet marked by humility.
He comes to Jesus not for

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himself, but for his servant,
and he says something

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incredible.
Lord, I am not worthy to have

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you come under my roof, but only
say the Word and my servant will

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be healed.
He believed that one word from

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Jesus was enough.
No performance, no long

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explanation, just faith.
And Jesus responds.

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Healing follows even at a
distance, even without a crowd

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watching.
And tucked into Proverbs chapter

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3, verse 30 is a quiet but
powerful reminder.

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Do not contend with a man for no
reason when he has done you no

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harm.
When we feel unseen or

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misunderstood, it’s tempting to
lash out, to start arguments,

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stir drama, or take our
frustration out on people who

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aren’t the real issue.
But God calls us higher.

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He calls us to trust that he
sees the full picture even when

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others don’t.
Here’s the truth.

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God sees your silent tears.
He hears the prayers you can

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barely get out.
He notices when you choose peace

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instead of retaliation, faith
instead of bitterness, humility

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instead of pride.
And just like with the

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centurion, one word from Jesus
can shift everything.

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Your situation, your heart, your
hope.

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You are not invisible to God,
not for a moment.

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Let’s pray.
Heavenly Father, thank you for

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seeing me when I feel unseen and
unheard.

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Thank you for collecting every
tear and listening to every

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quiet prayer.
Help me bring my pain to you

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honestly, without fear or shame.
Give me faith like the

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Centurion, to believe that one
word from you can bring healing

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and change.
And when I’m tempted to react

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out of hurt or frustration, help
me choose peace.

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Remind me that you see it all
and you are at work, even when I

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can’t tell.
In Jesus name, Amen.

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more is actually God calling you

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deeper?
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Seek teaches you how to pursue

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God with passion and
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Savor trains your heart to
recognize and enjoy His presence

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in every season.
SEE opens your spiritual eyes to

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God’s power, glory, and beauty
at work in your life.

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Satisfy leads your soul into
fullness, strength, and deep

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contentment in Him alone.
Sing ignites joy, gratitude, and

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worship that rises naturally
from intimacy with God.

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distractions try to pull you
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Now I invite you to spend time
with God in today’s three-year

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Bible reading plan.
Proverbs chapter 3 verses 27 to

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30 World English Bible.
Don’t withhold good from those

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to whom it is due, when it is in
the power of your hand to do it.

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Don’t say to your neighbor, go
and come again tomorrow.

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I will give it to you when you
have it by you.

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Don’t devise evil against your
neighbor, since he dwells

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securely by you.
Don’t strive with a man without

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’cause if he has done you no
harm.

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Psalm chapter 6, World English
Bible for the chief musician on

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stringed instruments upon the 8
stringed lyre, a Psalm by David.

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Yahweh.
Don’t rebuke me in your anger,

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neither discipline me in your
wrath.

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Have mercy on me Yahweh, for I
am faint.

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Yahweh, heal me, for my bones
are troubled.

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My soul is also in great
anguish, but you Yahweh, how

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long return Yahweh, deliver my
soul and save me for your loving

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kindness sake.
For in death there is no memory

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of you in she all who shall give
you thanks.

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I am weary with my groaning
every night I flood my bed, I

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drenched my couch with my tears.
My eye waste away because of

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grief.
It grows old because of all my

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adversaries.
Depart from me, all you workers

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of iniquity.
For Yahweh has heard the voice

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of my weeping.
Yahweh has heard my

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supplication.
Yahweh accepts my prayer.

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May all my enemies be ashamed
and dismayed.

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They shall turn back.
They shall be disgraced

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suddenly.
Matthew Chapter 8 World English

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Bible When he came down from the
mountain, great multitudes

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followed him.
Behold, A leper came to him and

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worshipped him, saying, Lord, if
you want to, you can make me

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clean.
Jesus stretched out his hand and

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touched him, saying, I want to
be made clean.

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Immediately his leprosy was
cleansed.

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Jesus said to him, See that you
tell nobody, but go show

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yourself to the priest and offer
the gift that Moses commanded as

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a testimony to them.
When he came into Capernaum, A

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centurion came to him asking him
for help, saying, Lord, my

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servant lies in the house.
Paralyzed, grievously tormented,

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Jesus said to him, I will come
and heal him.

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The centurion answered, Lord,
I’m not worthy for you to come

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under my roof.
Just say the word and my servant

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will be healed.
For I am also a man under

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authority, having under myself
soldiers.

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I tell this one go, and he goes
and tell another come, and he

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comes and tell my servant do
this and he does it.

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When Jesus heard it, he
marvelled and said to those who

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followed, Most certainly I tell
you, I haven’t found so great a

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faith, not even in Israel.
I tell you that many will come

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from the east and the West, and
we’ll sit down with Abraham,

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Isaac, and Jacob in the Kingdom
of heaven.

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But the children of the Kingdom
will be thrown out into the

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outer darkness.
There will be weeping and

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gnashing of teeth.
Jesus said to the centurion, Go

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your way, let it be done for
you.

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As you have believed.
His servant was healed in that

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hour.
When Jesus came into Peter’s

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house, he saw his wife’s mother
lying sick with a fever.

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He touched her hand and the
fever left her, so she got up

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and served him.
When evening came, they brought

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to him many possessed with
demons.

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He cast out the spirits with a
word and healed all who were

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sick, that it might be
fulfilled, which was spoken

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through Isaiah the prophet,
saying, He took our infirmities

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and bore our diseases.
Now when Jesus saw great

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multitudes around him, he gave
the order to depart to the other

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side.
A scribe came and said to him,

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Teacher, I will follow you
wherever you go.

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Jesus said to him, The foxes
have holes and the birds of the

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sky have nests, but the Son of
Man has nowhere to lay his head.

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Another of his disciples said to
him, Lord, allow me first to go

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and bury my father.
But Jesus said to him, Follow

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me, and leave the dead, to bury
their own dead.

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When he got into a boat, his
disciples followed him.

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Behold, a violent storm came up
on the sea, so much that the

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boat was covered with the waves,
but he was asleep.

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The disciples came to him and
woke him up, saying, Save us,

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Lord, we are dying.
He said to them, Why are you

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fearful, O you of little faith?
Then he got up, rebuked the wind

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and the sea, and there was a
great calm.

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The men marvelled, saying, What
kind of man is this, that even

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the wind and the sea obey him?
When he came to the other side

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into the country of the
Gergocenes, 2 people possessed

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by demons met him there, coming
out of the tombs exceedingly

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fierce, so that nobody could
pass that way.

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Behold, they cried out, saying,
What do we have to do with you,

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Jesus, Son of God?
Have you come here to torment us

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before the time?
Now there was a herd of many

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pigs feeding far away from them.
The demons begged him, saying,

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If you cast us out, permit us to
go away into the herd of pigs.

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He said to them, go.
They came out and went into the

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herd of pigs.
And behold, the whole herd of

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pigs rushed down the Cliff into
the sea and died in the water.

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Those who fed them fled and went
away into the city and told

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everything, including what
happened to those who were

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possessed with demons.
Behold all, the city came out to

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meet Jesus.
When they saw him, they begged

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that He would depart from their
borders.

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