Guided Prayer: Justice, Mercy, and Humility

Lay down the urge to earn your worth and breathe into a truer center. We invite you into a calm, spacious practice shaped by Micah 6:8—do justice, love mercy, walk humbly—so these ancient words move from page to pulse. This guided time blends gentle breathwork, grounding in the body, and a living reframing of justice, mercy, and humility as a daily rhythm rather than a religious burden.

We begin by naming belovedness as your starting point: you are seen, loved, and known before you lift a finger. From there, the breath slows and the feet find the floor—the same earth that has carried prophets, saints, and Jesus—so your own life can settle into continuity with a larger story. Justice emerges as the steady work of setting things right, mercy shows up as strength expressed in gentleness, and humility becomes a shared walk with God rather than self-shrinkage. Each image is simple enough to hold and strong enough to carry into your next conversation, task, or act of care.

Across the meditation, we turn Micah’s words into prayer, letting them repeat until they re-pattern the heart: do justice, love mercy, walk humbly. You’ll return to the room with steadier breath and a quiet courage to live what you received—mercy shaping your words, justice flowing through your hands, humility pacing your steps. If this practice helped you reset your rhythm and reimagine spiritual life as union that overflows into action, share it with a friend who needs peace today, subscribe for future meditations, and leave a review to help others find this space.

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Pastors Dennis and Heather Drake

Episode Transcript

SPEAKER_00 (00:03):
Welcome, beloved.
You are seen, you are loved, youare known.
Take a moment to center here,inviting all of the pieces of

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yourself, not as you think youshould be, but simply as you
are.
God has named you beloved beforeyou ever did a thing to earn it.
And as we center into this timeof prayer and stillness, let's

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remember together the invitationof the prophet Micah, chapter
six, verse eight.
What does the Lord require ofyou?
But to do justice, to lovemercy, and to walk humbly with

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your God.
This is not a commandment toburden us, but it is a path, a
way of being, a rhythm for ourhumanity, and a doorway into

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divine life.
Let's take a deep breathtogether.
Inhale, receive the gift of thismoment, and exhale, release

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everything that is not neededright now.
Again, slowly.
Inhale peace.
Exhale striving.
Feel your feet grounded on theearth.

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The same earth that is heldprophets, saints, and Jesus
Himself.
You too are being held.
You belong here.
As your breath slows, notice youare both human and divine, made

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from star dust, yet carrying thebreath of God.
Micah six, eight gives us asimple and sacred pattern.

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Do justice.
Love mercy.
Walk humbly.

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Setting all things right.
Kindness, mercy is not aweakness.
It is strength expressed ingentleness.

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Humility is not smallness.
It is the grace of knowing thatyou walk with God in every
breath.
This is how we live as divinebeings in human form.

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By letting love become ourrhythm.
By seeing God in one another.
And by remembering that we arenot separate, never alone.

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Let your heart rest in thistruth.
There is no doing of justice ormercy apart from God's presence
within you.
All of it flows from divineunion.

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Let the words of the prophetMicah become a prayer within
you.
Do justice, love mercy.
Walk humbly with your God.

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Slowly bring your awareness backto the room.
Feel your feet on the earth oncemore.
Notice your breath.

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Steady, calm, alive.
You have met God in thestillness.

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As you go from this place, mayyou walk humbly in your
belovedness.
May mercy shape all of yourwords.
And may justice flow throughyour hands.

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Go in peace, beloved, rooted inthe oneness of God's love.