#25 - Prayer

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Welcome to Mind of Faith Matters. I'm Dr. Cory

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Potter the host and today let's talk about prayer.

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But before we get into the episode I want to

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share something personal. I used to love calling

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my dad after work or on the weekends. I would

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tell him about my day, share my frustrations,

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and hear about what was going on. what he was

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doing. And those conversations always left me

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feeling comforted and encouraged. In time though,

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my dad developed dementia and her talks changed.

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He was often confused and eventually couldn't

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connect with me like he used to. And it was stressing

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him to have some of those conversations. Earlier

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this year he passed away. And of course I really

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miss him. And I miss those conversations deeply.

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I yearn daily for his listening ear, his encouragement.

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He never skipped an opportunity to tell me he

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was proud. I loved his advice and I loved his

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love. He always asked if me or my family needed

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anything. And as I thought about prayer this

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week, this reminds me of something really important

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about prayer. When we pray, we are talking to

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our Heavenly Father. He's present and he's listening

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And he's full of love for us Just like my dad

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Was to me and to everyone frankly who was in

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his life My siblings and I talked about that

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at his funeral when we were reminiscing You see

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in prayer just like when I talked to my dad we

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don't need the perfect words We just need to

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lay out our hearts and our feelings. To my dad,

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it was over the phone, but in prayer, it's to

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heaven. The Bible even uses the word Abba alongside

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father to describe that relationship. Abba is

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an Aramaic word that carries the sense of deep

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intimacy and affection. Like calling God, our

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beloved Father. It's not meant to be casual.

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I mean, some interpret it to be like, I can call

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him Dad. I know him. But it shows that closeness.

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And in passages like in Mark 14, 36, Romans 8,

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15, and Galatians 4, 6, we see this word paired

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with the Greek word for Father to emphasize that

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God invites us. Into a child -to -parent kind

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of relationship Filled with trust and love and

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security I think Many of us haven't experienced

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what I got to so I apologize that I'm emotional

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today about the positivity that I had from my

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relationship with my dad, I candidly yearn to

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develop more of that type of relationship with

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my Heavenly Father. And so when you think about

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talking with God, do you think of Him as this

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loving Father who wants to hear from you? Or

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do you picture Him as some distant, hard -to

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-reach person? And I know the God of the Bible.

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So let's start with the basics of prayer today.

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What is prayer? Simply it's prayer is talking

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with God. It's opening our hearts to Him and

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sharing our joys, our needs, our fears, keeping

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the relationship healthy. It's about sharing

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our gratitude and just like with my dad, asking

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Him to guide me. The Bible shows us so many different

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prayers in many forms in the Bible. For example,

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Jesus prayed often. In Philippians 4, 6, the

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Bible says, do not be anxious about anything,

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but in everything by prayer and petition. With

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thanksgiving, present your requests to God. Prayer

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is God's invitation to come near. Like that phone

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call to my dad. It's... about an opportunity

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to be honest because He knows us anyway and He

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sees what's going on in our lives. It's about

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us positioning ourselves before Him and being

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honest with Him and learning to trust Him. The

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Bible gives many reasons why we should pray.

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We pray to worship God and to thank Him and to

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ask Him for His help and to confess our sins

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when we've done wrong things that are against

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him To ask for that forgiveness and really to

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listen for his guidance in 1st Thessalonians

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chapter 5 verses 16 through 18 Paul says rejoice

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always pray continually give thanks in all circumstances

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For this is God's will for you and Christ Jesus

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So prayer shapes our hearts to align with God's

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will and here it says that we should pray continually

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and I don't want you to misinterpret that to

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think I need to pray 24 hours a day seven days

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a week but it really is about in every type of

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situation to pray to him and these prayers can

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be a conversation. They don't have to be long

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and sophisticated. They can be short dialogues.

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But Jesus gave us a model, if you will, of the

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Lord's Prayer in Matthew 6 verses 9 through 13.

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And it begins with honoring God. You know, our

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Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, then

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asks for his kingdom to come and his will to

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be done. And it asks for daily bread, which really

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means trusting him to provide for us daily. And

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the prayer includes forgiveness of sins and the

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call to forgive others, don't forget. And the

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prayer closes with asking for protection from

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temptation and deliverance from evil. So it is

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a model, it's not a formula per se that you have

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to always keep. It begins with God. We want to

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seek His will and thank Him and then bring our

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needs to Him and, you know, confess what we've

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done, forgive others, and ask for His guidance

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and protection. But it requires no special performance

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or rehearsed words. One of the common questions

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I got as a pastor was, how do I pray? I don't

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know how to pray. And I would say back, sincerely

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is how you should pray. What God values is our

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sincerity. He listens to our hearts and when

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they're open and humble, He wants to know what's

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going on. This pastor, Chris Hodges, he's the

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senior pastor and founding pastor of Church of

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the Highlands. He shares a simple framework that's

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very similar, but to help you remember, he gives

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it the five P's of prayer. He says, praise, and

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that's beginning by honoring God for who he is.

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Praise him. Thank him. And then it's about priorities.

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We pray that his will will be done and his kingdom

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to come. This means put his plans above our plans

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He's not a genie in a bottle that's here to make

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all our wildest dreams come true and make us

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rich and successful Maybe that's his plan, but

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that's not Determined by you and that's not determined

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by how hard you pray for it. We want to put his

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plans for glorifying Him and spreading the word

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about Him above our own to be successful and

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comfortable. I'm just here to be honest with

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you. It's in scripture. The next is provision.

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We need to ask God to meet our daily needs. Sometimes

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they're big. Today I had some big needs. I was

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a mess. A lot of stressful meetings, a lot of

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stressful interactions, and maybe it was small

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to some. But to me it felt big today. We need

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to do the P, which is pardon. We need to confess

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our sins and receive that forgiveness from God

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and forgive others. We can't forget that part.

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And the P of protection is the next one. We need

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to pray for God's guidance and strength against

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that temptation that's out there and the evil

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that's in the world. So these five areas of prayer.

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can help us when we don't know where to start

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and Chris Hodges also writes I love this you

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see how well if you're not watching you can't

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see it but I'm going to tell you has the word

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worry crossed out on the cover then cry crossed

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out and then it has the word argue crossed out

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and then fight crossed out and then it has the

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words pray first circled He wants us to make

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prayer our first response and not our last resort.

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So in his introduction, which I'm about to read

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some of it, he encourages us to pray as a natural

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part of our life. When you wake up in the morning,

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pray first and thank God for the day ahead. I

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know a lot of us thank Him that we're still alive

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and have breath in our lungs, and that's good.

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He says before you go to sleep at night, pray

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first and praise him for getting you through

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the day's demands. When you're leaving your home

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for school, pray first. Merging onto that busy

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highway, pray first. About to lead the Zoom meeting

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at work, pray first. Reconnecting with a friend

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over coffee, pray first. Helping your kids with

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homework, pray first. Waiting in the doctor's

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office? Pray first. Paying for groceries at the

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store? Pray first. And in today's market, that

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makes a whole lot of sense. Pray for the sale.

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No matter what you're doing throughout your day,

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praying first keeps you tethered to the one who

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loves you most. Prayer opens us up to God's presence

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and wisdom before we act, speak, or decide anything.

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That's what praying continually is about before

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we act speak or decide anything. Let's bring

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God into it. That's what he wants So what keeps

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us from praying many people hesitate to pray

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for a lot of reasons some of us feel unworthy

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We just feel like we don't have it together yet,

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and we can't come to God or we're worried about

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Saying that something wrong or what we're going

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to say and so we don't like to pray out loud

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in front of others because of judgment. And some

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believe that they need to pray to follow a formula

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all the time, every time, and sound impressive

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to do it. Scripture reminds us, and I want to

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remind us today, that God looks at the heart.

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And this is awesome. Romans 8 verse 26 says that

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when we struggle to find the right words to pray

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The Holy Spirit steps in to help us. He understands

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our weakness and speaks to God on our behalf

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as believers. I love that so much. But I do have

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a warning for some of you today. Some teachings

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out there suggest that if we declare something

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strongly enough, we can make it happen. Now,

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I think we should pray. and pray about the same

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thing over and over and be consistent. But the

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key here, the catch is the Bible shows us that

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God is the one who answers prayers according

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to his will. In 1 John 5 14 the Bible says this

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is the confidence we have in approaching God

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that if we ask anything according to his will

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he hears us. Interestingly That doesn't guarantee

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that he answers that prayer right then. As I

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said in last week's episode, episode 24, when

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I was talking to my friend Karen about OCD and

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her faith, we talked about sometimes God says,

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no. Sometimes he says, whoa, like, wait, this

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isn't the time. And sometimes he says, go, it's

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a green light when we pray. and he answers that

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prayer and so many times in our life when we

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submit a prayer to God we have to learn to trust

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him and lean on his wisdom so that we have his

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will being done his kingdom come his will be

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done not Corey's or yours fill in your name I

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want to talk next week about different models

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for prayers in the episode and I want to talk

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about strategic prayer spiritual warfare because

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it is a huge weapon against the enemy but for

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this week in my introduction to prayer I want

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to talk about prayer is really it's a gift it's

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how we bring our whole selves before our Heavenly

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Father who loves us it's how we find peace in

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our lives and guidance and strength it also helps

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our growth in our relationship with him. I've

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talked about it in some of my first episodes

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about my letters that I would write to Sue when

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she was in college in Florida and I was in Texas

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and how much those communications when we couldn't

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see each other built our relationship and helped

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her to know that I was committed and wanted to

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let her know what was going on in my studies

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and in my days and in my frustrations and we

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couldn't afford the cell bill at that time because

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we were paying by the minute and we had to talk

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late at night because we're older and that's

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how it rolled and so those letters and communications

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were just key in building that relationship and

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I feel the same way that continual constant Dialogue

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and conversation with God is a huge way to build

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our relationship And I want you to remember something

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this week That you can talk to God at any time

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from any place He's everywhere. He hears it all

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Don't try to put him in your shoes Because he's

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above us and his ways are above us and so God

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is all -knowing and He can hear your prayers.

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So I want to leave you with these questions this

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week to reflect on. When you think about prayer,

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do you feel pressure to say the right words or

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do you feel free to talk honestly with God? Like

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I was talking about my own father. Really just

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impacted me. tremendously and helps me to understand

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how my Heavenly Father sees me. My next question,

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what fears or barriers keep you from praying

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more freely? And how might remembering what I

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told you about the spirits help? How could that

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change that view? The next question is how does

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it change your view of prayer to know that God

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listens carefully to you? But no matter what

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you're asking, He always answers in line with

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His perfect will. And the last question, what

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step could you take today to make prayer a more

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natural part of your daily life? I want to thank

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you for joining me today. I'm really excited

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to bring you another episode on prayer next week.

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In the meantime, if you would like to go to mindandfaithmatters

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.com and look for the companion resource guide

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for episode 25, I'll be putting my notes there

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and resources there. I want to encourage you

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this week, if you've never read this book by

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Chris Hodges, I would ask that you would trust

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me on this one. You will enjoy it. A book called

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Pray First from Chris Hodges. Chris Hodges. I

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would love for you to share the episode. I would

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love for you to like the episode wherever you

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got it and subscribe. I want to make God famous,

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not myself. And I want to keep on spreading the

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word. And this week I think this message is that

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important. And my last thing for this week. I

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have so much work to do in this area of prayer.

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I've been invigorated by this episode and I have

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this book. There's also a study guide, like if

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you're doing a small group study, and I'm going

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to ask Sue if she and I can do that together.

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But I also want to say, hey, if I get enough

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positive response, if you comment on the website,

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if you email me at mindandfaithmatters at gmail

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.com and say, I would join in a study with you

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on Zoom or some site like that where we could

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dig into prayer together. outside of the podcast

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where we could connect and do some things. I'm

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open to that. I feel like that's where God's

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leading me, but I can't force anyone to do it.

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And this would be awesome if maybe international

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folks that speak English because I don't know

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too many foreign languages, if you would like

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to join in. So I'm just putting it out there

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that if legitimate people have real concern and

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real desire to learn more about prayer, Let's

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do it. Let's connect and figure out a time to

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study more about God's Word and prayer. But until

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next week when we talk about spiritual warfare

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and strategic prayers and different models of

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prayers, just remember, it's a conversation between

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you and your Heavenly Father. And I hope it could

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be a blessing to you. Just like my earthly dad's

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conversations are something I always treasure.

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And I long for God and I to continue to have

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conversations like that. Thanks for joining me

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today. God bless and have a great week.