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Lets Talk POWER OF PRAYER · Fostering Faith

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  Hello and welcome to Fostering Faith. Today on episode 7 we'll be talking about
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  power of prayer. So mom, I got some questions for you. The first question I
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  got is, why do you feel like pray, what do you feel like prayer means? Like what do
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  you think like the definition is? So a definition of a prayer is for me going to
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  God and giving thanks, asking for certain things, laying my worries at his feet.
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  That's what I would think prayer is. Alright, my second question is, what is
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  prayer to you? I think we just kind of went over that. What's prayer to you? Prayer
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  to me? Kind of like praying to God and like just tell him everything. Even though
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  he already knows what you want or you're asked for, it's just for us to like kind
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  of like confirm that, you know? That's why I feel like it means. Okay, how often do
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  you pray? Every day. Often. A lot. Do you have any, is there any scripture that you
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  know of that says how many times you're supposed to pray? No. Can you pray once
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  a day? You can pray as many times as you want. Does he ever get tired of hearing
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  your voice? No. What do you think some barriers would be that kids wouldn't want
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  to pray? Well, if they didn't want to pray, I feel like it would be like because
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  God didn't answer them. Because I feel like that I feel like when I started
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  praying, I feel like God would just give me an answer right then and there, but it
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  takes a little time. It takes him time to answer you and it just keeps, if you keep
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  on praying, it's building your faith more. Okay, and so I think that's an
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  important thing that you said was that you felt like whenever you started to
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  pray that he was just going to give you everything that you asked for and we have
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  to remember that he is a God, that he created the heavens, the earth, you are
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  listeners and he is not a genie, that he is not going to give you everything that
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  you prayed for and why would he not give you everything that you prayed for?
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  Because some things you just don't need. It's like always that you want something
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  but you just always just don't need it. Yes, and is it our job to understand why
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  there are prayers that are unanswered, that we feel are unanswered because every
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  prayer is answered. Yes, no, maybe you're not right now and so while there are
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  listeners out there, they're praying for someone to be healed, for their child, for
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  their mother, for their father and they pass away. God didn't answer me. He wasn't
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  listening. How can you pray to a God that would allow this to happen?
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  And so as a youth, while you could have someone that's praying for their mom to
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  not die of cancer and they died, how could you comfort them in letting
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  them know that God was listening? God was listening because if someone's in
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  pain but you want them to like to feel better, I feel like the best place for
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  them to go is heaven. Because if they were praying, that means probably more
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  people are praying for them. If they ask people to pray and if you're praying for
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  someone that's hurting real bad, he will probably answer you or send them to the
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  best place where they will never feel pain again. And I do think that we don't
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  have to know every why. We don't have to know every question and we just have to
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  know that he is sovereign. We have to know that everything happens for a reason.
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  We may not understand it. We may not even have to agree with it. But we know that
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  he is always good and that his ways are greater than our ways, right?
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  Even for busy moms, I think that a great way to do that is to get up early. I
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  know that may sound not like a fun idea at first, but really just spending that
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  time in the morning with scripture and praying because I have to lay my day out
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  in front of him and ask him questions about what arose in my head during
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  scripture and just in prayer for my day, thanking him for just yesterday and giving
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  me breath in my lungs and just for everything and I don't know how my day
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  would be if I did not put him in first. And so we always prioritize what's
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  important and so just refocusing on priority and putting him first in our
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  day for prayer. But like you said, prayer all day is so important. Okay, my third
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  question is why is prayer important? To me it's because that's what builds that
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  relationship with God and so you can go to him and know that you have your
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  Heavenly Father who has created the sons, who created the earth and you're
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  praying at six o'clock and by sometimes eight o'clock you already have an answer.
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  Does that happen all the time? No. But in that instance, it says so many times in
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  scripture, do not be anxious, do not be nervous and give it to your Father. I
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  mean so just like with you, I want you to come to me for everything and so nothing
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  is silly, nothing stupid, nothing is too little. You know, if it's important to you,
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  it's important to me and so that's his relationship with us is that everything
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  that you feel is big, everything that you feel is small, like it's like he's so
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  happy to hear from us because he is a good Father and he wants to help us. He
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  wants to have us to have an amazing life and so just being able to be in his
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  presence is amazing. Okay, I know you asked me this question already but why do
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  you feel like people don't pray? And so I actually asked your
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  dad this question before the podcast started and it was he felt that he did
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  not want to bother God. He said I didn't think that it was important enough to
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  bother him with it and that was you know earlier on in his walk and
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  with faith and I think that a lot of people like I'm not gonna bother God
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  with that. I hear that all day long is that I'm like well did you pray about it?
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  I'm not gonna bother him with that. Bro, that's your dad. He loves you.
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  That's not a bother to him. He wants to hear from you. He wants a
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  relationship and it's not about religion, it's about relationship and so
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  you're like you're so excited to go to him and be like what are we gonna do
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  about this problem and what was that about and you know like whenever
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  something doesn't go your way asking him what what what happened like where was
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  my heart like what was the vision like what's going on and so just in being in
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  constant doubt that well I'm gonna pray it I'm not gonna get it or you know what
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  happens if he says no or I really want to be full in for God and you pray that
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  and then it happens and so it can be really scary and so just looking at
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  what you're praying why are you praying for it check your heart but the most
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  important thing is that God wants to know he wants to hear you he feels that
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  the relationship part of your walk is so important and it is there's nothing
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  that he doesn't want to hear. Okay my fifth question is how do you how can you
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  pray more like for the people that are listening and they're wondering how can I
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  pray more how can I remind myself how how do you remember to pray and how can
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  you remind yourself? I think that just like what you had said earlier about
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  praying all day long and so I pray for vision I pray for wisdom I pray for
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  knowledge I thank him in advance for things and it's just like a new habit
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  and so you have to just kind of do it put promptings on your phone and like we
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  talked about in our last episode was about setting reminders on your phone
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  like said that reminder app every hour pray and so you can pray about what
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  you're gonna do in the next hour if you're gonna have a meeting if you're
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  gonna see a friend or if you have like a test or if you have you know something
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  going on at school for a teacher for a friend and just getting in that habit
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  in that routine of I know it's gonna be 10 o'clock I know it's a low minute
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  clock and it doesn't have to be this long you know delved into prayer but
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  there's so many scriptures you know that talk about prayer you have first
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  Cessilonians 5 16 through 18 rejoice always pray continuously give things in
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  all circumstances for God's will in your hey Christ Jesus you have Philippians
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  4 6 through 7 do not be anxious about anything but in everything by prayer and
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  petition with Thanksgiving present your quest to God in the peace of God which
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  transcends all understanding will guard your heart and your mind in Christ Jesus
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  and so you have God guarding you with his peace you have you know in Matthew you
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  have in Jeremiah you have in James first John Psalms Romans Mark 1124
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  therefore I tell you whatever you ask for in prayer believe that you have
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  received it and it will be yours I mean and where there's always context with
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  these and so we're not just taking out you know a verse always go back and read
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  you know who Mark was what was going on in Romans what was going on in Psalms
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  read the chapter get the context of what was going on and I feel like just
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  having more repetition and feeling that it's important and that way you will
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  make it part of your life because it can change your life and so why would you
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  feel and how could kids put that more into their life I feel like putting
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  prayer into my life it's just something that just comes to you like if you feel
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  like you if you don't want to talk to about someone because you feel like
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  you're gonna be embarrassed God will never judge you or anything and so how
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  could they implement that into their school day as school is getting ready
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  to start um like in between classes or something like that we are walking to
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  like your locker or something walking between class and everything like that's
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  a good thing so every time is change a subject changes and so that can help do
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  you pray before you go to school yeah okay how could a family pray together
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  what do you mean by that how could some what how could a family incorporate
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  prayer as a family what would be an easy way to do that um just kind of like
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  asking them hey mom and dad can like we pray together whoever you're guardian
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  and say can we pray as a family like or like before like you eat dinner exactly
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  and so hopefully people have the opportunity to sit down for breakfast
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  together for supper together and we know that that's a luxury and everyone's
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  busy schedule but you know having that dinner prayer I think is so important
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  for families to connect and just put God you know there in the center of the
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  table I think that that would be an easy gesture just to kind of bring up even
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  if your family is not real believers that you know here is this time can we
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  can we just pray and thank him for the food that we have and so I do think that
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  would be a good way to kind of end the episode and just take those like little
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  tidbits and practical ways to add prayer into your life just kind of going
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  throughout your day setting reminders on your phone praying in between classes
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  and just adding that prayer into even supper time and so as we end this prayer
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  as we end this prayer episode let's let's bow our heads and pray dear
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  Heavenly Father thank you so much for today thank you so much for yesterday
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  thank you for the ability to reach so many people thank you that you are
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  opening up their hearts thank you for opening up their minds thank you that
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  we have the Holy Spirit for boldness thank you that we are wanting a new
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  routine show us the way you are our light in our darkness and you are lighting
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  the path thank you for the chance to do this again next week thank you for
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  everything that you do and Jesus say my prayer amen all right thank you for
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  turning in this week guys and stay tuned for next week you don't want to miss it
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  bye