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The Word of God is described as the sword of the spirit, the primary spiritual weapon in the

Christian's armor against the forces of evil.

Your hosts are Joby Martin and Kyle Thompson, and they stand ready to equip men for the fight.

Let's sharpen up.

What's up, guys? David Pollock here. Day four, filling in for Joey Martin and Kyle Thompson.

Kind of cool, kind of excited, man. Excited to talk about prayer. And prayer is such a powerful

thing in our lives. And I know you've read in the Bible where it's in so many places.

And it's just, it talks about the

ability to connect with God and to have a relationship with God. And for me, for years, man,

extremely transactional relationship. Like, I would ask him, you know, in the morning I would talk to

him. I would ask him, you know, around meals. And just sporadically, when I thought about it,

you know, it's something that I'd reach out to God and holler at him. But as I've gotten older,

man, and I've started to build some rhythms, it's really made a huge difference in how I talk to God

and most importantly, how I hear from God. And I use this system for me. First of all, I have to be selfish in the morning if I want to be selfless the rest of the day. And I have to get my prayer done first thing. First thing I do is go straight to my sauna for 20 minutes. And it's a non-negotiable. Whatever time I need to get up, that's coming first. And it's 20 minutes to pray. It's to get still. The Bible says, be still and know that I am God. How many times do we really do that? A lot of us want to hear from God, and we want to hear from God on an awesome high level, but we don't get still enough. We don't have time to listen. We don't make time to listen. We don't make time to talk.

So creating that time for me in the morning is pivotal because I'm going to get my 20 minutes

every single morning. And then I've started to develop a rhythm and I've started to develop the

three R's. And here's the three R's for me that help me really bring God into my day,

into my past, and help me succeed in my prayer life. Because I'm going to be honest, it can be

boring. It can be monotonous. It can be something that you feel like you do the same prayer all the time.

But now, if I use my three R's, it has really helped me.

So the first R is reflect. So reflect on what God did yesterday. What did I do, man? What did I do

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