Convert. Welcome back, welcome back to Encounter Now podcast, guys. My name is Chelsea. If you're new,

I'm joined here with my husband. We talk about all sorts of things on this podcast, but in today,

in particular, we're talking about prayer, how it's been monumental and has changed each of our lives and how we've

seen that in other people and ourselves. And so we hope this is just encouragement to you. Maybe it

sparks something new in your relationship with Jesus, but also maybe if you're curious, like,

hey, I see all these Christians praying and just saying that they're praying, but are they really? And I'm just

an outsider. I'm just curious. So we welcome you all in, and we hope that you learn something from

this episode. And let's just go ahead and get into it. Today's podcast is brought to you in part by Denison Ministries and their First 15 email devotional.

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Today we're in the studio, in the apartment, in the second bedroom, whatever you want to call it.

Today we're talking about

prayer. Prayer, all the things prayer. This topic, like a lot of other things that we talk about,

has in my lifetime been very questionable to me, not so much questionable, more confusing than anything

because I always

wondered how prayer mattered if God was completely sovereign and knew everything that was to happen

before it happened and if our prayers even mattered. So the answer to that in short before we,

you know, before you have to dig too far into the podcast is yes. Yes, it does matter.

And we're just going to explain a little bit of why and what it's meant to us and how prayer

will change your life. So without further ado, Chels, roll us into it. What are your thoughts on

this? Just tell us some of the stuff that you've been learning. I know that you shared a little

bit of it with me before the podcast. What do you think? Well, I love where you started

because you started unpacking. Does it even matter? And I think all of us have kind of gone

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