A Prayer to Cultivate Our Hearts for Spiritual Growth
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Your Daily Prayer
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🗓️ 16 May 2025
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
Have you had an encounter with God that has impacted and changed your life for the better, one or more experiences that have caused spiritual growth in your life? Sharing our personal spiritual experiences with others helps to encourage them that God loves them and is present and interested in our lives, ever willing to help us. - Lynette Kittle
In this episode of Your Daily Prayer, Lynette Kittle invites listeners to reflect on how we can actively prepare our hearts for a deeper relationship with God. Using Acts 17:26–27 as a foundation, she offers four biblical ways to pursue spiritual growth: seeking God, reading Scripture, inviting the Holy Spirit’s teaching, and maintaining a life of prayer.
If you've ever felt distant from God or longed for more personal connection with Him, this prayerful devotion offers practical encouragement and Scriptural truth to draw near and grow in faith.
Topics covered:
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How to cultivate your heart for spiritual growth
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God’s desire for personal connection with us
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The essential role of Scripture and prayer
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Inviting the Holy Spirit’s guidance
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Encouragement for those feeling spiritually dry or distant
Scripture References
Acts 17:26–27 (NIV)
“From one man He made all the nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and He marked out their appointed times in history and the boundaries of their lands. God did this so that they would seek Him and perhaps reach out for Him and find Him, though He is not far from any one of us.”
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Prayer Summary
A prayer asking God to soften our hearts and help us grow spiritually through consistent Scripture reading, dependence on the Holy Spirit, and daily prayer. It reflects a desire for transformation and deeper intimacy with God.
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| 0:00.0 | Life Audio. Thank you for listening to your daily prayer, a podcast dedicated to helping you find the words you need to connect with your father in heaven. |
| 0:23.4 | No matter what is going on in your life today, |
| 0:26.0 | you can trust that God wants to hear from you. |
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| 0:31.2 | we will pray through today's prayer together, |
| 0:35.1 | a prayer to cultivate our hearts for spiritual growth. |
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| 2:01.9 | A prayer to cultivate our hearts for spiritual growth, written and read by Lynette Kittle. |
| 2:17.3 | From one man, he made all the nations |
| 2:19.5 | that they should inhabit the whole earth, and he marked out their appointed times in history |
| 2:25.2 | and the boundaries of their lands. God did this so that they would seek him, and perhaps reach out |
| 2:32.2 | for him and find him, though he is not far from any one of us. |
| 2:37.9 | Acts 17, 26 through 27. |
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