Hi, friends. Welcome to another episode of That Sounds Fun, spiritually stronger. I'm your host,

Annie F. Downs. I'm so happy to be here with you today. If you've ever wondered if God actually hears you

when you pray, or if you can trust what you hear from God when you pray, this conversation is for you.

I am fired up about this one, y'all. Get ready. So today on the show, I get to talk with my

friend Lauren Tomlin. Lauren is a prayer warrior, which is why I called her to come back

for the series, because I wanted a friend to sit down with me and really talk about how to pray.

Y'all, this is a note-taking episode. If you feel overwhelmed by all the hard that is happening

around us in the world or in your own home, we're going to talk about how to pray. If you've wondered how to discern what God's telling you, we're going there too. And if you just need a minute to sit with God, Lauren's going to lead us through a guided prayer at the very end. And I don't want y'all to miss that. We're also going to put those guided prayer questions at our substack today,

spiritually stronger.com, and they will be there for you to copy down. Okay, y'all, here's our

conversation about prayer with my friend Lauren Tomlin. You are joining us right after T.R. Lauren, who you're also friends with.

Yes.

Jump right in with us.

We hear that story and even hear TR's wrestle of why did we obey God and it not go well.

Right.

That happens to so many of us.

He just said the quiet thing out loud.

Yes.

We're like, what was that about?

Yeah. Like, this did not go the way I anticipated. Yeah. You know, when he was telling me the story,

I mean, I just could not believe the level of opposition. But it was so clear to me, I just

thought that it was a great maturing of like God was giving them a greater awareness of the authority.

Yes.

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