Encountering God through Prayer
First15 Devotional
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🗓️ 24 June 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Prayer is so simple, but often times our minds convolute and complicate it. Today we’re exploring how to encounter God through prayer, and I pray you take away a simplified, childlike approach to spending time with your heavenly Father. May your heart and mind be at peace today as you encounter the living God.
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| 0:00.0 | Prayer is so simple, but oftentimes our mind convoluted and complicated. Today, we're exploring |
| 0:12.6 | how to encounter God through prayer, and I pray you take away a simplified, childlike approach |
| 0:20.2 | to spending time with your Heavenly Father. May |
| 0:23.5 | your heart and mind be at peace today as you encounter the living God. Welcome to the First 15 |
| 0:31.0 | podcast. Our scripture for today comes from Jeremiah 33 verse 3. |
| 1:02.5 | Scripture says, |
| 1:04.2 | call to me and I will answer you |
| 1:07.6 | and will tell you great and hidden things that you have not known. |
| 1:16.2 | Through prayer, we have access to deep encounters with the heart and mind of our Heavenly Father. |
| 1:24.4 | Jeremiah 333 says, call to me and I will answer you |
| 1:29.3 | and will tell you great and hidden things |
| 1:32.3 | that you have not known. |
| 1:34.9 | God longs for us to call to him |
| 1:37.5 | as our source of life, wisdom, guidance, and truth. |
| 1:43.4 | He longs to answer our calls by shepherding us into a lifestyle of continually |
| 1:49.5 | seeking and receiving revelation from His word and spirit. But in order for us to truly engage with God in prayer, |
| 1:59.2 | we must learn what it means to listen. Mother Teresa said, |
| 2:05.9 | prayer is not asking. Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God at his disposition |
| 2:13.3 | and listening to his voice in the depth of our hearts. |
| 2:19.8 | I find that we do not pray incorrectly as believers from a lack of earnest desire for God, |
| 2:26.7 | but rather from a lack of knowledge and past experience. |
| 2:32.3 | Do you know and believe that you can truly put yourself in the hands of your Heavenly Father |
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