Prayer is so simple, but oftentimes our minds convoluted and complicated.

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.

Welcome to the First 15 podcast.

Thank you. Our scripture for today comes from Jeremiah 33, verse 3.

Call to me and I will answer you, and will tell you great and hidden things that you have not known. Through prayer, we have access to deep encounters with the heart and mind of our Heavenly Father.

Jeremiah 33, verse 3 says,

Call to me and I will answer you and will tell you great and hidden things that you have not known.

God longs for us to call to him as our source of life,

wisdom, guidance, and truth.

He longs to answer our calls by shepherding us

into a lifestyle of continually seeking

and receiving revelation from His Word and Spirit.

But in order for us to truly engage with God in prayer,

we must learn what it means to listen.

Mother Teresa said, prayer is not asking.

Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God at his disposition

and listening to his voice in the depths

of our hearts. I find that we do not pray incorrectly as believers from a lack of earnest desire for

God, but rather from a lack of knowledge and past experience. Do you know and believe that you can

truly put yourself

in the hands of your Heavenly Father

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