Encountering God through Prayer

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First15

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 20 June 2023

⏱️ 9 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.

Our Scripture for today comes from Jeremiah 33:3, and today's worship is House of God Forever by John Foreman.

Thanks for listening to today’s First15 Podcast. If you haven’t downloaded our brand new First15 app, make sure to click the link in today’s show notes to check it out! One of the new features that you can enjoy when you download the app is our Guided Prayers. We are adding new prayers to our library every month, so if you need a moment of peace with God, let these prayers be your guide!

Today’s episode contains a guided prayer that aims to help remind us to slow down with Jesus when our bodies and our minds are racing. When it feels like things are going so fast that you’re having a hard time keeping up, our prayer is that this Guided Prayer helps center your heart and mind on the one who holds it all together.

Laura Woodworth is a writer-producer-director, a script consultant for Stage 32 and a development executive for Cooke Media Group in Los Angeles. More than anything, she is a wife, mom and friend who loves to inspire God’s people to arise as a light for a hurting world. Connect with her further at LauraWoodworth.com.

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0:00.0	Prayer is so simple but oftentimes our minds convoluted and complicated. Today we're exploring
0:13.4	how to encounter God through prayer and I pray you take away a simplified childlike
0:20.5	approach to spending time with your Heavenly Father. May your heart and mind be at peace
0:26.0	today as you encounter the living God. Welcome to the first 15 podcast.
0:36.7	Through prayer we have access to deep encounters with the heart and mind of our Heavenly Father.
0:42.9	Jeremiah 333 says, call to me and I will answer you and I will tell you great and hidden things
0:50.6	that you have not known. God longs for us to call him as our source of life, wisdom,
0:57.0	guidance and truth. He longs to answer our calls by shepherding us into a lifestyle of continually
1:04.0	seeking and receiving revelation from his word and spirit. But in order for us to truly engage
1:11.1	with God and prayer we must learn what it means to listen. Mother Teresa said prayer is not asking,
1:18.8	prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God at his disposition and listening to his voice
1:25.9	in the depths of our hearts. I find that we do not pray incorrectly as believers from a lack
1:32.6	of earnest desire for God but rather from a lack of knowledge and past experience. Do you know and
1:40.0	believe that you can truly put yourself in the hands of your Heavenly Father and listen to his
1:46.2	voice as Mother Teresa did? Do you know that your creator longs to open your eyes and heart to
1:52.6	receive the knowledge of his love, will and divine nature? Taking time to listen to God and prayer
2:00.0	is at the very core of Christian spirituality. It is a skill of the highest value that is only learned
2:07.3	by patience, repetition and faith. You can hear God because he wants to talk to you. You have no
2:14.7	less inherent ability to hear God than me, Mother Teresa, or any of the disciples. Those who hear
2:22.2	God are simply those who make space and seek out his voice. Psalm 4610 says, Be still and know that
2:31.2	I am God. I will be exalted among the nations. I will be exalted in the earth. In stillness we grow
2:39.0	in our knowledge of who God truly is. God longs to make us a people who know him the way you know
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