Hello everyone. Welcome back to the Excel Stillmore podcast. I am your host, Chris Emerson,

and we are here to talk about tips and strategies that we can employ to help us grow in our

faithfulness to God to reach new heights to excel still more.

Thanks for joining. Let's get started.

All right, everyone. So today I'm really excited to share this with you.

I really wanted to do it in our earlier episodes, but it's just been kind of evolving and cultivating in

my life, and I wanted to give it a few weeks, and I knew that there would be even more to share.

But today we're going to talk about asking beautiful questions. We ultimately just have one thing

we want you to think about this week, and that is the way that you pray to God.

We know that we're supposed to pray to God with frequency. We're supposed to be anxious for nothing and go to God every single day. But the nature of the questions, the scope of the questions,

the amount of belief you're bringing into those questions, well, that's something that I think everybody could stand to reevaluate,

and I'm excited to tell you about how I have interacted with God very differently in the last few weeks,

really taking all of the limitations and barriers off of my faith,

and experienced God's action and direction in some pretty awesome ways. So that's what we're

going to talk about. Before we get to that, to the prayer part, I want to tell you where this idea

originated, at least for me. There's a guy named Warren Berger, and he wrote a book called The Book

of Beautiful Questions. So keep this in mind, it's just a secular book. It's not about God. That's a connection that we'll make in a minute. But the idea is that we just ask too many closed questions or don't ask enough questions. If people don't know things, they typically just go around not knowing things. And instead of exploring new ideas and asking really open, wide questions, ones that take reflection,

self-evaluation, like, how can I become the kind of person who does this, or what are some

things in my life that I've been missing that are holding me back, we tend to just sort of

plug along and take it as it is. And most of the questions that adults ask are

things you can just, you know, Google and then you know it 10 seconds later. One of the points that he makes

is that up to the age of about seven children are pretty amazing at asking incredible questions. Have you

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