Hey everybody, welcome to you were born for this podcast with Father John Ricardo.

That's me. I'm Father John. I'm the executive director at Acts 29, where we talk about anything

and everything having to do with transformation in the church. I'm here with my new grandmother

teammate, Mary Guilfoyle. How you doing can you see me smile I can see you smile I'm doing

great it says I have twin grandsons that's what it says thanks you Jesus for the wonderful gift of life

amen and we talk a lot about transformation in the church right now and we want to talk about that

on this podcast like we do on every episode and we're going to talk about something at the heart of transformation what's the topic we are we're going to talk about that on this podcast like we do on every episode. And we're going to talk about something at the heart of transformation.

What's the topic?

Amen, we are.

We're going to talk about creating a culture of prayer.

Love it.

So it would probably be right for us to pray right now.

Let's do that.

In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.

All Heavenly Father, we give you praise and thanks for the simply remarkable reality that we can

approach you anytime anywhere with whatever it is that's on our minds but we thank you for the

access that we have to you,

all because of what Jesus has accomplished for us,

for his tearing down the wall,

for his tearing the curtain in the temple,

giving us access,

even though we are just dust and ashes we've become your adopted sons and daughters and you are our dear father and so we entrust this time to you right now we ask that your

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