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🗓️ 5 September 2022
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Ever wonder how to pray? What should you focus on or where do you even start? Wes Butler shares 5 points of focus from the Lord’s prayer that we can put into practice.
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0:00.0 | everybody what is going on you know what time it is you're listening to join the journey podcast |
0:05.7 | with your host emma daughter thanks for joining podcast friends once again i am not emma daughter |
0:14.0 | but i am west butler and i'm excited to sub in one more time for today's podcast episode uh this |
0:19.9 | episode is being released on September 5th, |
0:21.9 | which happens to be my oldest son's 19th birthday. So happy birthday, Josiah. And also, |
0:26.7 | happy Labor Day to the rest of you. Hope you're enjoying the day. We're in Luke 11 today. And we're |
0:31.9 | really going to focus in on the first 13 verses. As we do, I want to ask you to reflect for a |
0:37.2 | second on this. Who taught you to |
0:39.3 | pray? And what did you learn from what they taught you? Maybe your background was similar to |
0:44.1 | mine growing up in a strong Christian home, praying every night before bed and before meals, |
0:48.9 | and going to prayer meetings maybe on Wednesday nights. Or maybe the prayers you were exposed to growing up |
0:54.0 | were more like |
0:54.6 | nursery rhymes or songs that you said ritualistically at different points in the day. Could be that |
0:59.6 | your attitudes about prayer were shaped by cynical family members or friends who made jokes about |
1:03.9 | people who prayed or about prayer in general. I'll never forget as a child, my grandfather, who |
1:09.7 | did not have a relationship with the Lord, |
1:11.7 | praying before a meal, over the teeth, pass the gums, look out stomach, here it comes, amen. |
1:16.8 | And then smirking to let us know how ridiculous he thought it was that we actually thought we |
1:21.2 | were talking to God. Well, regardless of your experience with prayer growing up, the reality is this, |
1:27.0 | that all of us have a view of |
1:28.8 | prayer that likely needs correction or at the very least redirection. We all learned our prayer |
1:34.8 | habits and attitudes from flawed people. Now, wouldn't it be great if we could just ask Jesus, |
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