Being intentional about prayer can be difficult.

There are a million distractions and our prayers can sometimes feel flat and dry.

If prayer is about communicating with the God of the universe, can't they be more real and deep?

Today, you'll learn a creative way to be more intentional about prayer so that you may know God and engage with Him in a deeper way.

Okay. about prayer so that you may know God and engage with him in a deeper way. Welcome to the Sheeproves Faithful podcast episode number four, truth and encouragement to

help us live gospel-centered lives every day. I'm your host, Lauren Lushak.

Hey, everyone. Thank you so much for joining me today.

I am talking all about prayer today, which is kind of a tricky topic for me sometimes

because it doesn't feel as concrete as some other topics.

You know, if we're going to talk about reading the Bible and ways you can read the Bible,

I mean, you pretty much open the Bible and you read it. But with prayer, I feel like it can be

like open-ended and all over the place in a good way. But sometimes it's hard for me to communicate

about prayer. But I thought I'd talk about prayer today because I just had the great privilege of going up to a summer camp

located in the Pike National Forest here in Colorado called Eagle Lake Camps.

It is a fantastic, wonderful summer camp.

It's what got me out here to Colorado from Florida.

When I was going to college from Florida. When I was working or when I was going to college

at Florida State, I heard about this summer camp called Eagle Lake and I loved kids. I loved the

outdoors. So I literally signed up, take me out to Colorado, crossed the Mississippi River for the

first time in my life and came out west and served for a summer

and it turned into three additional summers. Anyway, I loved it out here. I will tell you that

this Florida girl in the Colorado Mountains did not understand weather patterns out here

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