God’s School of Prayer

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John Piper, Unknown, 163859, Pastor, Ask, Theology, Desiring God, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Questions

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🗓️ 6 July 2022

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

When God puts us in the flames of suffering, he often intends to rescue us from self-sufficient comfort and awaken in us desperate, earnest prayer.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the podcast on this holiday week here in the States.
0:08.2	Well, we go to school to learn and when it comes to prayer, we sometimes need to be enrolled
0:13.6	in the School of Prayer, God's School of Prayer.
0:18.0	And that School of Prayer is described for us in the Old Testament in a book we don't
0:22.4	go to very often.
0:23.4	It's the book of Zechariah.
0:26.0	It's there that we find a key text in John Piper's understanding of how we learn to
0:29.4	pray.
0:30.4	Zechariah 13 verses 8 and 9, a text never mentioned on this podcast until today.
0:37.0	Here he is to explain the importance of this text is John Piper in a sermon he preached
0:41.9	to his church in the final days of 2008 looking ahead to the new year of 2009.
0:48.7	Here's Pastor John.
0:49.7	Okay.
0:50.7	Zechariah.
0:51.7	You know where that book is?
0:54.9	Second from the last book of the Old Testament.
0:56.7	If you go to the end of the Old Testament and flip back about four pages, you'll be there.
1:01.8	Zechariah chapter 13 verses 8 and 9 and we'll wrap it up here with this.
1:09.4	What did I get hit with in Zechariah that gave this message of the twist it's now getting
1:16.5	on prayer?
1:18.3	I don't think I'd ever seen this before.
1:27.6	This is a couple of verses about God's school of prayer.
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