I always try to remind people like you don't have to always be talking. Prayer can be just

being silent. Be still and know that I'm God. That's prayer too. And there's still a lot

communicated in the silence. And so I don't think you have to fill every second and fill

all the air. It's listening, it's speaking, it's just being together. I think that God

wants you to be liberated in your prayer life and not feel like you're a prisoner in it.

Help them to the Jesus Calling podcast. As children, many of us have been taught to pray,

and that God will help us. But as we grow into adulthood, our simple prayers can turn

into desperate pleas, as our lives become more complex and difficult. What happens when

the prayers we pray don't seem to be heard, where the circumstances of our lives become

so dramatic, we may doubt if God is even listening. Our guests this week had their own ups and

downs in their relationship to prayer, and to God. Pastor Levi Lusco faced the tragic

loss of his five-year-old daughter that shook his whole world. Foster Dad, Peter Medibati,

grew up in a mind-numbing poverty, made worse by the abusive as earthly father, robbing

him of his hope of possibly ever knowing the love of a true father. These men share their

experiences and what gave them hope to survive the most devastating experiences of their lives.

First up, we'll talk with Levi Lusco, the pastor of Fresh Life Church, who opens up about

the tragic loss of his daughter, Lena, and shares how he processed his own grief through

honest conversations with God, and how he was moved to help his kids through their grief,

by creating scripture stories that could help all children going through loss, understand

the heart of God. When Linu and Tevin, we were at a loss as parents,

not only how to go through, we were facing ourselves, but how to help our kids

process it. Of course, we involved professionals and our spiritual community and all the rest,

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