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Hey there friends, I'm Nicole Eunice and I'm the host of How to Stay the Bible and I'm also your guest host today on your daily prayer.

If you enjoy listening to this show, I have a feeling you'll love my show too.

I've spent about 20 years serving the local church, first in student ministry and then in ministries of all kinds,

but across the board, my favorite thing that I get to do is to give people the tools they need to encounter God for themselves through his word.

In my show How to Stay the Bible, I bring life back to reading the Bible by walking you through a very simple method of Bible study called the Alive method

to help you personally encounter God yourself with a practical, clear roadmap for understanding and interpreting and applying Scripture to your life.

In the preview you're about to hear, I dive into Matthew 6 verses 5 through 9.

So we're going to read it together and then we'll hear a little preview of what to expect on my show.

Matthew 6 verse 5.

And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others.

Truly, I tell you they have received their reward in full.

But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your father who is unseen.

Then your father who sees what is done in secret will reward you.

And when you pray, do not keep on babbling like pagans, for they think they will be heard because of their many words.

Do not be like them, for your father knows what you need before you ask him.

This then is how you should pray.

Our father in heaven, hallowed be your name.

Here's a little take from how to say the Bible.

The easiest way for me to check my own heart is to ask what is my private prayer life look like.

Am I hearing from God and making space to hear from God and experience God on my own?

From my Heavenly Father, from my relationship with my Heavenly Father,

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