Kaleb Allen: Prayer, Perseverance,and New Year Spiritual Reset| 450
Dad Tired
Jerrad Lopes
4.9 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 6 January 2025
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
A new year often brings the desire to reset—not just with goals and routines, but in how we lead, parent, and connect with God. In this episode, Kaleb Allen reflects on the emotional and spiritual weight many men carry coming out of the holidays: feeling off-rhythm, spiritually dry, or unsure how to re-engage. In reference to James 5:17 and Elijah’s prayer life, he calls Christian husbands, fathers, and leaders back to the foundation—fervent, honest, consistent prayer. He urges you to show up before God with your whole heart and trust Him to work through your weakness.
What You’ll Learn:
- Why James 5:17 matters for men struggling to pray
- How early church history describes James as a man of consistent prayer
- What it means to pray like Elijah—with faith, urgency, and expectation
- Why prayer is hard—and how to reengage your heart when you feel numb
- The role of fervency, persistence, and spiritual travail in breakthrough
- Why your emotions can’t be trusted to lead your prayer life
- How real prayer engages your whole being, not just your words
đź“– Scriptures References:
James 5:17–18
1 Kings 18
Daniel 7
Matthew 28, John 13, Luke 24
Romans 8
1 Thessalonians 5
Luke 18
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| 0:00.0 | Hey y'all and welcome back to the Dad Tired podcast. Today's episode is brought to you by the |
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| 0:55.9 | Two, one, go. And all right. All right. All right. All right, guys, what's up? It is the new year, first podcast of the new year. |
| 1:12.6 | And as we do around the season, like, I think all of us are trying to reset and think |
| 1:17.2 | through what life is and what life should be. |
| 1:19.7 | And, you know, you just get into this thing over the holidays where you eat too much and |
| 1:22.8 | you sleep too much. |
| 1:23.6 | And it was all of your rhythm and all of your routine. |
| 1:26.1 | And then I was fishing with my my 17 year old |
| 1:31.1 | and some little kids yesterday and just not catching anything I just spent the whole day like |
| 1:36.9 | fixing knots and trying to get the kids to not cast their bait on the boat like to put it in the |
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