Hi, I'm Leslie Ludi, host of Set-A-Part Girl podcast biblical encouragement for women of all ages. Today I went to build on our last episode which was about history shaping prayer and talk about

keys to building a powerful prayer life.

Before we dive in, I wanted to let you know that right now you can join our Ellerslie online

discipleship program, you can register and have access to these powerful sessions through the middle of

June and we're doing this by donation only so if you are not able to travel this year

it's not practical for you to come out to Colorado for a five week or a one week program

Consider joining us for the online version of Ellerslie. It's really really powerful

for the times in which we live and there are a lot of new bonus tracks and timely

messages for all the things that we need to be built strong in as Christians

today. Go to Ellerslie.com to learn more. We love to see you in the program. Let's look at keys to building a

powerful prayer life. I feel like as women when we are dealing with problems or

uncertainty in our lives we often default to things like manipulating our

circumstances or manipulating other people or maybe nagging,

criticizing, complaining that oftentimes happens in marriage when we're not happy with

our circumstances there or even things like just depression, anxiety, or emotional breakdowns

when things are difficult or uncertain or feel unstable in our lives.

But this pattern is just like that old hymn says,

oh what peace we often forfeit,

oh what needless pain we bear, all because we do not carry everything to God in prayer.

God has a very practical and simple solution when we are facing trouble of any kind and that solution is prayer. It says

in James 513 is any among you afflicted let him pray. So if we are dealing with affliction or discouragement or

uncertainty or any kind of trouble, God says let him or let her pray. That's

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