Welcome back to the Ransantar Podcast with John Eldridge.

One of my favorite parts of parenting young children back when our boys were young and still children in our household was,

I loved reading to them. I loved telling them stories. The three boys actually shared a room when they were very young and I'd go into their bedroom at bedtime and we'd say our prayers and then I'd lie on the floor and tell them stories.

And this just remained some of the most precious memories of our household. I love reading.

And even now here at the empty nest years, stay snile read to each other sometimes.

And so I'm going to read to you friends here on the

Ransom TARP podcast in the second week of a series on prayer I'm going to read to

you from chapter one of my new book called Moving Mountains

on powerful and effective prayer.

A disruptive but hopeful truth.

Look, let's go ahead and name the elephant in the room. Some prayers work and some prayers don't.

Why does that surprise and irritate? Some prayers work and some prayers don't.

Why does that surprise and irritate us?

Some diets work, but most don't.

No one is really surprised by that.

We simply keep looking for the one that will work for us.

Some investments produce, others don't.

You look for the program that works for you.

Some schools are effective.

Others fail badly.

Hopefully you can find the situation that's right for your child.

There is a way things work.

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