Prayer 04: Being With God

Rule of Life

Practicing the Way

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 700 Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2023

⏱️ 63 minutes

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What is it to simply be with God? What does it look like? What does it feel like? In this discussion on the fourth movement of prayer, you’ll hear what it means to go from talking to God, talking with God, and listening to God…to being with God. Existing together in his presence…free from any words at all. This episode features wisdom from Rich Villodas and Strahan Coleman as well as everyday apprentices of Jesus. These podcasts accompany nine Practices developed by Practicing the Way. Thanks to the generosity of The Circle, these Practices are now free. To learn more about The Circle or to participate in a Practice with your church, community, or small group, visit www.practicingtheway.org.

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0:00.0	Prayer formation is often uneventful.
0:04.0	Nothing's happening.
0:06.0	And I think that is the stumbling block of it, and at the same time that's the secret sauce of it, is that nothing is happening in the moment.
0:16.0	Or it seems what Thomas Merton would say is, you know, something's actually subterranean happening on a level
0:22.1	that we can't even, with our sensory perception,
0:26.1	we cannot touch it, smell it, taste it, see it,
0:29.9	but something subterranean is happening.
0:36.0	You're listening to the Rule of Life podcast by practicing the way.
0:40.4	In each season, we explore an ancient practice from the way of Jesus
0:44.6	and its relevance for the modern era.
0:47.5	This is Season 2, Prayer. Hey everyone.
0:55.0	Tyler Staten here and welcome back to episode four of the Rule of Life podcast
1:14.9	Season 2, which is all about prayer. We're sitting here for one last time in the studio of the
1:20.8	Bible Project, who again was so kind to allow us to occupy their space. Thank you so much, friends.
1:27.0	Here are the stages that we're working through
1:29.8	when it comes to types of prayer.
1:31.4	We've talked about talking to God,
1:33.8	talking with God, listening to God,
1:36.7	and now we will land with being with God.
1:40.1	Thank you. And it should be clarified that, of course, we're not talking about stages of development into a life of prayer.
1:59.5	We view this more as a tightening spiral where we always are
2:03.3	interacting with all of these ways of prayer as we go on a journey of maturity in our conversation
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