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🗓️ 28 December 2022

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Join the TMBT community in reading the entire New Testament in 2023. Get your FREE reading plan here. Do you really understand how prayer works? When are you most likely to pray? If you pray the right way, will God give you want you want? In today's episode, Jensen looks at Jesus's example of prayer and shares four helpful tips to create a habit of prayer. Your support makes TMBT possible. Ten Minute Bible Talks is a crowd-funded project. Join the TMBTeam to reach more people with the Bible. Give now. Like this content? Make sure to leave us a rating and share it with others, so others can find it too. Use #asktmbt to connect with us, ask questions, and suggest topics. We'd love to hear from you! To learn more, visit our website and follow us on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter@TenMinuteBibleTalks. Don't forget to subscribe to the TMBT Newsletter here.

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0:00.0	Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life and the time it takes to get to work.
0:10.8	I'm Jensen Holt McNair.
0:12.1	Dear Lord, please help me to fall asleep and stay
0:17.1	asleep for the rest of the night and to wake up in the morning. Amen. That is the one prayer and maybe the only prayer I prayed for the majority of my
0:27.6	childhood before I went to bed every single night. I was afraid of the dark and I was afraid of dying and so I wanted to fall
0:36.7	asleep fast, stay asleep all night, and definitely wake up not dead in the morning. Those were my priorities and that is what I prayed for years.
0:48.8	As I grew up my prayers evolved to include other worries and fears. But looking back I see a distinct
0:54.6	pattern in my life that revealed a deep misunderstanding of what prayer really
0:59.1	was. I always thought prayer was about getting something from God, and on some level I think I thought if you prayed the right way, then you were more likely to get what you wanted.
1:09.0	But I ended up praying when I needed something, and only when I needed something.
1:15.2	This led to a prayer-dependent life when things were really hard, and a prayer-baron life
1:20.4	the rest of the time.
1:22.2	And to be honest, that pattern still forges its way into my life today.
1:27.3	See, prayer has always seemed mysterious or uncomfortable to me in any other form than just asking for something. And it hasn't come easy to me to
1:36.2	slowly break down the belief that that is the only way that I can pray. But what if the point of prayer was far different? What if instead of looking
1:46.3	at prayer as a list we present before God to get what we think we need? We saw it as a life-changing habit of spending time connecting with God.
1:57.0	Now making prayer happen in my life hasn't come easy and I'm not there yet.
2:01.0	To be honest, I'm learning a whole lot from people much smarter than me
2:05.3	by reading books and listening to podcasts on the subject. But for today, I want to go back to
2:11.2	scripture, to the place in the Bible where Jesus gives us an
2:14.7	instructions manual on how to pray. And I just want to learn from his
2:19.4	example of what it can look like to pray to God habitually and not just when I feel like I need help.
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