Prayer is Not Like Same-Day Dry Cleaning

Keep the Heart

Francie Taylor

Religion & Spirituality:christianity, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 15 February 2022

⏱️ 11 minutes

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We are nearly ruined with our expectations for speed. If the computer won't load a screen in five seconds, it's so slow. If the gas pump doesn't shoot the fuel into our cars like liquid lightning, we wonder what's taking so long. If we're standing in line behind someone who is paying by cash, it seems like it's taking them forEVER to pull that old-school currency out of their wallet. And so we carry the expectation for speed into our spiritual lives, imagining that if we've prayed, we should have our answer within the same day at best, the same week at worst. Prayer is not like same-day dry cleaning that goes in by 10am and out by 4pm. Prayer is a our communication with God. It is a combination of relationship-building, making our requests known to God, and then trusting His timing as we wait for the answers. Prayer is also specific, as we'll hear in this episode based on the passage of Luke chapter 18. Great spiritual habits have great value, which is precisely why they are also harder to develop. If you've ever sat through a sermon about prayer, feeling guilty or wishing that you would pray more, this brief study will give you helpful ideas that are also sustainable. We're going through the powerful passage in Luke 18:1-8 together. At the end of it, you will want to pause and take some time to pray. NEW! Rose Gold KJV Personal Size Bible NEW! Be Like Jesus T-shirt ICU--In Christ Unconditionally: Heart Conditions Bible Application Study NEW! Mirror Talk: A Journey from Hurt to Healing Keep the Heart on Instagram Donate to the Podcast Keep the Heart on Facebook Francie on Facebook

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0:00.0	When you're trying to do something that's better for you, especially spiritually, do you feel guilty
0:05.9	when you can't achieve it? I think there's probably a lot of guilt floating around about whether
0:12.4	or not we pray enough. And honestly, I think that the measurement might be even faulty.
0:18.9	What is enough prayer? If the Bible says pray without ceasing, what is that like?
0:28.3	Thank you for joining Keep the Heart for today's podcast with Francie Taylor. Francy is an author,
0:34.6	conference speaker, and teacher. She is passionate about teaching what to do
0:39.5	with what we learn from God's Word. Now back to today's valuable study.
0:49.2	I love the example in Luke chapter 18 when Jesus was speaking, and he said this. It's Luke 18. If you've got
0:58.2	Bibles with you, you really want to follow along on this one. But if you're walking or in the car,
1:02.7	that's okay. I'll read it. But Luke 18 says this, and he spake a parable unto them to this end,
1:08.7	that men ought always to pray and not to faint, not to faint,
1:13.9	not to lose heart, not to get worn out. Have you felt sometimes like you've prayed yourself dry?
1:20.6	Like there's nothing left in the well. Lord, I don't know what else to say. Have you ever said that to God? I sure have. I have literally had
1:31.4	times in prayer where I paused and said, Lord, I really do not know what else to say. I don't know how
1:37.5	else to pray. But I love that he leaves us examples in scripture and honestly, just talk to let him hear from you he never gets tired of
1:47.8	the sound of your voice who else can you say that about so back to luke 18 in verse number two
1:54.3	jesus started the parable saying there wasn't a city a judge who feared not god neither neither regarded man. So just think about that for a second.
2:04.1	There's this judge who's like, I don't care about anybody. I don't care. He was full of himself and just
2:10.6	didn't have time for anybody else. And then verse three says, and there was a widow in that city.
2:16.0	And she came unto him saying,
2:18.1	avenge me of mine adversary. She was asking this judge to help on her behalf. And it says in
2:24.1	verse four, and he would not for a while. Now think about that. She went to the person who was
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