Praying Daily with J.D. Greear

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Alli Worthington

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🗓️ 14 June 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Whether praying is a part of your daily routine or just something you do when your back is against the wall, I bet you’ve wondered, at least once, “Does prayer actually work?” I’m not talking about doubting faith here, but often prayer can feel more like a duty than a delight. It can be tempting to think it doesn’t make a difference or we’re too busy to do it properly. Well, friends, J.D. Greear is joining me today to help us make sense of our relationship with prayer. J.D. is the pastor of The Summit Church, with locations in Raleigh and Durham, North Carolina, and the Southern Baptist Convention president. And he’s got a new book coming out later this summer called Just Ask where he shares practical tips for including prayer in everyday life. And not just prayer, but confident, bold, patient, relentless, shameless, dependent, grateful, powerful, expectant prayer. Together, JD and I discuss the idea of how God works through our prayers to accomplish His will and what’s at risk when we don’t pray. JD also shares practical advice on praying so that it’s a natural part of our relationship with our Heavenly Father, not an obligation. Listen in to learn: Why JD wrote Just Ask and how God spoke to his heart throughout the process What happens when we pray and how it impacts the work God is doing Practical advice on praying so that it becomes a natural part of our relationship with God instead of an obligation. Favorite quotes: 1. One of the encouragements that I gathered from my reading and study of prayer in the bible is how much the bible is written to deal with the problem of unanswered prayer or that feeling that God is not hearing me. 2. Some things only come out in persistent prayer because God uses that to give us a hunger and thirst for him.3. Prayerlessness is a fruit of a heart that has not been trained properly by the gospel. 4. Prayer warriors are not born overnight. They’re developed by discipline and consistent gospel input that reshapes your heart to call out to your heavenly father. In this episode I answer this question: 1. For a busy mom with a sporadic schedule, how do I fit in time with the Lord? (30:23) Great things we discussed: 1. JD Greear 2. Just Ask 3. William Augusto4. Seinfeld 5. The Last Kingdom6. Gentle and Lowly 7. Luluemon 8. Dream Horse 9. Tremble 10. Standing Strong Hope you loved this episode! Be sure to subscribe in iTunes and slap some stars on a review! :) xo, Alli

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0:00.0	Hey, hey, this is Allie and welcome to the Allie Worthington show.
0:06.7	It's where we gather, learn, share our stories, and have a great time.
0:10.8	Every week I'll be chatting with a friend who I know, who I like and I respect,
0:15.4	and I want to learn something from.
0:17.2	And after we have that discussion, we are going to have coaching time.
0:20.2	So I'm going to be
0:20.8	answering your questions about life, about faith, and about business. Welcome to the show today.
0:26.4	I'm with J.D. Greer, who's joining us to talk about some surprising things about prayer.
0:31.9	Now, I get it. Prayer is one of those things we think we know. We're like, oh, prayer, I got that. We're like, oh, I think I know everything about it. I've been learning about prayer for years and years and years,
0:42.2	but I think that we all still have a lot to learn. And Pastor Greer really brings some fresh
0:48.8	insight that I know is going to be super helpful to you and you're going to be super glad that you've
0:53.5	learned.
0:59.5	JD is the pastor of the summit church that is over in the Raleigh-D Durham area, North Carolina, and he is also the president of the Southern Baptist Convention. So we're super excited to have
1:03.7	him on the show. And after we talk with JD, I'm answering your questions. Today's question is a
1:08.6	faith question. And someone wrote in and said, as a suggestion for a busy
1:12.1	mom with a sporadic schedule, how do I fit in time with the Lord? I got a lot to say about that.
1:17.2	I was telling a friend recently that my kids are older now. They're 13 through 22. But I don't even
1:22.6	remember the decade of raising them when they were little and I had, you know, five under 10. It was just
1:29.4	insanity. So I have some advice on how to fit in time, whether you're a busy mom and you have a
1:35.3	bunch of little kids and you just hope to get a shower every day or you're like the rest of us
1:40.2	and we're living these full lives and it's important to fit in time. So we'll dive in there.
1:44.9	And I want to remind you if you haven't read Standing Strong, I want you to read Standing Strong,
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