Praying "In" God’s Word
The Jeff Cavins Show (Your Catholic Bible Study Podcast)
Ascension
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🗓️ 17 April 2026
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
When you pray with Scripture, you are not guessing what God wants, you are praying from the very words He has already given you. Jeff encourages us to bring our struggles, whether family, health, finances, or anxiety, directly to God by praying through Scripture.
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is brought to you by Ascension. To discover even more free Catholic podcasts, |
| 0:05.4 | videos, and resources, to help you live your faith every day, visit ascensionpress.com. |
| 0:11.8 | Welcome to the Jeff Kaven Show, where we talk about the Bible, discipleship, and evangelization, |
| 0:18.0 | putting it all together in living as activated disciples. |
| 0:23.6 | This is show 478, praying in God's Word. |
| 0:33.7 | Welcome to the show this week. I'm Jeff Kavans. Thank you for joining me again. |
| 0:39.2 | Been thinking about you and thinking about everything that's going on in the world today. |
| 0:44.2 | You know, people watching the news and everything. |
| 0:46.5 | And in the midst of it, you got to remember that people are having personal struggles as well. |
| 0:52.5 | Yeah, there's the macro reality of what's going on in the |
| 0:55.9 | world, particularly in the United States right now, but there's also drama going on in many lives, |
| 1:03.5 | and you might be one of them. You might be one of those that things are going on in your life |
| 1:08.3 | with your marriage, your children, your finances, your health at work, politics, neighbors, unanswered questions, tax extensions, all these things. |
| 1:20.5 | And today we're going to talk about praying about all these things. |
| 1:26.1 | And I've entitled the show today praying in God's Word. |
| 1:30.8 | In other words, using God's Word to pray because God's Word is God's will. |
| 1:37.3 | He reveals himself in Word and deed, and we know that if we're going to pray, we don't want to be praying against God's will |
| 1:47.2 | and expecting some kind of answer. That would be foolish. We want to pray according to God's |
| 1:54.1 | will. And so if you want to know what God's will is, may I introduce you to the Bible. And if you don't have a Bible, |
| 2:03.0 | I would encourage you to order a great adventure Bible right away from Ascension Press. |
| 2:09.0 | And that is a Bible that will teach you how to read the Bible. And it's color-coded and |
| 2:16.2 | beautifully laid out. It comes in a couple of versions. You can |
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