Praying with Paul
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
4.8 • 5.3K Ratings
🗓️ 8 July 2026
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
The mark of Christian maturity is an increasing dependence on the Lord. This dependence expresses itself in prayer. Today, Joel Kim identifies four elements of the Apostle Paul's prayers to instruct our own prayer life.
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Joel Kim is a Ligonier Ministries teaching fellow, president and assistant professor of New Testament at Westminster Seminary California, and a teaching elder in the Presbyterian Church in America.
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| 0:00.0 | For those of us who are in Christ Jesus, the older we get, the wiser we get, we come to recognize we don't know as much as we think we do. |
| 0:12.5 | We're not as wise as we once thought that we were. |
| 0:16.7 | We can't do as much as we thought we could, and the more we age, we become ever more dependent. |
| 0:25.9 | And as believers, the marker of maturity for Christians is not independence away from the Lord, |
| 0:32.6 | is greater dependence upon the Lord. |
| 0:41.4 | Music greater dependence upon the Lord. We don't naturally enjoy being dependent on other people, and yet part of maturing spiritually |
| 0:47.5 | is growing in the understanding that we are absolutely dependent on God, for everything. |
| 0:54.0 | Hello and welcome to renewing your mind on this Wednesday. |
| 0:57.0 | Joining us today is Reverend Joel Kim. |
| 0:59.0 | We're featuring his series Everything in Christ. |
| 1:02.0 | And today he'll explore why prayer is not a peripheral Christian practice. |
| 1:07.0 | It's one of the clearest expressions of spiritual maturity and dependence on God. |
| 1:13.0 | Here's Reverend Kim. |
| 1:16.6 | I'm blessed to be born into a believing family and also into a pastor's family. |
| 1:23.4 | And so I'm what they call a P.K., a pastor's kid. |
| 1:27.1 | And one of the characteristics of my parents, even to this day, is that they pray. |
| 1:32.0 | They pray. |
| 1:32.7 | And when I hear words like this from D.A. Carson, when he talks about the introduction to Paul's letters, |
| 1:39.4 | where prayer is included in the introductions, this is what he says about his parents. |
| 1:45.4 | In the ranks of ecclesiastical hierarchies, my father is not a great man. |
| 1:51.2 | He has never served a large church, never written a book, never discharged the duties of |
| 1:57.0 | high denominational office. |
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