S5 Ep179: Persisting in Prayer with Chrystal Evans Hurst
Live Well Anyway
MacKenzie Koppa
4.6 • 605 Ratings
🗓️ 26 August 2020
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
This week on Cultivating the Lovely, host MacKenzie Koppa chats with Chrystal Evans Hurst. Chrystal is a wife, mom and grandmother who ministers to women and writes in the margins whenever she can. Today’s episode is a conversation centered on prayer and Chrystal’s new book The 28-Day Prayer Journey. (Affiliate links are used in this content.)
- Chrystal talks about prayer in terms of prioritizing communication
- The goal of The 28-Day Prayer Journey as a way to build a habit and a relationship
- Taking time several times throughout the day to pray and talk with God
- Doing the thing you need to do in order to learn to love doing that
You learn to communicate with God by communicating with God.
Chrystal Evans Hurst- The power of prayer to change how you interact with your family and friends
- How Chrystal decided what aspects of the practice of prayer to include in the book
- Dealing with disappointed hopes and unanswered prayers
- Choosing to believe even when you don’t understand God’s ways
- The effectiveness of journalling and writing down your prayers
- You have to do the work to build the relationship with God
- A typical day for Chrystal currently
Chrystal: listening to music and burning candles to set a warm atmosphere
Resources Mentioned- Books: Movies: Find Chrystal-You can find Chrystal on her website ChrystalEvansHurst.com. You can also follow her on Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest, and Twitter.
Find MacKenzie-You can find MacKenzie Koppa on Instagram, Facebook, and the CTL Facebook Group, of course! Join us on Patreon at Patreon.com/CultivatingtheLovely.
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| 0:00.0 | I think that this idea that God is with us, that's what Emmanuel means and that he is actually |
| 0:05.2 | there. |
| 0:05.5 | So anytime we want to talk, he's there to listen. |
| 0:20.1 | Welcome to Cultivating the Lovely. |
| 0:22.1 | I'm your host, Mackenzie Kappa. |
| 0:24.0 | And around here, we know that life is hard and we have to do everything we can to just make it a little bit more lovely. |
| 0:30.3 | So it's my mission to bring you great conversations, practical tools and information, and a healthy dose of community to help make those things happen. |
| 0:38.0 | If you want to find out more, you can go to our website at cultivating the lovely.com, |
| 0:41.8 | visit our amazing membership community at patreon.com slash cultivating the lovely, |
| 0:46.4 | or by connecting with me on Instagram, which is one of my favorite places to interact with all |
| 0:50.4 | of you. You can find me at McKenzie Kappa. Thanks so much for joining me today. |
| 0:56.3 | Ladies, we have made it to the final episode of season five of the podcast. I can't believe |
| 1:02.6 | it's been this many years that we've been doing this show. I cannot wait to kick off season |
| 1:07.2 | six next week and be telling you about the fun new things that we have coming to |
| 1:11.4 | cultivating the lovely but for today i have on crystal evanshurst and we're talking about the |
| 1:17.0 | importance of prayer and how to make it a more realistic thing in our lives and working it into our |
| 1:22.9 | daily routines and she's got a beautiful sweet succinct new book that I can't wait to talk about. But first, |
| 1:28.9 | of course, I want to talk to you really quickly about Patreon because all of us have a lot going on |
| 1:33.7 | in our lives. This fall looks very different than any fall has looked for any of us ever. And we all |
| 1:38.9 | need a little bit of extra support. And that is what we are doing in Patreon. Not only will you get |
| 1:43.2 | support and encouragement and a little bit of comm Patreon not only will you get support and encouragement |
| 1:44.6 | and a little bit of commiserating with the other ladies in the group we are working on planning |
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