This is Jenny Allen and you are listening for supporting Made for This.

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to start your free 30-day trial. So last week we talked about the Holy Spirit.

And this week we talked about the Holy Spirit and this week we're going to talk about actually praying and

this came up a little bit last week but what I want to talk about this week is the

fact that we never talk about this for real but I think most people say that they pray and they

actually don't and I know that is quite an accusation for some of you you're like

wait a minute that is not true at all okay so let me ask you a question then

When is the last time that you actually formed words to God? Maybe it was this morning. Maybe you are a faithful

journal keeper like my mother-in-law who writes events in her journal and she she

prays in her journal. Maybe you are a prayer that spends two hours in the morning on her knees

and good.

This episode will not be for you.

Please record one and send it to me but many of you talk about

prayer say that you will pray say that you did pray and honestly nobody

taught you how and it feels futile because sometimes maybe you wonder what's

the point if God is in control and everything is decided, then why do we even pray?

So this is going to be an honest episode about prayer.

Because I think we need it.

If this is the greatest tool we have to connect our lives to God, to fight our

sin, to see life change happen around us, to cause change to happen in the people we love. Why is it something that we

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