Hi, my name is Pete Kizzerra. I want to welcome you today to the emotionally healthy

leader podcast. Today's topic is skills to revolutionize your prayer life. It's a part one,

explore the iceberg. I've been wanting to do this podcast for a very long time, and I'm so

excited that you have joined me for this today. Now, Jerry and I spent 21 years working on

skills or tools to help folks apply a biblical theology of loving God, ourselves, and other people into their lives.

And actually, part two of the emotionally healthy discipleship course, which is called

Emotionally Healthy Relationships, is actually, as one pastor said to me recently,

it's the secret sauce, Pete, isn't it of all of the age discipleship? And it really is.

Each of the eight skills that were developed over this 21-year period are quite revolutionary

with many, many layers of depth theologically underneath them. But each, this one,

this week, explore the iceberg and next week weeks as well, have power to revolutionize your

prayer life. I don't say that lightly so that a deep theology of scripture gets into you

and informs how you pray. This is not a small thing, but actually earth shifting, impacting

powers and principalities that keep so many of us and our people in bondage and really

freeing the church and freeing people to be and do all that God has invited them and call them to be and do.

So as you integrate emotions into your spirituality, your capacity to discern God and know God

just explodes. So I have a lot to say about how this applies to leadership and our prayer

lives in particular, but I want to lay a

foundation for the rest of this podcast by playing a 13-minute clip from the emotionally healthy

relationships course on a session that is actually called Explore the iceberg. And so Jerry and I will

lay a really good foundation, Theologically and and practically in that 13-minute clip.

And then I'll come back after that,

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