C.S. Lewis once said that the value of prayer isn't in trying to change God's mind, but in how it transforms the person praying.

So, is prayer really just an anxiety ritual or a self-help exercise?

Does God hear your prayers, or is that voice in your head just, you know, you?

What have you experienced?

Does prayer do something beyond making you feel better,

reinforcing a need for more prayer? Or is that part the whole point? Call us, because the lines are

open and the show is coming right now.

Okay, well, welcome everyone. Today is August 3rd, 2025. I'm your host, Christy Powell, and joining me again today is Richard Jilver. Hello, yes I am. And I'm very excited to be here.

And I'm very looking forward, very much looking forward to today's show. I'm wondering what kind of

I've been hitting a couple of new social media platforms with some stuff this week. So I'm

wondering if that's going to translate into calls, but we'll have to wait and see. Yeah, new social

media platforms is now like a trigger phrase for me. I, I,

you're doing the Lord's work for lack of a better word. Thank you for getting out there. It's

very brave. Yeah, it certainly is honestly. I'm taking that and accepting it fully because yes,

it is. Sure. Well, I'm excited to talk to all sorts of new people from all sorts of new corners

of the internet. I think this topic, this discussion around prayer is going to be very

interesting for you and I. We've had a number of conversations on this show before about

meditation and how meditation isn't prayer, prayer isn't meditated.

I don't know.

We're going to get into it.

It's going to be a good time.

Yeah, absolutely.

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