Talking to God | Prayer E1
John Mark Comer Teachings
Practicing the Way
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🗓️ 17 November 2023
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
How do we pray in a world full of smartphones? John Mark dives into Luke 11 and how Jesus taught his disciples to pray, showing how this prayer orients us to the character of God and how other pre-written prayers can help us grow in our walk with God.
Key Scripture Passage: Luke 11v1-4
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the John Mark Comer teachings podcast by practicing the way. |
| 0:05.0 | This teaching was originally given at vintage church in Santa Monica, California, |
| 0:11.0 | as a part of a series on prayer. |
| 0:20.0 | Thank you, Gare, or as your son Sam calls you, Gr. |
| 0:28.0 | That's my new nickname for you. |
| 0:30.0 | I love it. Do you know is this man's birthday this week. Notice he sighed, that's because he turned 51. |
| 0:38.0 | More than half a century. |
| 0:41.0 | That's, wow, well well done you're still life we're so proud of you well done and we love you and honor you so much good morning everybody I've just started by insulting your pastor, but I promise you there's |
| 0:54.5 | relational equity there, I promise you and it comes from a heart of love. It's great to be here. |
| 0:59.4 | My family and I just moved to LA. I grew up in California, but spent the last 20 years in exile in the beauty and |
| 1:07.8 | green and gloom and rain and antidepressants of the Pacific Northwest and and |
| 1:15.0 | it was an honor to serve there for many years and now I just wake up in the morning. |
| 1:20.0 | I can't I can't talk about the weather with you from who are native to Southern California |
| 1:24.8 | because you just don't understand. You're so narrow-minded. You have no... |
| 1:28.4 | But the other day I'm walking my dog and you know we moved to Topanga Canyon and it's beautiful and I |
| 1:35.5 | passed a neighbor and we're kind of you know it's chit-chat stage we just moved in and I |
| 1:39.1 | said he goes you know we take this weather for granted don't we and I said no we don't we wake up every |
| 1:47.4 | day and dance and he looked at me like I was the weirdest new neighbor on the planet. |
| 1:52.6 | But very happy to be with you. |
| 1:54.1 | Please turn in your Bibles to Luke Chapter 11, |
| 1:58.0 | and stand with me for the reading of scripture. |
| 2:03.6 | And I would invite you over the next few weeks if you have a Bible, not as in like the app on your |
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