Teachback Tuesday-Prayer is Not Like Same-Day Dry Cleaning

Keep the Heart

Francie Taylor

Religion & Spirituality:christianity, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 16 May 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Welcome to Teachback Tuesday, where we play the most popular episodes from the previous season. This week's episode, "Prayer is Not Like Same-Day Dry Cleaning, has been popular ever since it first aired in February of 2022. I wonder if that's because so many of us struggle with patience in prayer. After all, prayer and waiting are inseparable, but many of us aren't so great at waiting! We are nearly ruined with our expectations for speed. If the computer won't load a screen in five seconds, it's so slow. If we're standing in line behind someone who is paying by cash, it seems like it's taking them forEVER to pull that old-school currency out of their wallet. And so we carry the expectation for speed into our spiritual lives, imagining that if we've prayed, we should have our answer speedily. Prayer is not like same-day dry cleaning that goes in by 10am and out by 4pm. Prayer is a our communication with God. It is a combination of relationship-building, making our requests known to God, and then trusting His timing as we wait for the answers. Prayer is also specific, as we'll hear in this episode based on the passage of Luke chapter 18. Great spiritual habits have great value, which is precisely why they are also harder to develop. At the end of this brief episode, take some time to pray...about your prayer habits. Shop the "Mall of Keep the Heart" Rough Patches: Temporary Marital Tensions by Francie Taylor Minerals for the Mind-A Study of Romans 12 by Kathy Ashley Rate and Review the Show HERE Keep the Heart on Instagram Keep the Heart on Facebook Francie on Facebook

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0:00.0	Welcome to Teach Back Tuesday, where we play the most popular episodes from the previous season.
0:05.1	This episode, Prayer is Not Like Same Day Dry Cleaning, was very popular in February of 2022.
0:11.8	I wonder if it's because so many of us have a bit of impatience in prayer.
0:16.6	We get impatient because it's not a debit card transaction.
0:19.5	It's not a swipe of the card and we're done.
0:22.3	Why is it taking so long? And to us, so long can be anything even close to five minutes.
0:29.5	This episode should be helpful if you've been wrestling with the issue of prayer.
0:34.1	Let's listen again.
0:35.8	When you're trying to do something that's better for you, especially spiritually,
0:40.9	do you feel guilty when you can't achieve it? I think there's probably a lot of guilt floating around
0:47.4	about whether or not we pray enough. And honestly, I think that the measurement might be even faulty. What is enough prayer? If the Bible says pray without ceasing, what is that like?
1:04.2	Thank you for joining Keep the Heart for today's podcast with Francie Taylor. Francie is an author, conference speaker, and teacher.
1:12.5	She is passionate about teaching what to do with what we learn from God's Word. Now back to
1:19.3	today's valuable study. I love the example in Luke chapter 18 when Jesus was speaking.
1:31.3	And he said this.
1:32.4	It's Luke 18.
1:33.5	If you've got Bibles with you, you really want to follow along on this one.
1:36.8	But if you're walking or in the car, that's okay.
1:39.1	I'll read it.
1:40.0	But Luke 18 says this, and he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray
1:46.7	and not to faint, not to faint, not to lose heart, not to get worn out. Have you felt sometimes
1:54.3	like you've prayed yourself dry? Like there's nothing left in the well. Lord, I don't know what else to say. Have you ever said that to God?
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