Teaching | Fixed-Hour Prayer | Prayer E04
Practicing the Way with John Mark Comer
Practicing the Way
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🗓️ 4 March 2022
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
We are all called to spend our lives abiding (John 15:4). Paul called it "praying without ceasing;" Brother Lawrence called it “practicing the presence of God." Jesus claimed that there is a strong connection between abiding and joy. In this teaching, John Mark gives us key insights to practicing this joy-filled lifestyle. First, John Mark challenges us to slow down, open our lives to the flow of the spirit, and practice the presence of God. Then he shows how the practice of fixed-hour prayer can be an effective tool to unlock this lifestyle. By pressing into the discipline of fixed-hour prayer, we can open our hearts to the joy and peace that Jesus promises.
Key Scripture Passages: 1 Thessalonians 5v16-18; Daniel 6v1-28
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the John Mark Comer Teaching's Podcast by Practicing the Way. |
| 0:05.0 | This teaching was first given at Bridgetown Church in Portland, Oregon |
| 0:10.0 | as a part of the prayer practice. |
| 0:20.0 | Hey everybody, everybody. |
| 0:21.0 | Great to see you. Hey everybody. |
| 0:25.0 | Great to see you. |
| 0:29.0 | Again, welcome. |
| 0:32.0 | If this is just your first or second time here, my name is John Mark, I'm one of the leaders here, but I have been on vacation for three long fantastic weeks. |
| 0:41.0 | It's great to be back, it was also great to not be here, but it's great, not going to lie, no, it's great to be back. |
| 0:48.0 | I am a creature of habits. Every year we basically do the exact same thing. We go to the beach for two weeks, |
| 0:54.0 | a friend's house, and then we go over camping in eastern Oregon with my Bridgetown community, and I just love it. I feel like I'm in a |
| 1:00.7 | fantastic place right now in my soul. |
| 1:03.8 | And what I want to do tonight is tie off our prayer series, |
| 1:08.3 | but tonight is a little less of a sermon |
| 1:11.2 | and more kind of, I don't know, if you and I were to sit down for coffee in the coming |
| 1:16.5 | week on a beautiful Portland summer day outdoor patio whatever and you were to ask me hey what, what are you learning, you know, fresh off a vacation |
| 1:25.2 | a few weeks to kind of depressurize and take a long hard look at your life? |
| 1:29.8 | What are you learning right now in your apprenticeship to Jesus? I just kind of want to, this is like |
| 1:34.4 | the lecture version of what I would say. Okay? So that's it, really very simple tonight, |
| 1:39.8 | straightforward and I don't think I'll take too long at all. |
| 1:43.7 | To start, if you have a Bible, please turn to 1 Thessalonians, chapter 5. |
| 1:49.2 | There is a line in the New Testament that I just can't get out of my head for a year or two now and it's here in |
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