Teaching | Fixed-Hour Prayer | Prayer E08 (From the Archive)
Practicing the Way with John Mark Comer
Practicing the Way
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🗓️ 16 March 2026
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
What does it mean to "pray continually"? John Mark explores Paul's command to pray without ceasing and introduces the ancient practice of fixed-hour prayer: pausing multiple times throughout the day to reorient your heart and mind toward God. He shows us how prayer is less about getting God to do something and more about moving through all of life in joyful, grateful relationship with Him.
Key Scripture Passages: 1 Thessalonians 5v16-18; Psalm 55v17; Daniel 6v1-10; John 15
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the John Malcolm a teachings podcast. My name is Yinka Dawson and I'm your host. |
| 0:10.1 | Each week we feature teachings by John Mark or other voices in the formation space. It's wonderful to have you with us. |
| 0:16.6 | We're concluding our prayer series, exploring different types of prayer and what it means to live |
| 0:21.5 | in relationship with God. Today, John Mark impacts what it means to pray continually and introduces |
| 0:27.3 | the ancient practice of fixed our prayer as a way to move through all of our life. Today, John Mark |
| 0:34.1 | impacts what it means to pray continually and introduces the ancient practice |
| 0:38.8 | of fixed hour prayer as a way to move through all of life in joyful, grateful awareness |
| 0:45.2 | of God's presence. |
| 0:47.2 | Here's John Mark. |
| 0:50.4 | Hey, everybody. |
| 0:51.4 | Great to see you. |
| 0:55.9 | Again, welcome. |
| 0:59.5 | If this is just your first or second time here, my name is John Mark. |
| 1:03.8 | And what I want to do tonight is tie off our prayer series, but tonight is a little |
| 1:09.3 | less of a sermon and more kind of, I don't know, |
| 1:12.8 | if you and I were to sit down for coffee in the coming week on a beautiful Portland day, |
| 1:18.9 | outdoor patio, whatever, and you were to ask me, hey, what are you learning right now in |
| 1:23.5 | your apprenticeship to Jesus? I just kind of want to, this is like the lecture version of what I |
| 1:28.8 | would say, okay? So that's it. Really very simple tonight, straightforward, and I don't think |
| 1:34.6 | I'll take too long at all. To start, if you have a Bible, please turn to one Thessalonians |
| 1:40.2 | chapter 5. There is a line in the New Testament that I just can't get out of my head for a year |
| 1:48.3 | or two now. And it's here in one Thessalonians, which is, if you've never read it before, |
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