Teaching | Prayer Training | Prayer E07
Practicing the Way with John Mark Comer
Practicing the Way
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🗓️ 9 March 2026
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
How do we actually pray for others? This week, Alex Rettman offers a practical training on prayer ministry. He covers the theology behind effective prayer and then walks through a simple three-step method: interview, listen to what God is doing, and say or do what He's saying or doing.
Key Scripture Passages: John 5v19; John 8v28; Zephaniah 3v17; Matthew 7v11; Matthew 8v2; Romans 8; 1 Corinthians 12; 1 Corinthians 14v3; 1 Timothy 2v4
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the John Markalman Teachings podcast. |
| 0:07.0 | My name is Yinka Dawson and I'm your host. |
| 0:10.0 | Each week we feature teachings by John Mark or other voices in the formation space. |
| 0:14.0 | It's wonderful to have you with us. |
| 0:16.0 | As we come to the end of our prayer series, |
| 0:19.0 | we get to hear again from Alex Retman, |
| 0:21.6 | senior leader of St. Hill Church in Newburgh, Oregon. |
| 0:25.4 | If you've enjoyed Alex's contribution to this series, |
| 0:28.1 | you could find more of his teaching on the Saints Hill Church podcast. |
| 0:32.4 | This week, Alex gets practical. |
| 0:35.0 | How do we actually pray and minister to one another? Here's Alex. |
| 0:42.3 | Hey, so we have been in a series on prayer, and it's been about, I was thinking about this |
| 0:47.1 | morning. It's been about eight weeks. And tonight we're moving on. And so to do that, |
| 0:52.5 | go ahead and turn your Bibles to John Chapter 5, all the way in the |
| 0:56.0 | New Testament. John Chapter 5. If you're unfamiliar with the Bible, there's an Old Testament, |
| 1:03.5 | and then there's a New Testament. In the front of your Bible, there's a table of contents that can |
| 1:08.1 | kind of help direct you. John is the fourth book in the New Testament, |
| 1:12.4 | and it's the story of Jesus' life. One of the ways that I like to think about it is that it's the |
| 1:17.4 | documentary. There are documentaries about the life of Jesus. So we're going to be in John |
| 1:21.3 | chapter 5 in verse 19. This is what he says. So Jesus said to them, truly, truly, I say to you, the son can do nothing |
| 1:34.0 | of his own accord, but only what he sees the father doing. Interesting. Check this out. For whatever the father does, the son does likewise. |
| 1:47.0 | Okay. Turn to the right in your Bible just a few pages to John chapter 8, verse 28. |
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