Hi, friends. Welcome to another episode of That Sounds Fun, Spiritually Stronger. I'm your host, Annie F. Downs. I am so happy to be here with you today as we continue our series on prayer.

This episode wasn't originally scheduled to air today, but in the midst of so much hard

going on around us, the devastation from the winter storms, the chaos, pain, anger, and heartache

around the United States and the world. We move some things around

because this conversation felt like the exact right one to air today. I hope all of these

prayer episodes give you a picture of what prayer can do and why it matters. Something we say

at Crosspoint a lot is we don't only pray, but we pray first.

Today, you're going to be reminded from our guests that as you grow in prayer, you grow in

your ability to hear from God.

And that's my hope for all of us, that these disciplines that we are talking about would grow

our intimacy with him, our connection with him, and they would allow us to hear

his voice clearly, especially in a time when we need to be reminded that God has not left us,

that he is right here. He is listening and he is with us. So today on the show, I get to talk

with my friend Pete Gregg, who I love. You may remember Pete when he was on

our last prayer series here on that sounds fun. We'll link that for you in the show notes and on the

substack, spiritually stronger.com. He's an author and the founder of the 24-7 prayer movement.

Y'all have heard me reference the daily devotional Lectio 365 so many times.

And Pete's also the co-host of that and the founder of that. I love it. I love it. I love it.

Get it on your phone. Start listening to it. There's a morning and afternoon and evening. We'll talk

all about it today. Today we're talking about Pete's recent three-month sabbatical and how time with God

and prayer looked different for him and his wife during those times and how it shifted

since and what they learned from it and how prayer impacts our relationship with God.

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