Welcome to the Crazy Love Podcast. For too many of us, we have this vague sense of guilt

for not praying as much as we should. But do we have any idea how insane it is that

through Jesus we can talk to the Creator of the universe at any time? In this classic

message, Francis walks us through the simple story of the persistent widow and the wonder

of believing that we have God's ear when we pray.

Does it get old to you?

Uh, praying for people?

I mean, do you, uh, you know, what we just did, do you still see that as a privilege?

I mean, is it still a, I mean, do you ever just stop and think, so just now, as I was speaking,

I wasn't just talking to the ear, but that the God of the universe, the Creator of everything

actually listened to me that I had his ear. You know, I mean, if I came up to you today

and say, hey, you guys, this week, I spoke to, you know, to George Bush, you know, or to

Michael Jackson or whoever, you go, no way. How do you get him to talk to you or whatever?

And yet we're talking about the God of the universe. I mean, does that, does that blow

your mind that I just spoke to God, the, the creator of everything, looking down at this

ball, the Bible says he's, he's stooped over and listened and he observed what was going

on in this room. Does that, does that blow your mind at all? Or is it just, you know, he prayed?

You know, for, for those of us who've been Christians for a while, this can become like this,

this thing that we no longer see as a privilege is just something we do.

Is it still an honor to you? I mean, can you imagine what life would be like without prayer?

I mean, since some of you have been Christians for so long that you, you don't even think this

way anymore. But what if from here on out, you could no longer talk to God? Did you just stop and

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