Do you know why prayer is really so important?

Dave Butt says not many people do.

Basically, especially here in the United States, though I think it's true in many, many other nations.

We have a bunch of people, Christians who believe in prayer, and they know it's important, but they don't know why.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss-Walgam for Wednesday, May 4th, 2016.

Do you ever feel like you just don't know how to pray? I know I do. Yesterday, Dave and Kim Butch shared ways that all of us can pray more effectively.

I was so encouraged by this conversation. For instance, they shared the idea of praying scripture back to the Lord.

Well, all of us can do that with just an open Bible and an open heart.

If you missed part one of the program, you can hear the audio or read the transcript at

revive our hearts.com. All this year, we're calling women to cry out to the Lord in fervent,

earnest prayer. Let's listen as Kim and Dave Butts continue to help us to know how to pray

more effectively. Kim picks up on this idea of praying scripture back to the Lord.

There's also a really practical, another really, really practical reason for doing praying scripture.

How many of you struggle to pray out loud? You don't have to raise your hands.

Or if you're married and you and your husband are trying to pray together and one of you struggles to pray out loud, if you read scripture together out loud to the Lord, you're praying

together. And it not only has this set so many people free that struggle with praying out loud,

then all of a sudden you can say, I had it, I actually have a good story.

There's an older lady in a church that we attended that all her life, she had not prayed out loud.

And I had a group of women, and I had them in groups of four.

And she said right off the bat, she goes, I'm not praying out loud.

If you want us to pray out loud, I'm not going to do it.

You know, she was just, I'm like, okay.

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