The Struggle of Prayer

Matt, Derek, and Alastair talk about the struggles and difficulties of praying.

Matt, Derek, and Alastair discuss the struggles and misconceptions surrounding prayer: how prayer becomes burdensome, prayer as experiencing God in a veiled way, and what petitions in prayer should we not ask for? All of this and more.

Resources mentioned:

The Possibility of Prayer: Finding Stillness with God in a Restless World by John Starke

Timestamps

0:00
LIVE SHOW ANNOUNCEMENT
1:00
The struggle of prayer
5:50
The struggle of solitude in prayer
8:20
How prayer becomes immensely burdensome
13:28
Experiencing God in prayer in a veiled way
15:50
The necessity and sustainability of meager prayers
18:52
Intercession and petition in prayer
21:50
The movements of prayer given through examples in the gospels
24:06
Intercession as the highest form of love
29:52
What petitions should we not ask for?
37:19
How to pray for others well when they ask for it
41:18
The Collect of the Day

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