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Welcome back to the grace church
members podcast. 

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My name is Ryan Donnell and I'm 
filling in for our host, Chris 

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rivers. 
And with each episode, we try to

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address a discipleship issue in 
a life of the Grace Church body 

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and discuss how to be more fully
devoted to God. 

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Now, a couple of weeks ago, I 
personally was interviewed on 

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this podcast to explore how 
prayer can serve as a kind of 

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barometer to what we really 
believe about God. 

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God the gospel and our salvation
and in thinking more about why 

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it's important to consider 
prayer and what it means for the

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life of a Christian. 
One of the things we discussed 

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was that it's not just something
to think about to study about or

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even listen to a podcast about, 
but specifically, it's a learned

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practice. 
So, prayer is something you have

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to do something. 
You have to live in to and 

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participate in. 
So we thought. 

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Okay. 
How could we use this podcast to

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help facilitate Practicing 
prayer and episode 12, we 

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discussed the Lord's Prayer in 
particular and so we thought 

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today we would use the Lord's 
Prayer as a guide for our prayer

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and to show how you can do that,
how you can experiment, you can 

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play with the Lord's Prayer. 
As your guide is kind of an 

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outline and yet prey naturally 
about the different things in 

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your life and the things that 
are on your own heart. 

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So today we're going to hear 
Jeff and again, Berg as he 

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guides Us through this powerful 
prayer. 

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The Lord Jesus gave us 
specifically from the Matthew 

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chapter 6 verses 9 through 13 
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He's going to introduce each 
phrase and then he's going to 

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have a little a short 
explanation about it and then 

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he'll pause and just give us 
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And so you fill in that preying 
on the heels of what he just 

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said. 
And then he'll pick up again 

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with the next phrase, short 
explanation, and prayer. 

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And so, during this time I just 
Invites, you to take this time, 

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enter into it, listen to what 
Jeff says, but then enter in, 

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with others. 
And with the Lord Jesus, and to 

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speak to him. 
Pray and let's learn how to 

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practice prayer, as we become 
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Hi, my name is Jeff and again 
Berg and I serve Grace Church 

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currently at our Taylor's 
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And what I'd like to do in this 
podcast episode is to work 

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through the Lord's Prayer 
together. 

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The prayer that Jesus gave his 
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teach us to pray and this prayer
is compact, it's short. 

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And yet at the same time, it is 
so rich and Powerful in, it's 

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got such big themes in it, it's 
a great way of orienting, our 

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hearts and our minds toward God,
As we pray, it's a great way to 

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start off praying because it 
aligns ourselves with God and 

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his kingdom and his ways. 
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work, we're going to go phrase 
by phrase through the Lord's 

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Prayer. 
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a little bit of explanation of 
that phrase and then some 

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direction and some prompts of 
what to pray about and then give

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space to pray after that. 
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gives us is Our Father in 
heaven, and immediately we see 

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the tension between a couple of 
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idea that God is in heaven which
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glorious and Majestic and far 
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But also that he is father that 
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relationship between he and us 
because of our belief in Jesus 

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Christ. 
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daughters and we can call out to
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And so we want to respond to 
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Halogen his character and who he
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that he is both great and 
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and Sovereign and far above us. 
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approachable and has made a way 
for us to be in relationship 

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with him and the scriptures. 
Make it clear that he is a good 

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father with good purposes for 
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So take this time to acknowledge
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then to thank him for that to 
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Go ahead and take this time to 
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The next phrase that Jesus gives
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our prayer here is that God's 
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His reputation would be 
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would be seen as special and 
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honored in that way. 
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about God's character and his 
name, and we can think about in 

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scripture how God often there 
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Names of God associated with, 
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He is the god who sees the God, 
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himself to Moses. 
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Keeping faithful God. 
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about some of these names that 
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God's character that way. 
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our lives would be lived in such
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character to a watching world 
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honored. 
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So pray that our lives would be 
in alignment with God's ways and

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that his name and his character 
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Jesus, then leads us to pray. 
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done on Earth as it is in 
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And what we're praying here is 
that life would be different 

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than it is. 
Now we know this world is full 

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of Injustice and evil and 
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Instead of those things, we 
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peace and alignment with God. 
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goodness his wisdom that life 
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And so, we were praying that all
things Thanks and every person 

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would bring themselves under the
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lead and direct. 
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will would be done that. 
Just as he is perfectly obeyed 

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in heaven, he would be perfectly
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So take this time to pray that 
today in the situations and 

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circumstances of your life in 
the decisions, you're making 

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that God's kingdom would come. 
That you would be surrendered to

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God's leadership in your life, 
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That we would be A obedient and 
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And not only are for ourselves 
but also for those around us and

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for the situations in our world,
take this time to pray for those

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things. 
at this point, we begin to Pivot

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from praying about who God is 
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will being done to the needs in 
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we do have needs, but we want 
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alignment with God's kingdom and
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So we're asking that God would 
would provide for our needs, so 

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that we can be active 
participants in God's greater 

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purposes and Mission and 
honoring his name. 

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And so we're coming to God as 
our father saying, Lord, would 

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you give us this day, our daily 
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Would you provide what we need 
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It's not limited to bread. 
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It's any of the physical needs. 
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We have that sustained us each 
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lives devoted and faithful to 
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So take this moment to think 
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commit that you're not going to 
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your own and out of your own 
resources, but you're going to 

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humbly trust and depend on God 
to provide for those needs in 

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your life today. 
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prayer about God's kingdom 
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on this Earth, that's going to 
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So we're praying. 
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forgive us our debts, as we also
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that means that we're both 
asking God for forgiveness were 

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acknowledging the faults in our 
lives, and we're confessing 

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those to them and asking for his
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but we're also committing to 
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the things. 
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I think it's helpful for us to 
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lives regularly to think about 
any things. 

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We may need to confess to God, 
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and seek forgiveness. 
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the, the ways that people may 
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And we need to be forgiven them 
with the same Grace that God has

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shown to us. 
So, take this time to ask for 

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forgiveness, take this time to 
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in God's grace to help you in 
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Jesus then instructs us to pray 
and lead us not into temptation,

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but Deliver Us from Evil. 
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acknowledgement that we live in 
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That is full of evil, chaos and 
death and destruction and so 

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we're praying that as we Face 
the hardship of living in this 

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world. 
As we Face trials that we would 

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not fall into temptation that we
would not succumb to Um to that.

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But instead that God's strength 
and Grace in our lives would 

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sustain us so that we can live 
Faithfully to him and represent 

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him well for his honor and His 
glory, take some time to pray 

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that as you face Temptation 
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God's strength and Leadership to
help you to escape that 

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Temptation. 
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It's likely that if you know 
this prayer from your upbringing

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that you're familiar with the 
phrase, for yours is the 

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kingdom, the power and the glory
forever and ever. 

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Amen may surprise you to know 
that this actually isn't found 

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in Matthew 6 where Jesus Is The 
Lord's Prayer to his disciples 

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but instead it's something that 
the church has added on over the

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years borrowing phrases from 
other parts of scripture just to

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give kind of a fitting 
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praying it in conjunction with 
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So I would invite us as we 
finish up this time to recognize

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that God's kingdom is eternal, 
that God's character is in his 

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power, and His glory are 
Eternal, that he calls us to 

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live for Eternal things and I'm 
just going to pray. 

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This prayer to wrap up our time.
By saying that final phrase and 

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I invite you to say it aloud or 
quietly with me for yours is the

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kingdom and the power and the 
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Amen. 
All right, well, as we wrap up, 

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today's guided prayer time. 
We want to thank you for joining

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us. 
I realized that listening to a 

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podcast episode. 
It sometimes can get narrowed 

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into an echo chamber or just an 
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It's not really shared with 
other people in your community 

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or your friends and so we really
want to extend what you've heard

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or learned or practiced here to 
other people. 

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And so we wanted to give you 
ideas for how to flush that out,

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how to use the potty. 
Cast as more than just a 

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privatized experience. 
So we really like to encourage 

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you to use this episode with 
somebody else. 

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You can share your takeaways 
with them. 

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Another way to do this, get with
your community group, or a 

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handful of guys or ladies in 
your group and just press play, 

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and let this guided prayer. 
Time guide you again through the

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prayer. 
Another way to do this would be 

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to just write out the different 
phrases of the Lord's Prayer on 

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a Prayer card. 
Leave it on the table. 

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Well, it's your home and then 
before your meal, or after your 

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meal, you could have a time 
where you're guiding your family

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roommates kids through the 
Lord's Prayer and then giving 

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them space to pray on the heels 
of these phrases. 

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And then of course, you know you
could use it just driving down 

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the road on your way to or from 
work or wherever you're going in

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the morning and let this become 
a rhythm certain number of days 

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a week or just first thing in 
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Let it be Begin with the Lord's 
Prayer so that you can begin to 

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learn this rhythm of living in 
his presence and doing that with

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the prayer that Jesus gave us. 
So these would be some great 

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ways to move towards the 
practice of Prayer in your 

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discipleship. 
If you do have any questions or 

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want to access additional 
resources, be sure to check out 

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the podcast page located in the 
show notes and we just want to 

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thank you for joining us today 
and we look forward to joining 

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you on the next episode.