Dangerous Faith

#54: Dangerous Life– How Should We Pray?

October 09, 2023 Nathan
Dangerous Faith
#54: Dangerous Life– How Should We Pray?
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The Dangerous Life Team talks about what a healthy prayer life looks like. What should we pray about? How should we talk to God?

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Speaker 1:

Welcome to another dangerous faith show. My name is Nate Williams. With me, we have Mackenzie, mariah, chloe and Zeke, and so I'm excited to talk with my friends about prayer. Prayer is one of those things where we're always told we need to do it right Pray or, as first Thessalonians, five or 17 states, pray without ceasing the words of Paul, but we're not always taught how to pray. What should that look like? So got the team together, the dangerous life team, and that's what we'll be talking about today. What does a healthy prayer life look like? So glad to have all y'all with me, so we're going to jump right in. When you think of prayer and how it should be done, just what comes to mind for you. Anyone want to start us off? What does prayer look like?

Speaker 2:

Actually, the first thing I was going to talk about was the verse you already said first, Thessalonians five, 17.

Speaker 2:

Yes ma'am, pray without ceasing, and to me that kind of looks like you don't have to be on your knees with your head bowed, eyes closed, hands together. You don't have to be in that position to pray. You can literally be walking to your class or walking at work or wherever. You can just stop and pray and you don't have to close your eyes Like sometimes if I'm at work and I'm with someone who I might have to have patience with. I'm like Lord, please give me patience to talk to this person, and just it can be as simple as that. Just one sentence doesn't have to be a long, drawn out thing, it can be really simple.

Speaker 1:

That's important. So it doesn't necessarily physically have to be any certain way. What I always share. When I talk about prayer when I was little, it always because I was taught the whole when you pray, close your eyes, bow your head, and I always thought, well, I can never pray when I'm driving because that's dangerous. If I have to close my eyes to pray, obviously I have to wait till I'm outside of the car. But then I realized when I got older and I was actually driving, oh, I can pray with my eyes open. So something small, something silly, just doesn't matter the posture. Any other thoughts on how to pray?

Speaker 3:

Before we move on, what do y'all think about that? What's the? What do you think about praying with your head bowels and your hand, your head bowed and your hands together? Do you think that's obviously? We've said it's not necessary, but do you think there's any benefit to that? If so, what is it?

Speaker 4:

I think it's like reverence or respect aspect really, and maybe seen more formal, like obviously in church it's normal to do that. But yeah, I wouldn't say it's a necessity, because anywhere you are you are able to pray.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, and I think the part of getting on your knees, I think that is kind of like just shows how humble you are to be talking to God, and like your eyes being closed would be kind of like limiting the distractions around you so that you could just solely focus on this one thing.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, for sure, Ezekiel. What do you?

Speaker 3:

think. I think I would agree and you're the history nerd so you can tell us. But whenever I think about it, it's same as how they're saying it, like it's a way of humbling yourself before God and the sense of like if you were to go to a king medieval times, like what you do is you get down on your face and plead for mercy Because you're in the lowest position where you can't defend yourself, you can't do anything and you're acknowledging this person has power over you and that they have control over what happens. And for me, I see it the same way. With God of God's in control. I'm coming to him with a request and I'm going to admit that I can't do anything.

Speaker 3:

I'm not in a. It's hard to be what's the word I'm looking for? It's hard to be prodful whenever I'm on my hands and knees. Praying Doesn't mean I do it every time, like if I'm in the car. I can't do that. That's not very safe, that's true. There's situations where it doesn't help. It doesn't, it's not possible. But I think it's a good habit to form, not legalistically, but just to remind ourselves and get us in the minds of who it is we're talking to. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1:

I think you're exactly right, zeke. Our posture affects our mindset, so closing our eyes helps. Sometimes. Bowing our heads, holding our hands together all that can prepare our soul for a time of prayer. Now, any other thoughts? There we're going to move to content next, what we actually pray about. Any other thoughts? Mackenzie?

Speaker 5:

I think, going back to what Chloe said of just there's different ways to pray, I think it's a relationship builder. You know it's like an open conversation, so there's multiple different ways you can pray. It can look like going quietly into a room and reading your word and praying as you read the word and meditate on it. It can be just throughout the day, just like having that open conversation with God. It's not even always bringing a request to him. It's more of just like inviting him into everything and even with your spouse, like you can come before God with your spouse and pray and involve him in that too. I think it's just more of. It can look different, but it's the same concept of just talking with God and being with him and building that relationship.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, and about the like relationship aspect, I think also it's important for us to realize, like all the people we're on a relation, we have a relationship with on earth, we have to communicate with those people if we want to keep that relationship strong. So it's kind of the same with God, like if we don't talk to him and like make it a priority to spend time with him, how is that relationship supposed to be strong?

Speaker 3:

exactly right, yeah, yeah, I think if I was to try and define, if you can put like a one I can't really wrap it up in a bow and put in like one neat definition. But I think, to get started, which just kind of be repeating what we've been saying of like at minimal it's a, let's say, if you're new at praying, like you're not a Christian, or you're a new Christian minimally, it starts out typically as a request to God, you're requesting something from him. Typically it'll be like, hey, you know, before you become Christian. It might be, hey, will you save me, will you enter into my life? After that might be like, hey, I'm going through this struggle, will you help me with this?

Speaker 3:

But I think as we develop and this will get into the next thing we're talking about, like what does it look? Like, like a healthy version of that would be it's not only a request but it's a form of worship and praise, like think about any other conversations we have, like if I just came to Nate and like kept making requests of him, that's not a relationship, he's just my therapist. So like the same way with God. He calls us his father. Well, if we talk to our regular father and just go to for help, then he's going about. This is a relationship you just want stuff from me same with our heavenly father, like it's a relationship like we're acknowledging who he is and that he's a part of our life, not just someone that would go to like a magic genie to get our wishes yeah, yeah, all that's important that we don't just ask God for stuff and we talked about that with healthy friendships a couple weeks ago that we don't, with our friends, just want to ask things of our friends, because that's not a good, good relationship there.

Speaker 1:

Now let's move to the content of our prayer, because I know sometimes we've all had these moments where we know we're supposed to pray but we don't know what to say. So, in your experience, when that happens, what's what's helped you and you're not quite sure what to say. Well, what do you do at that point? Does anyone want to? About to call you Mackenzie Mariah?

Speaker 4:

um, I think well, first of all, usually I like to start off with just like thankfulness, like thinking, uh, you know, just with what you have, or maybe what your situation is, and just like, uh, thanking God, reflecting on things that you maybe don't day to day, like, uh, you know, I'm thankful that my car is working this week you know, maybe it wasn't a few months ago and now it is and just little things like that. I think gratefulness should be a huge aspect of prayer before any request. Really, in my opinion, uh, just because I don't know, that's, we should be thankful to him that's a great way to start thankfulness uh Zeke yeah, I think it goes back to what we're talking about with the head, bow and hands.

Speaker 3:

It's getting whenever we're praying. It should be a it's sure our first thing shouldn't be the request. Once we become more mature in our faith, it shouldn't be all right, I'm going to pray because I need XYZ. It should be God, you are powerful, you are mighty. You praise him, speak to him like you would if you were actually worshiping the God of the universe, who's capable of doing all these things. And then it's also like talking to him, like talking through your pain, talking through your grief, talking to him like a person and then like, at the end of it, you can make requests.

Speaker 3:

That's how I tend to, if I'm doing it properly. That's how I feel like it's a good way to do it, not that you have to. It's just for me. Whenever I acknowledge who he is and what he's done and I'm thankful for the things he's done, it makes it, it modifies my request to where I ask for different things, I realized that you know what that request wasn't. That's not the request I want to make anymore, because I realized who he is and I'd have to go into more specifics, but that's kind of my journal outline on it yeah, yeah, that's good, mackenzie, I know you.

Speaker 5:

I'm not sure he had something to say there yeah, um, I think about in Matthew 6 how Jesus kind of talks about prayer and he gives us an outline of the Lord's prayer where he first, like you said, acknowledges our Father who are in heaven, like how it be your name, of how sacred you are, that you are God, that I'm talking to the Creator of the universe, that I'm talking to my Creator, and then he goes into your kingdom, your kingdom come, your will be done, kind of aligning with him of Lord, I'm coming to you and ultimately I trust you and your will and I may be asking these things, like you said, but if it doesn't align with your will, like ultimately, your will be done, and then it kind of goes through give us our daily bread, you know, and he gets into that conversation.

Speaker 5:

I don't think before that he talks about how prayer shouldn't be empty phrases, like how we shouldn't just add to it so much, especially when we pray out loud in front of other people of you know where it's all for, just for show, but that it's humbling and that it's just real relationally talking to God. I think it should be the same you know, whether you're praying in your mind, in your head, and whether you're praying out loud. But I just love how I kind of go back to Matthew 6 a lot and just go through that order of acknowledging who he is, thanking him for what he's done, thanking him for what he will do whether that looks like what I want or what I don't want, you know, it doesn't really matter, as long as it's in his will and then just kind of like having that communion with him and talking to him.

Speaker 1:

Yeah for sure, and we can keep going through the Lord's Prayer there. So Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread so God meets our needs, our everyday needs, and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against others. So we're always in need of forgiveness. Now we know Jesus has paid it all, but we need to always come back to the cross and acknowledge that grace and forgiveness that we already have, even as we continually mess up. God has forgiven us, but we need to bask in that forgiveness. Let's see what else. So lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.

Speaker 1:

I think that's important that I was talking about this a couple days ago. What is today? Today is a Sunday. I think this may have been on a Friday.

Speaker 1:

I was talking to people that we want the strength to say no in tempting situations. So if there's a temptation, we want to be able to say no to it. But what's even better than saying no to a temptation? Does anyone know? It's not even having to say no because you avoided the situation itself. So it's like with God hey, give me the strength to say no if I have to, but better than that, don't even let me be in the situation at all.

Speaker 1:

And then the praise at the end that some scholars think was added on later at the end of the Matthew Lord's Prayer, for Thine is the Kingdom, the Power and the Glory. So people aren't sure if that was in the original version, but it's still beautiful. It's still a beautiful praise, but anyways, just walking through the Lord's Prayer, Mackenzie, I'm glad you brought that up. That's a beautiful thing to do. I need help with one thing, though. This is something I struggle with. We talk about God in two ways at least. One is our Father, and we like that image. Depending on if you had a good earthly Father, God is our Father. But then we also talk about God as our King. I don't know about you, but if I talk to a King one way, I'm going to talk to my Father a different way. How do we reconcile that? Maybe overly formal versus too informal? Do y'all have any thoughts on just what tone should we take when we pray?

Speaker 3:

I think that's kind of the one. I'm constantly overwhelmed with the beauty of Christianity, and that's not something you typically find in engineers. We don't really get bogged down with that beauty and art. That stuff's lame, gross. But for me, over the past two years I've just been again and again overwhelmed with that kind of stuff and what I would say to that is it's both. And he's the King because he's all powerful and he has control over all. But he also tells us that he's our Father because he's loving and caring, so he's the best of both worlds. If he was just a Father and he cared for us but he wasn't able to do anything, that would suck. And if he was a King but he didn't care about us, that would suck. But as Christians we have both. We get all of it. We don't get just one or the other.

Speaker 1:

That's a great way of putting that. Well done. So then I'll move on to. Sometimes we'll have dry periods in our Christian walk where God feels distant. Or we go to pray and there's no motivation to pray. We're like, oh, why do I have to do this? I don't always see God answering my prayers. So in your experience, as you've gone through maybe dry spells and praying, what did you do? Did anything help? Chloe?

Speaker 2:

Yeah, I think I've honestly struggled with that for a long time. It's really easy to get caught in those dry periods because life can just feel so consistent and mundane and it's just like, well, nothing's happening. But I think something that's helped me that I started trying to do recently is when I first start praying, I try to acknowledge who God is.

Speaker 4:

Like.

Speaker 2:

God, you are the creator of the world, you are the Redeemer. You sent your Son to die for me, and that kind of sets everything into place.

Speaker 2:

Of like okay, this is who I'm talking to, so everything else that follows needs to be honoring and glorifying to him. And then from there I can kind of move on to a place of like, I'm like, so I'm in such a lowly state compared to you and I'm not like I don't deserve your mercy and grace. But then I can move to thankfulness, like, but thank you for giving me that anyways.

Speaker 1:

Yes, thankfulness was important. Going back to Mariah's comment, gratefulness, you can. You can never go wrong with that Zeke.

Speaker 3:

I have another question that kind of goes along with this what are some helpful? I'm just going to call it habits, because I can't think of a better word. Practices would be another one. What are some helpful practices that if y'all have found for prayer? I'll give an example while we are thinking. One for me would be in the sense of sometimes I will not feel like getting on my hands and knees. I don't always like we talked about before, but then something I've found is that whenever I'm thinking like that, my first thought is well, if cross can hang on a cross, for me the least I can do is get on my hands and knees, and I don't do it every time. I'm not perfect, I'm not Christ, but like that's just one way where I can serve him, cause he served me. So just getting in that mindset Posture.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, mackenzie.

Speaker 5:

For me, one thing that's really helped is writing down my prayers and going back and looking at them.

Speaker 5:

I'm a very like visual person and I do love to write down things, but in some of the moments of my life where there is not much motivation or maybe he is put more in the back of my mind and I'm not like aware of them more is when I just open up my journal and I go back to random like literally just open it up, go back to a random day and just look at what I prayed for and 90% of the time it's either been answered or I have peace about it or there's hope for it, like.

Speaker 5:

And it brings me back to that posture of like he's in control and I know I know God, like I know him when we were talking about the King and the father. When we think about him being the king, we know God's character, like he's not just a king, he's the king. He has the heart of our father too. So when we're talking to the king, like we know him, you know Like we are. Hisit says we're his heirs, like we are his sons and daughters too, heirs to the throne through Jesus. So I think that's kind of beautiful too, but practically writing them down and even praying out loud as if I'm talking to somebody else, because I am, you know, it's not a thing of where it's just, you know, silently it's acknowledging Lord, you can hear me whether I pray in my head or out loud, like you're there listening, always.

Speaker 3:

Yeah that's a good point. Something our pastor brought up not that long ago was that with other religions God is this eternal. He's eternal in our religion he's this being that's far, far away. That sometimes, and with Christians sometimes, we think that way too and we can feel like God's far away and he can't hear our prayers. Like that we have to pray up to him. But what Christian actually teaches is he's right beside us. So, like you're saying, we can talk to him like a person and we don't have to worry. Even if it's in our head or if we're speaking out loud, he hears us no matter what. There's no communication problems when it comes to him.

Speaker 1:

Yeah.

Speaker 4:

Yeah, I think that's a really, really good concept to remember, because sometimes it can feel like that, if you feel like, oh man, he's just so above us and it's just not relatable, but if you are remembering that he is beside you and having things like the prayer journal. I really like that you brought that up, because I journal very frequently. I think that's very important, like I don't know habit I guess to have, especially if you have to look back on and to just also, even when you're looking back on things, I think sometimes you can even be like wow, I prayed for that and it's so insignificant once you look back on it. In a sense, sometimes or maybe the opposite it's like wow, I needed that and that happened.

Speaker 2:

Thankful to him. Yeah, and honestly, I need to get better at doing the prayer journaling, because it's something that I would love to look back and see how faithful God is and answering his prayer or, like you said, giving you peace. But I think just the fact that we can talk to God is such a miracle because, like I said, he's a creator of the world. He literally just spoke the world into existence and the fact that we can even talk to him is just kind of blows my mind sometimes. So sometimes I just have to thank him for that.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, I think if you were looking for the most practical thing that you could do, that would. I'm gonna say every time I'm just saying my experience is worked to where a prayer journal, like we've been talking about, that's one of the most practical things you can do. That has been the most helpful for me. I don't know what that looks like in your life, but here's my experience. It does what we talked about in the sense of I can look back not to keep score and like, oh well, god answered this one. He did answer this one, but it's like I'm in this dry season. If I'm in a dry season, then I'm like you know what. I don't know if God is faithful. I don't know if he's stays true to his word. I don't know if he actually answers.

Speaker 3:

For if I've ever having those doubts, I can go look back and, like you know what, I think that and my emotions may feel that way, but History shows otherwise. History shows time. Even in scripture we see time and time again he's been faithful, even when we're not, even whenever our emotions go crazy for that reason. But also the second reason that I think gets looked over is Whenever we're pray, if we have like a prayer journal in the sense that when someone asked me to pray for them and I'm keeping a journal like I should be I don't do it, well, right now, but whenever I do, I put that my prayer journal and, as I pray, that not and I make my request, I go down through those prayers and that's helpful because that way, whenever I see that person again, first thing I think of is that prayer that I've been praying every single day and I'm like, hey, how is so-and-so, how is the situation going on?

Speaker 3:

And then that can, be honestly, one of the best witnesses for us to non-Christians, like if someone doesn't know Christ, and we pray for them after they've asked us to. And we come back like weeks later and we're like, hey, how is this going? Oh, you remember that? Oh, yeah, I pray. And they're like we're like, yeah, we pray about that every single day. Like, oh, I didn't know, you took it that serious, like I do because I care about you, and that can lead open doors that weren't open previously.

Speaker 1:

No, for sure.

Speaker 5:

I think going along with that too, an aspect that maybe doesn't come straight to our mind is Intercessory prayer and the importance of it. The Bible says that Jesus Intercedes for, on our behalf and talks to God about us, and that gives us that model, too, of going to God for others. So, yeah, we you know we talk about it a lot in Sunday school, of any prayer requests or anything like that. But there's a difference between, you know, praying that once but then Joining that person side by side and going to God, going to the throne and, and it says, plead your case before God. And he has. You know he loves to hear from us and he loves to. You know, if it's in his will, grant that. You know he's a good God, he's a loving God, he's a giving God and he loves to. Let us be a part of that, if that makes sense.

Speaker 1:

Yeah yeah.

Speaker 3:

One other thing I want to add, not to the prayer journal, but two things that I found that are helpful. Where did my voice come?

Speaker 1:

I'm just emotional because the deep we're talking about I mean all right, you know, now you believe me.

Speaker 3:

Okay, something that I've done, that I Pray I've had answered that I try to pray fairly frequently is that when we're praying, we're talking to the God, who knows everything and Created everything, as we said, so we're capable of him Revealing things to us that we aren't capable of seeing on our own. And what I mean by that is like I Frequently go back to asking like, hey, show me what you want me to know, show me if there's someone on your radar that should be on my radar, make that aware to me. Show me that person, give me opportunities to talk to that person. And then also, when it comes to send my life, show me the blind spots. So, for example, one that happened literally last night and he does this all the time with me now and it's annoying sometimes, but, like I think, overall it's a good thing.

Speaker 3:

It's like I was driving home last night and there's a car who had their bright lights on. I flash my lights to tell him that, undo it, they didn't do it. I was like how dare they do? In my head I'm thinking how dare they do something like that? They should know better. 20 minutes later go by and I realize I've been passing car with my bright lights on.

Speaker 5:

I'm like Okay, I see.

Speaker 3:

I see what you're trying to tell me now and stuff like that, literally all the time. It can be the most small sort of things. I'm just like you're right, I'm not that great. Whenever I put, whenever I hold a standard other people, I don't meet that standard, even if it's my own standard, much less the standard that Jesus gives. So I need, like we talked about, I need to be forgiven time and time again, absolutely right.

Speaker 4:

So, zeke, I you mentioned something that so obviously you know. We all know that God is all-knowing All the time. So what would you say to someone that says, why should I pray, he knows everything already? To me, that's a very important question.

Speaker 3:

I think that's a really good question. It's one that I've struggled with before and I don't know that I've come to a final answer on it. Nate may have his final answer. I think the place where I'm at right now is we have to remember what prayer is for. What's the purpose? So, yes, on the one hand, if prayer is for God, then it's pointless because God doesn't need our prayers, he doesn't need anything from us. He's completely perfect as himself. But if prayer is something he does, allows us to do For ourselves, that he grants, he blesses us with, then it benefits us, not him. He gets no extra benefit, like he doesn't need us. But by praying we get to see what God sees. Sometimes we get to talk to an all-powerful being. We get to Be a little bit more like him every single day. And if it has to be important because Jesus himself did it, the God man himself did it. So, even if we don't have an answer, we know it's important.

Speaker 2:

It's kind of like is our chance to like praise him and worship him. Like it. Prayers not just like sending your request to God and be like Well, I hope you answered these, but it's just like a time that we can actually like talk to God. And also, I think prayer can be a part of that plan that he has like sometimes Someone that's praying and praying praying for like five plus years. Sometimes that's part of it, like that builds our relationship with God and he's working in that prayer through us.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, I think y'all y'all covered it pretty much I'm Mackenzie.

Speaker 5:

Yeah, something our pastor says a lot that I kind of hold to and keeps me Grounded to is you can pray to God and say Lord, I know you've already answered this prayer even before I pray it, which means, like it may not be how I want it to be. It may not be how I think it'll be, but I know, like you're before time and after time, like you've already done it, I don't have to worry about if it's gonna get done either. Like I know you're in control. I don't know what it looks like, but I can trust in that and I think that's really beautiful too.

Speaker 3:

You We've talked about a lot of positives. I'd like to add in something that I found that I do. That's not good and how. I've kind of, and y'all can tell me if y'all had something similar or something different. That's like this I fall into this routine sometimes of whenever I pray I will say the same Phrases or sentences over and over, just calls. Like I'm in auto, I call it autopilot mode, I just pray and just to pray, and I'm just saying what I'm Naturally think. I don't actually think through my prayers, it's just whatever comes to mind and I think nothing inherently wrong. I think that we should be more intentional, though. Kind of back to the best friends before, like if you go to your best friend, you say the same thing every time. It's just weird, it's awkward, like they're like you realize you're saying the same thing every time you talk to me, right? I'm like okay, well, that's cuz I don't want to talk to you, I'm just doing it cuz I have to and they're like oh okay, cool, then don't talk to me.

Speaker 3:

But I mean for me, like some of the words I would say it's like you know, I think you for this day, thank you for all that you've done, and those are good things. There's nothing wrong with saying those. But, like, I want to actually mean it when I say it, I don't want to just say it, just to say it. So if I'm ever in that situation where I'm saying the phrases that I notice I say a lot, I immediately say Lord, please forgive me, I'm gonna start over. I just start over from there.

Speaker 3:

You know it's what I've been doing and then start fresh think that brings up something important.

Speaker 1:

We are all Protestants and so we value you In large measure. We value extemporaneous prayers, prayers off the cuff, prayers Just when we think it, we pray it, whereas, whereas some other traditions will do more, already written prayers from other people long ago, maybe saints, maybe the historical figures. I think that's something we could also do that. Yeah, we do want to be careful, zeke, you're exactly right. We don't want to say the same thing over and over again. Jesus talks about that, a little bit about that. But also there can be a lot of pressure every time to say something new, to say something Different, to have a new phrasing you've never used before. So I think one thing we could do better as Protestants I know I'm from a non-denominational church and y'all are from a A Baptist church one thing we could do in our situation is get prayer books.

Speaker 1:

There are people that have written out prayers for covering a wide range of situations, so that there's not this pressure. I'm not saying only use those, because you can use your own Voice as well, but just on the days when you might not have something new to say, you could use those prayers and genuinely mean it. Another example is praying the Psalms. I often talk about that at one point or another. We had a young adult Bible study and I remember doing a lesson on prayer that David and the other Psalmists they covered a wide range of situations and they have words that we can use ourselves. So pray the Psalms, pray the scriptures. That's also helpful as well. Any other Anything else y'all want to talk about that?

Speaker 1:

When it comes to praying, when it's difficult to pray, yeah, one other thing I want to know is that we also have Jesus who intercedes for us, and the Holy Spirit who helps us pray. So in those moments when, let's say, we've gone through a tragedy, something traumatic, and we don't have a lot of words, there's a comfort knowing that, that the Holy Spirit is praying on our behalf With words that we might not fully understand, but that that's what's happening. So I think that's special as well, and I guess after that, is there anything related to prayer that y'all want to cover as a so I want to end on this.

Speaker 3:

I think I'm done after this. But we have verses in the Bible that talk about prayer a lot of them, and Obviously more than we can cover in this episode. So like, for example, take John 14 13, where Jesus says that anything we ask in his name Will be given to us. That seems like okay. Well, I've asked for plenty of things. God hasn't given it to me.

Speaker 1:

Million dollars.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, what gives? I think those are good questions that have good answers. I think if anyone has those kind of questions, they would send them to us through social media or whatever. We'd love to do episode on that, whether it's prayer or other questions.

Speaker 1:

Absolutely. Y'all can follow us on social media. We have a Facebook page, instagram account, twitter account Dangerous faith there's that little jumping person logo. You can look for that. Yeah, dangerous faith that you can DM us. You can Write a comment. Just let us know if you have any questions and if we get enough questions from listeners. We can have a mailbag type mailbag or mailbox what do they?

Speaker 4:

call this.

Speaker 1:

Mailbox there we go no bag mailbox.

Speaker 1:

Whatever you get what I'm trying to say with just covering your question, so it'll reach out. There's also YouTube as well, comments, and then we can. We can do that too, but anyways, anything else or I'll take us home. All right, friends, again, this is Nate Williams, here with Mackenzie. Mariah, chloe and Zeke always love talking to them and we'll have more episodes as the weeks go by. So keep on checking out Our podcast, our YouTube channel, like share, subscribe, let a friend know. I think we talk about a lot of good topics and we want to hear your thoughts. But anyways, y'all have a good day and we'll talk with you later.

Speaker 4:

You.

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