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Ask, Seek, Knock (Silence and Persistence) ft. Pete Greig

Praying Like Monks, Living Like Fools Podcast

CHAPTER

The Power of Prayer

When we pray, we are praying into those three variables, all influencing what's happening with our prayers. And sometimes prayer involves waiting in ways that we ultimately decide are good. Other times, waiting becomes incredibly painful because we are still in that place of waiting and then what I was longing for didn't see come to pass despite the fact that I was praying. Jesus explicitly told certain parables to say that we must keep praying and not give up. There is a merit in Frank Laobach, the great educationist missionary. The only missionary ever featured on an American postage stamp. It seems pointless and often praying these prayers again and again. But eventually if you keep doing it, one appears

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