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welcome back to the disciples journal i'm your host darren starks and this is where you learn to walk

with jesus every single day i'm really excited to get into this. This conversation, or what I want to share with you,

was actually swacked by a moment that I had this morning. I have a men's group that I host, and we have

prayer calls each and every morning, and I was basically speaking to them because the purpose of these prayer calls,

of course, is us to come together, intercede for one another, our families, our communities,

bring our requests to the table, but also to help honestly all of us really learn how to pray.

And one thing that I was speaking about is something that we may have heard, but we sometimes

neglect to make room for

is the fact that prayer is a dialogue, not a monologue. And so every time that we're coming to God

in prayer, no matter what that looks like, if it's in the morning throughout our day, in the evening,

there should be an expectation that we come into prayer with that he is going to speak that

he is going to give us direction clarity or highlight something to us that we need to know or understand

or even just a question that we may need to ponder on deeper and so it's really important even in prayer

that you always leave room for God to speak.

Because sometimes, like, we'll just be coming in and just, like, giving just everything, like, our request, what may be going on, what may be happening in our life in a moment, our worries, or cares and their doubts, which is necessary and significant and important, but we never take even a moment in between what we're speaking to God about

or even after to just sit and be present and hear what he has to say.

And I was using this example because this past Thursday I hosted a Bible study and there was

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