What Is Prayer and How Do I Get It To Work?—One Question with BT

The Aggressive Life with Brian Tome

Crossroads

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 756 Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

BT does a deep dive on prayer, one of the most misunderstood and underutilized spiritual disciplines. He covers common questions like: “What is prayer?”, “How do I do it?” and “How do I get it to work?” Full of aggressive and actionable tips to get more yeses when you pray—things like (1) be animated, (2) be specific, and (3) picture what you are praying for—this short episode just might unlock something new for you when it comes to talking with, and hearing from, God.

Watch BT’s most recent weekend teaching on prayer here.
Check out BT’s first book, Welcome to the Revolution, here.
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Transcript

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0:00.0	I only talk with God and I need a favor.
0:04.0	And God, I need a favor.
0:24.2	Welcome the aggressive life. It's time for another one question episode where I try to wax eloquently and healthily and helpfully on a question that you've asked.
0:36.8	And today's question is, what is prayer and how do I get it to work?
0:42.5	It almost seems like I seated the crowd with this one.
0:45.8	Like, who's asked about prayer?
0:46.9	Actually, a lot of people ask about prayer, specifically people have needs.
0:51.2	If you don't have any needs, then you don't ask about prayer.
0:56.6	If you've got all the money you need, if you've got all the relationships you need, if you have all the physical health you need,
1:01.3	if you have everything you need, you probably don't need God, or at least you don't think of God.
1:06.4	We generally come to God when there's a need that we can't meet. And when we have that need,
1:13.4	that's when we start getting interested in prayer. Now, if you have come to God and gotten
1:19.9	interested in prayer in your lowest moments, as you start rebuilding and start having higher highs,
1:26.4	you'll keep that discipline and keep that going
1:28.7	because you know what it meant for you. Some of us are frustrated with our prayer life
1:35.3	or we just don't pray at all because, well, as, as, uh, I'm not jellyfish, jelly roll.
1:42.6	Jelly roll said,
1:47.4	I only talk with God and I need a favor.
1:49.9	And God, I need a favor.
1:51.4	That's some of us.
1:58.9	If I don't need anything that I'm not asking, God, others of us don't ask because we didn't hear anything from God before.
2:00.0	God didn't do what we asked before.
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