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Welcome to season 2 of the Determined to Dance podcast. I pray that you’ll be uplifted, encouraged, and will move forward each and every day. Today’s episode, A Prayerful Podcast Season, wraps up the 2022 year.
Remember: A Prayerful Podcast Season
Next week’s episode marks the end of season two but not the end of the podcast. I’m already in the planning stages of season three and we’ll talk more about that next week. If you haven’t already, please go to jenniferhallmark.com, scroll down to “Subscribe to My Monthly Email Newsletter” and sign up so you won’t miss any information about the new season. You’ll also receive three free gifts that I hope you’ll enjoy.
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I’ve so enjoyed this season of prayer and I hope you have too. The first five episodes covered the basics of prayer, while episodes six through ten talked about specific prayerful situations. Check out those show notes for printable resources you can keep handy at your favorite prayer spot.
Then we talked about the benefits of daily prayer and the joy you receive when praying for others. Some of my personal favorite episodes came next when we examined praying like Jesus. The research I did in the four gospels pointed once again to what a wonderful Savior we serve. Then followed intercession and specific ways to talk to God when it comes to our family, community, city, state, nation, and world. A thought about praying in the Spirit ended this season and I can’t thank you enough for listening.
Three of my favorite prayer quotes from season two are:
- “Prayer can change anything. The impossible doesn’t exist. His is the power. Ours is the prayer. Without Him, we cannot. Without us, He will not.” Pastor Jack Hayford
- “If some Christians that have been complaining of their ministers had said and acted less before men and had applied themselves with all their might to cry to God for their ministers—had as it were, risen and stormed heaven with their humble, fervent, and incessant prayer for them—they would have been much more in the way of success.” Jonathan Edwards
- “Spiritually, we have wandered far from the faith in our fathers… no nation which relegates the Bible to the background, which disregards the love of God, and flouts the claims of the Man of Galilee, can long survive.” Billy Graham
Two beloved scriptures on prayer to me are:
“…if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land. Now My eyes will be open and My ears attentive to prayer made in this place.” II Chronicles 7: 14-15 NKJV
“But you, when you pray, go into your room, and when you have shut your door, pray to your Father who is in the secret place; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.” Matthew 6:6 NKJV
Season two to me has been a time to dance with God, twirling and moving to heavenly music while He patiently listens to me chat about the people, places, and problems nearest and dearest to my heart. My joys. My struggles. My pain. Times of peace which settle my heart. Made possible by the greatest Father of all.
Let’s pray: Father God, we are so thankful that You taught us to pray in Your Word and listen to our chatter the same way a parent listens to a toddler. We don’t always know what to say but You still understand. Thank You for giving us Jesus as our Intercessor, ever praying at Your right hand. Thank You for the Holy Spirit. You are worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power; for You created all things, and by Your will, they exist and were created. * In Jesus’ name we pray, amen.
“Prayer is not asking. Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God, at His disposition, and listening to His voice in the depth of our hearts.” Mother Teresa
Today’s featured author is Maureen Chevalier-Seawell, MD, (Pronounced Chev-all-yay-Sool) author of I Witnessed Miracles. In this hope and faith-inspiring book, Dr. Chevalier-Seawell recounts the dozens of miracles she witnessed in her thirty-three years of medical practice and in her personal life. Do Miracles really happen? Does God still heal the sick? Dr. Maureen Chevalier-Seawell says, Yes! Available at Amazon and in Kindle Unlimited.
Next week, we’ll discover that it’s time we dare to dance with God in practical and powerful ways. Until then, stay determined to dance…
*Revelation 4:11
Links
My debut novel, Jessie’s Hope
Remember: A Prayerful Podcast Season
Video of the week:
I absolutely love music and each week I’d like to share a relevant song we can enjoy together.
Thank you for a thought and heart-provoking season!
I appreciate you listening, my friend. 🙂