Early Mornings - Late Nights: How to Pray Effectively

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• When Faith Meets Grief 07.10.2025 41min

  Send a text Randal and Serena Johnson are a homeschooling family who have walked through loss, illness, and unexpected healing while holding on to God’s promises. After the passing of her mother, Serena answered God’s call to become a grief counselor, guiding her family and others through the valleys of sorrow. Randal, who carried the weight of losing his father for many years, discovered freedom in God’s timing while stepping into his calling as a composer, arranger, and producer. He also su...
• Homeschooling: Pray, Teach, Grow 27.08.2025 44min

  Send a text Welcome to Homeschooling: Pray, Teach, Grow, where faith, family, and education meet. In this podcast we will meet Leslie Martino, an educator from New York, devoted homeschool mom, and author. This podcast explores the natural connection between learning and faith. Leslie shares how through joy, challenges, and even chaos, she learned to break down life’s difficulties into simple lessons for children, teach them how to pray, and remain emotionally available even during traumatic ...
• Breaking Chains Through Prayer: A Life of Fasting, Forgiveness, and Faith 18.04.2025 35min

  Send a text In this powerful episode, we sit down with a remarkable 40-year-old woman from Philly whose story will stir your spirit and strengthen your faith. A mother of three, grandmother, and mother-in-law, she shares her incredible journey of resilience—navigating life in foster care on her own since the age of 20. Through a life rooted in prayer and fasting, she has overcome deep wounds of rejection, fear, and abandonment. She opens up about how prayer not only sustained her—but transfor...
• Attracting God's Attention 31.03.2025 21min

  Send a text What does it take to truly get God's attention? In this episode, we explore the powerful story of Cornelius in Acts 10:1–8, a man whose life of consistent fasting, fervent prayer, and generous giving moved heaven. Learn how these three righteous acts positioned him for divine visitation and breakthrough. If you’ve ever wondered how to align your daily walk with what pleases God, this episode will both inspire and challenge you to live a life that draws His attention.
• Cry and Pray - The Spiritual Journey of a Single Mom 19.02.2025 36min

  Send a text In this episode we hear the story of a mother of three boys who arrived in the USA as a single woman, later got married, but her husband left her. Determined to provide for her family, she started a cleaning business, which now allows her to rent her own home and support her children independently. Relying on her faith and prayer to guide her through hardships, she lived by the motto: "Cry and pray."
• The Discipline of Prayer 17.01.2025 19min

  Send a text In this episode we will be discussing how being disciplined in prayer leads to wanting to pray which leads to looking forward to prayer. Being disciplined helps with motivitation which leads to great results as you press into God.
• Conversations with God 01.03.2023 43min

  Send a text In this episode we will be discussing the following topics: How to stay connected with God throughout the dayHow to have couch conversations with GodYou don't have to be loud for God to hearHow to increase your faith to believe God in prayerThe difference between intersessory prayer and daily conversations with GodHow small answers builds your faithCome join us as we discuss how to have conversations with God.
• Prayer Life of a Young Pastor 27.01.2023 51min

  Send a text In this episode learn from the prayer life of a young pastor how he navigated through life from a young man who did not know God to a pastor who has learned that trough prayer you can be in constant communication with your heavenly father. In this episode we discuss how the Holy Spirit is always speaking. How God speaks to us even when family and friends have deserted us. How God comunicates through our thoughts, circumstances and his word. How prayer is mostly about allowin...
• How to Navigate Difficult Times with Prayer 17.01.2023 37min

  Send a text Listen to learn how to navigate difficult times through prayer. Learn about the value of surrounding yourselves with godly men and women who support you when things get difficult. How to find that solitary place to recharge during trying times. Learn the value of speaking positive words over ourselves. Finally, learn how to reconcile the fact that you can pray for a stranger and God heals them then you pray for a family member and they pass away.
• Getting Guidance from God Through Prayer 13.09.2022 54min

  Send a text In this episode we will hear from a newly married young couple about how they get guidance from God. We will Listen to them tell us how the two of them living in different parts of the country were guided by God to the same church where they met and got married. We will also hear about how they pray together as a young couple and get guidance. Lastly, they share with us the wonderful miracles God did in their family because of prayer. This is one episode you don’t want to miss.
• Men and Women as Teachers of Prayer 12.07.2022 17min

  Send a text As discussed in a previous podcast we notice in Luke 11:1 that Jesus' disciples had a need and a desire to be taught to pray. Since Jesus is no longer with us in the flesh, God has set men and women in the church with the gift of teaching to help us develop as Christians. In this episode we will discuss the gift of the teacher that God has placed in the church and how we can use this gift in our quest to have a better prayer life.
• The Holy Spirit as Teacher in Prayer 19.06.2022 28min

  Send a text We have to realize that Jesus is no longer with us in the flesh to teach us to pray. However, he has sent the Holy Spirit , men and women and the Word of God to teach us all we need to know in order to be effective in prayer. In this episode we will look at the Holy Spirit as teacher. “But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you.” (John 14:26 NKJV)
• Persistent and Tenacious Prayer 05.06.2022 24min

  Send a text There is one basic attribute which is needed in order for our prayers to be successful that is PERSISTENCE. However together with persistence TENACITY is also required. What is the difference between persistence and tenacity? Listen to the podcast to find out.
• How to Have Successful Prayer 21.05.2022 23min

  Send a text “If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you” (John 15:7 NIV) In the above scripture we are admonished to remain in Christ and have His word remain in us. If we do this we are told that whatever we ask for in pray will be done for us. How do we remain in God’s Word? How can we be assured that our prayers will be heard and answered? Listen to this podcast to find out.
• Praying According to God’s Will 04.05.2022 26min

  Send a text In order to pray according to God’s will we need to find out from scripture says about the following two things: God’s will for who & what to pray about and God’s will for how to pray. In this episode we will examine what the Bible says about the things we ought to pray about and also our what our motivation should be when we are praying.
• Believing Prayer 24.04.2022 27min

  Send a text We must believe in order to get answers to prayer. But what do we have to believe? In order to get answers to prayer we must believe at least the following four things: 1.That God exists 2.That God rewards those who diligently seek him 3. That Jesus is the Son of God and no one comes to the Father except through Jesus 4.That we have what we ask God for before we see it
• A Conversation with an Ordinary Christian 11.04.2022 45min

  Send a text In this episode we have a conversation with an ordinary christian lady named Tiffany Payne. Be inspired as Tiffany discussed how she came to know Jesus, her early morning wake up routine, how she gets ready to pray and her take on spiritual warfare. You will thouroughly enjoy listening to this conversation as Tiffany takes us on a journey through her spiritual life.
• Family Relationship Principle 02.04.2022 25min

  Send a text When we believe in Jesus Christ as Lord and savior we immediately receive the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit comes to dwell within us and witness to our spirits that we are children of God. As children of God we can pray knowing that God is our father and we are members of his family. Because of this we can be assured that God (our father) will answer our prayers.
• We have to learn how to pray 25.03.2022 27min

  Send a text In Luke 11:1, Jesus’ disciples made a request to learn how to pray. We see from this request that effective prayer has to be learned. The disciple asked, “Lord, teach us to pray.” After witnessing Jesus pray, he saw his own inadequacies in the area of prayer and realized that he needed to be taught by the Master, the Lord Jesus Himself. Join us in this episode as we discuss the need to be taught to pray and how we are able to learn this discipline.
• An Introduction to prayer 09.03.2022 21min

  Send a text It is important for us to realize that we have to learn how to pray effectively. Everyone knows how to pray to some degree, but not everyone knows how to pray and get results on a consistent basis. Jesus’ own disciples realized they needed to be taught to pray. In Luke 11:1, His disciples made a request to learn how to pray. Although Jesus was the Son of God and equal with God, in the days when He walked on this earth, He felt Himself utterly dependent on a Power higher than Hims...