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Awakening Episode 030: Praying in the Realm of God Pt. 3
Welcome to Episode 030 of the “Awakening with Nathanael Wolf” podcast and radio broadcast.
In this episode, Nathanael teaches on prayer that is love and love that is prayer.
In this episode, you’ll discover:
- How prayer "unselfs" us from the "false-self" or "shadow self".
- Mature prayer requires us to enter the realm of God instead of only trying to acquire something from it.
- What matters most in a relationship is not the function a person performs, but the person himself. Functions can be replaced, persons cannot.
Notable episode quotes:
It is important to understand two aspects of growth in prayer. First, growth in prayer, unlike physical growth, cannot be clearly separated into stages, although it is possible to distinguish characteristics that belong to beginners and proficients. Second, growth in prayer seems to follow a pattern of development similar to growth in marriage. In the beginning prayer tends to be more vocal and petitionary. Like a young lover, the young Christian loves out of selfish considerations and a need to fill up every moment with words. The young Christian loves God for her own sake, and this is reflected in prayers that concentrate on personal concerns, even though they may be legitimate, as the eighteenth-century Jesuit Jean Grou astutely observed, "Self-love has often a larger share than we imagine in the desire to keep our conscience clear, to correct our faults and to make progress in virtue; however small the share may be it is always too large, for self-love has no place in holiness which demands its complete destruction." The one who grows in prayer moves farther and farther away from self-interested prayers of petition to God-directed prayers of adoration and thanksgiving. Prayers become less vocal and more mental. Words and images become unnecessary as the soul draws deeper into the heart of prayer. The one praying engages God with a simple attention of the mind and an equally simple application of the will. The highest prayers are those in which God prays in us: “Pray thou thyself in me so that my prayer may be ever directed to thy glory.” -Simon Chan in Spiritual Theology: A Systematic Study of the Christian Life
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You may also get every episode for free by subscribing to the podcast. You can subscribe to this podcast at:
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- Google Play
- RSS Feed Link: http://awakeningwithnathanaelwolf.libsyn.com/rss
If you are not going to listen using the Sent Ones Unlimited app, iTunes, or Google Play then we would suggest that you could use a podcast application on your iPhone or Android phone such as Instacast. Another popular application for listening to podcasts is Downcast.
Applications like these make it easy to discover, subscribe, and listen to podcasts. You simply copy and paste the link to the RSS feed (also shown above) into the search bar of the app and it will find our podcast. They also automatically update your podcasts every time a new episode is released.
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If you enjoyed the show, please rate it on iTunes and write a brief review. If you are listening on another platform that allows ratings and reviews please do the same. That would help tremendously in getting the word out by raising the visibility of the show.
We hope you enjoyed this podcast. God uses people just like you to support the ministry of Sent Ones Unlimited. Please visit https://sentonesunlimited.org/donate/ to give a single gift of any amount or become a monthly partner.
More about us:
If you’d like to learn more about Nathanael Wolf, the ministry of Sent Ones Unlimited, read Nathanael’s blog posts, see other resources, or view Nathanael’s upcoming schedule please visit www.sentonesunlimited.org.
Connect with Nathanael or Sent Ones Unlimited:
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Contact Us:
We hope you enjoyed this podcast. God uses people just like you to support the ministry of Sent Ones Unlimited. Please visit https://sentonesunlimited.org/donate/ to give a single gift of any amount or become a monthly partner.
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By Nathanael WolfWelcome to Episode 030 of the “Awakening with Nathanael Wolf” podcast and radio broadcast.
In this episode, Nathanael teaches on prayer that is love and love that is prayer.
In this episode, you’ll discover:
- How prayer "unselfs" us from the "false-self" or "shadow self".
- Mature prayer requires us to enter the realm of God instead of only trying to acquire something from it.
- What matters most in a relationship is not the function a person performs, but the person himself. Functions can be replaced, persons cannot.
Notable episode quotes:
It is important to understand two aspects of growth in prayer. First, growth in prayer, unlike physical growth, cannot be clearly separated into stages, although it is possible to distinguish characteristics that belong to beginners and proficients. Second, growth in prayer seems to follow a pattern of development similar to growth in marriage. In the beginning prayer tends to be more vocal and petitionary. Like a young lover, the young Christian loves out of selfish considerations and a need to fill up every moment with words. The young Christian loves God for her own sake, and this is reflected in prayers that concentrate on personal concerns, even though they may be legitimate, as the eighteenth-century Jesuit Jean Grou astutely observed, "Self-love has often a larger share than we imagine in the desire to keep our conscience clear, to correct our faults and to make progress in virtue; however small the share may be it is always too large, for self-love has no place in holiness which demands its complete destruction." The one who grows in prayer moves farther and farther away from self-interested prayers of petition to God-directed prayers of adoration and thanksgiving. Prayers become less vocal and more mental. Words and images become unnecessary as the soul draws deeper into the heart of prayer. The one praying engages God with a simple attention of the mind and an equally simple application of the will. The highest prayers are those in which God prays in us: “Pray thou thyself in me so that my prayer may be ever directed to thy glory.” -Simon Chan in Spiritual Theology: A Systematic Study of the Christian Life
Download the Sent Ones Unlimited app:
The Sent Ones Unlimited app is the best way to listen to the podcast. Please download the Sent Ones Unlimited app at the Apple App Store or on Google Play (search using the words Sent Ones Unlimited) for the latest episodes as well as our blog posts, ministry schedule, and much more--all right on your smartphone. Plus, our app has a Bible with fourteen English translations (including the Amplified Bible and The Message) and an audio Bible in the English Standard Version.
Another advantage of listening on the Sent Ones Unlimited app is that you don’t have to load iTunes on your computer, subscribe, and then manually sync to your phone. The app does all the work for you and downloads each new episode.
We post each weekly broadcast to the website and the app on Monday mornings. If you have the app, you will automatically get every episode for free.
You may also get every episode for free by subscribing to the podcast. You can subscribe to this podcast at:
- iTunes
- Google Play
- RSS Feed Link: http://awakeningwithnathanaelwolf.libsyn.com/rss
If you are not going to listen using the Sent Ones Unlimited app, iTunes, or Google Play then we would suggest that you could use a podcast application on your iPhone or Android phone such as Instacast. Another popular application for listening to podcasts is Downcast.
Applications like these make it easy to discover, subscribe, and listen to podcasts. You simply copy and paste the link to the RSS feed (also shown above) into the search bar of the app and it will find our podcast. They also automatically update your podcasts every time a new episode is released.
Share the love:
If you enjoyed the show, please rate it on iTunes and write a brief review. If you are listening on another platform that allows ratings and reviews please do the same. That would help tremendously in getting the word out by raising the visibility of the show.
We hope you enjoyed this podcast. God uses people just like you to support the ministry of Sent Ones Unlimited. Please visit https://sentonesunlimited.org/donate/ to give a single gift of any amount or become a monthly partner.
More about us:
If you’d like to learn more about Nathanael Wolf, the ministry of Sent Ones Unlimited, read Nathanael’s blog posts, see other resources, or view Nathanael’s upcoming schedule please visit www.sentonesunlimited.org.
Connect with Nathanael or Sent Ones Unlimited:
- Youtube
- Periscope
Contact Us:
We hope you enjoyed this podcast. God uses people just like you to support the ministry of Sent Ones Unlimited. Please visit https://sentonesunlimited.org/donate/ to give a single gift of any amount or become a monthly partner.