Beholding Prayer

Today's prayer is an exercise based on the chapter 'Praying the Pain' from Thirsting. It's a way to help us get to the root causes of our disordered feelings and responses to things and to allow the Holy Spirit to heal and meet us there.

The Beholding Prayer Podcast is an experiential podcast designed to help you enter a deeper experience of God.

This series of guided prayer meditations is based on my new book Thirsting: Quenching Our Soul's Deepest Desire, an invitation in learning to drink more deeply of God's presence.

So, find somewhere quiet, pour yourself a coffee, and allow the Spirit to meet you where you are today.

Strahan Coleman is a pray-er, writer and musician from Aotearoa, New Zealand. You can find his prayer books, and his story and invitation to prayer Beholding, wherever good books are sold.  To take a course on prayer, or to go deeper in your journey with God, visit www.centreforcommunion.com.

Music composed and produced by Jonathan Class.

The Beholding Prayer Podcast is an experiential podcast designed to help you enter a deeper experience of God.

This series of guided prayer meditations is based on my new book Thirsting: Quenching Our Soul's Deepest Desire, an invitation in learning to drink more deeply of God's presence.

Today's prayer is a guided meditation based on Revelation 3:20. It's about opening up space for loving communion within us in the places we keep him out.

So, find somewhere quiet, pour yourself a coffee, and allow the Spirit to meet you where you are today.

Strahan Coleman is a pray-er, writer and musician from Aotearoa, New Zealand. You can find his prayer books, and his story and invitation to prayer Beholding, wherever good books are sold.  To take a course on prayer, or to go deeper in your journey with God, visit www.centreforcommunion.com.

Music composed and produced by Jonathan Class.

The Beholding Prayer Podcast is an experiential podcast designed to help you enter a deeper experience of God.

This series of guided prayer meditations is based on my new book Thirsting: Quenching Our Soul's Deepest Desire, an invitation in learning to drink more deeply of God's presence.

Today's prayer is a guided meditation on the desire of Christ expressed on the cross through his cry, "I thirst" (John 19:28). Of course in these words Jesus expresses his physical need for water, but in these words we also hear something of His deep, psalmic longing to heal and reconcile humanity to Himself. His thirst for us.

So, find somewhere quiet, pour yourself a coffee, and allow the Spirit to meet you where you are today.

Strahan Coleman is a pray-er, writer and musician from Aotearoa, New Zealand. You can find his prayer books, and his story and invitation to prayer Beholding, wherever good books are sold.  To take a course on prayer, or to go deeper in your journey with God, visit www.centreforcommunion.com.

Music composed and produced by Jonathan Class.

The Beholding Prayer Podcast is an experiential podcast designed to help you enter a deeper experience of God.

This series of guided prayer meditations is based on my new book Thirsting: Quenching Our Soul's Deepest Desire, an invitation in learning to drink more deeply of God's presence.

Today's prayer is a guided meditation on getting in touch with our own deep thirst, and learning to open it up to God.

So, find somewhere quiet, pour yourself a coffee, and allow the Spirit to meet you where you are today.

Strahan Coleman is a pray-er, writer and musician from Aotearoa, New Zealand. You can find his prayer books, and his story and invitation to prayer Beholding, wherever good books are sold.  To take a course on prayer, or to go deeper in your journey with God, visit www.centreforcommunion.com.

Music composed and produced by Jonathan Class.

The Beholding Prayer Podcast is an experiential podcast designed to help you enter a deeper experience of God.

This series of guided prayer meditations is based on my new book Thirsting: Quenching Our Soul's Deepest Desire, an invitation to learning to drink more deeply of God's presence.

Today's prayer is a guided meditation on experiencing the desire of the Trinity for you.

So, find somewhere quiet, pour yourself a coffee, and allow the Spirit to meet you where you are today.

Strahan Coleman is a pray-er, writer and musician from Aotearoa, New Zealand. You can find his prayer books, and his story and invitation to prayer Beholding, wherever good books are sold.  To take a course on prayer, or to go deeper in your journey with God, visit www.centreforcommunion.com.

Music composed and produced by Jonathan Class.

The Beholding Prayer Podcast is an experiential accompaniment to Strahan's book 'Beholding: Deepening Our Experience in God' which explores prayer as seeing and being seen by God in our everyday ordinary lives. Beholding can be found wherever good books are sold.

Strahan Coleman is an author, musician and spiritual director. To find out more about his ministry, including his prayer books, visit www.commonerscommunion.com.

Music & Editing by Jonathan Class.

If you struggle with an anxious mind, torrents of thoughts or focus in prayer, The Elevator is an exercise to help you bring your mind down into your heart so that you can pray from there.

The Beholding Prayer Podcast is an experiential accompaniment to Strahan's book 'Beholding: Deepening Our Experience in God' which explores prayer as seeing and being seen by God in our everyday ordinary lives. Beholding can be found wherever good books are sold.

Strahan Coleman is an author, musician and spiritual director. To find out more about his ministry, including his prayer books, visit www.commonerscommunion.com.

Music & Editing by Jonathan Class.

The Beholding Prayer Podcast is an experiential accompaniment to Strahan's book 'Beholding: Deepening Our Experience in God' which explores prayer as seeing and being seen by God in our everyday ordinary lives. Beholding can be found wherever good books are sold.

Strahan Coleman is an author, musician and spiritual director. To find out more about his ministry, including his prayer books, visit www.commonerscommunion.com.

Music & Editing by Jonathan Class.

The way we bring ourselves to prayer matters. In our hyper stimulated age, practising presentness as we begin our prayer times can be a helpful way of grounding us in our bodies, where God is homed, and help us experience him more freely.

The Beholding Prayer Podcast is an experiential accompaniment to Strahan's book 'Beholding: Deepening Our Experience in God' which explores prayer as seeing and being seen by God in our everyday ordinary lives. Beholding can be found wherever good books are sold.

Strahan Coleman is an author, musician and spiritual director. To find out more about his ministry, including his prayer books, visit www.commonerscommunion.com.

Music & Editing by Jonathan Class.

As Christians should we incorporate  breathing into our prayer times? Isn't that an import from other religions and if not, what does scripture and Christian tradition have to say about breath and breathing in prayer?

The Beholding Prayer Podcast is an experiential accompaniment to Strahan's book 'Beholding: Deepening Our Experience in God' which explores prayer as seeing and being seen by God in our everyday ordinary lives. Beholding can be found wherever good books are sold.

Strahan Coleman is an author, musician and spiritual director. To find out more about his ministry, including his prayer books, visit www.commonerscommunion.com.

Music & Editing by Jonathan Class.