Early Mornings - Late Nights: How to Pray Effectively

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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 survived kidney failure and learned firsthand the body’s God-given ability to heal.

Together, Randal and Serena share honest conversations about walking through pain, finding purpose in brokenness, and clinging to hope when life feels unbearable. This episode offers encouragement, biblical wisdom, and real-life stories that remind you grief is not the end—it’s the place where faith can grow deeper and God’s healing power is revealed.

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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 seasons.

This episode offers encouragement, practical tools, and faith-filled insights to help parents grow closer to their children while growing closer to God. Whether you’re a seasoned homeschooler or just curious about blending faith with learning, this podcast will inspire you to see education as more than academics—it’s a pathway to prayer, connection, and spiritual growth.

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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 transformed her, breaking spiritual strongholds and replacing pain with purpose. Her testimony reveals how forgiveness isn’t just a feeling—it’s a choice, and a daily discipline.

Living a lifestyle of giving to the poor, she models what it means to walk by faith, not by sight. Whether you're feeling stuck, wounded, or seeking a deeper connection with God, this episode offers encouragement that breakthrough is possible—and it starts on your knees.

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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.

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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."

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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.

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In this episode we will be discussing the following topics:

• How to stay connected with God throughout the day
• How to have couch conversations with God
• You don't have to be loud for God to hear
• How to increase your faith to believe God in prayer
• The difference between intersessory prayer and daily conversations with God
• How small answers builds your faith

Come join us as we discuss how to have  conversations with God.

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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 allowing God to speak to us because God is always speaking.

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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.

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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.