Kelly Arabie

Kay Daigle

If you're struggling with prayer, we have some practical prayer solutions. Kay Daigle and Kelly Arabie discuss some of the causes and practical ways to get past them.

Do you long to feel successful in your prayer life instead of dealing with distractions, repetition, a disorganized prayer list or the fear of praying with others? Kay and Kelly confront all of these issues and provide practical solutions to your prayer struggles.

You can link to the video version of this conversation if you prefer.

Resources

You can access the slides from the video version of this podcast.

Or you may want to browse BOW's other resources on the topic of prayer.

Suggested printed resources

CSB Scripture Notebook

John Bailee – Diary of Private Prayer

Valley of Vision: A Collection of Puritan Prayers and Devotions

Every Moment Holy – Volumes 1,2,3

The Book of Common Prayer

Lectio 365 app

Time Stamps 

00:33 Welcome & introductions

03:19 Solutions for distractions

10:13 Solutions for repetitive prayers

17:38 Navigating prayer requests

21:22 Organizing prayer requests

27:13 Praying aloud with others

40:51 Praying in tough times

42:27 God wants you to talk to him

43:57 Closing prayer

44:38 Other prayer resources

TranscriptKelly >> Hello and welcome to the Beyond Ordinary Women podcast. I'm Kelly Arabie and today I'm talking with Kay Daigle. The podcast that we're doing today is Practical Prayer Solutions. Kay, I'm so excited that you reached out to me about this topic when we talked about the two podcasts that we would be recording this month. Bible Study and prayer were two things that I was really excited to talk with you about.

So I'm glad that we're going to be talking about prayer today. I can honestly say that's not always the case. Maybe earlier in my life I can remember one of the first women's retreats I helped plan. The topic was on prayer. And when that was announced, it kind of went over like a lead balloon. It was perhaps not the most the topic that everybody was excited about.

And I say that regretfully, I have learned a lot in my spiritual life in the area of prayer. And I know that there's a lot that you have experience with and have to say to that as well. Tell me a little bit about why you wanted to record today.

Kay >> Well, I'm excited about this recording too, Kelly. In January. the women in charge of the Bible study that I've been part of in our church asked me if I would, they actually asked me in the fall, but they asked me if in January I would do a four part series, just more of a lecture format, on prayer.

And they just really left it up to me as to what to do. And so I had a plan for that. But I also realized that there are impediments to prayer. Things that stop us from praying, or we're not comfortable with it, or whatever. So that very first week I passed out blank cards to all the women who were there, and I asked them to write down what was the hardest thing for them about prayer. And these practical solutions are the answers that we discussed over those four weeks.

And I was really amazed at the variety of problems they came up with. But these were the main four. These were the ones that the most people commented on. And I thought that perhaps this would be helpful to our larger audience as well, because it really seemed to be meaningful to some of the women in the group.

Kelly >> So what are some of those impediments to prayer?

Kay >> Well, the first one that I covered (and this was even before I had the cards, because I needed to go ahead and talk about something), is something that people had told me over and over. I'd already been hearing it, and that is distractions. We start praying, and then we're distracted by other things, and we get our minds off it and often never go back to prayer—or just cut it short, whatever.

And I think there are a lot of ways we can deal with that,