The Collaboratory : A Listening Prayer Experience

The Question that Changes Everything

We so often think that we know what we need to know. What if we don’t? What if the things on God’s heart wouldn’t even occur to us to ask about? What if open-ended, curious questions really are the best way to know a person, and the best way to know a personal God?

God, what do you want me to know?

Let's listen together...

Visit HERE to download “Can You Hear Me?” I hope this free listening guide serves you as you practice. For more insight on hearing God’s voice, start at the beginning! Episode 4 is particularly helpful as well.

Music by Matthew Wright

The first episode of Season 2 offers a tool for coming to the present moment in order to connect with God.

We start with a breath exercise coupled with sensory awareness, then practice a body scan culminate with and visualizing God at the center of the heart.

May you sense God's presence within you as you listen to the voice of Love.

Season Two, the "Toolkit" is about to begin... the pre-lab gives you a taste of the next leg of our journey.

I cannot wait to continue... let's listen together.

Visit thecollaboratorypodcast.com for details and resources.

Music by Matt Wright

In this final episode of season one, we discuss the fact that we are storied people. We are formed by the stories where are told, and by the stories we tell.

The question is, whose voice is shaping you?

Let’s listen together.

Visit thecollaboratorypodcast.com for more details and resources.

Music by Matt Wright.

Have you ever felt like your faith was only as strong as you were disciplined? As in, the consistency of your Bible reading or your prayer life or church attendance (or lack there of) was your source of confidence? This is a faith that is dependent upon us and not upon God.

What if the way that we engage God - through prayer (silence, listening, and talking), engaging with Scripture, and in community were simply the pathway by which we were formed by God. In fact, it is HIS faithfulness, not ours that keeps us.

The invitation is to participate with God. For sure, there is action on our part. But to release control to the One who knows you the best and loves you the most is the goal. He is faithful. And you are worth His love.

Question: What is your invitation to me to get in the flow of your love this week?

Music by Matt Wright

What does it mean to be blessed? Perhaps not what you think... Dive in with me as we explore trial and temptation, joy and blessing, and the relational God who measures things by an other worldly metric of love.

What is a blessing in your life?

Let's listen together...

Music by Matthew Wright.

Do you know that what you think about, meditate upon actually becomes part of your very body?

“Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.”

Romans 12:2

The question is not whether or not we can renew our mind, but how?

Let's listen together...

Music by Matthew Wright

What if God gave us our imaginations as a way to behold him, to sense his presence, to engage with the Voice that is in us but not from us?

And what if God had a glorious sense of humor and wasn't as serious as we always made him out to be?

This one is going to be fun. Let's listen together...

Music by Matthew Wright

Episode 9:

There is nothing so unnerving as silence in a conversation when you are craving connection. Let’s begin to explore together some of the possibilities for when we experience quiet when we talk to God.

Let's listen together.

Our question: “God, what do you want me to know about the quiet?”

Visit HERE to download “Can You Hear Me?” I hope this free listening guide serves you as you practice.

Music by Matthew Wright

Episode 8.

There are three Greek phrases translated to "Word" in our English Bible: Logos, Graphe, and Rhema. What does this have to do with listening to God? More than you could imagine.

Let read the Word, hear the Word and and experience the Word as we listen together to the One who is the logo of heaven.

Music by Matthew Wright