Unquenchable: Biblical Theology, Listening Prayer, and Christian Living

Don recounts a prayer session so far out of his faith, theology, and experience that it caused him to self-reflect on whether what was happening in prayer was of God, man, or the enemy.

In this Episode Don, Jen, and their Pray Through It team answer questions during their Lexington North Carolina Venture Out Retreat. Questions include:

How can we know if we or the person we are praying with has experienced real and lasting spiritual breakthrough through prayer?

If the person we are praying with is not getting any imagery, should we share what we are seeing with them?

What about people who don’t see in pictures?

Regardless of your background this episode will help you to get to know our team on a bit of a personal level as you hear us let our hair down (so to speak) and discuss the mysteries of prayer.

If you are so new to listening and inner-healing prayer that you are still struggling to get your mind around what it looks like for someone to even see, hear, or sense something from God in prayer, head over to our website www.praythroughit.com/media and watch one of our sample prayer sessions. This will help you to better conceptualize what it means for someone to pray through something.

We talk with Michael about his second prayer session where we prayed through when he was inappropriately touched as a child (there are no graphic details shared) and we discuss some reasons why many attending Church, Christian colleges, & seminaries often miss what God wants to do in their lives through prayer.

Michael was majoring in Biblical Studies, but was struggling with insomnia as he wrestled with the demons of his past. For over 15 years his sleep schedule consisted of 1-2 hours of tormented sleep each night with a 15-hour day of sleep once a week. He finally cried out to God and was led to pray through things with Dr. Love. In this episode, Don and Jen interview Michael six years later as he shares about how this one prayer session freed him from a "demon" who he had given authority over his heart and how after this single prayer session he was able to sleep again.

In this episode, Don overviews 4 Obstacles that often initially hinder Breakthrough as you are praying through things:

Failure to understand how God speaks.

Doubt concerning God’s goodness or His willingness to help.

An unbalanced view of God’s sovereignty and human responsibility.

Bitterness.

Along the way, Don gives real life examples of how to lead yourself and other to breakthrough through listening and inner-healing prayer.

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Episode Description: Emily knew that she was not experiencing the presence of God in her life like other students in her class. Her emotions were like an empty abyss and her relationships were like dead trees blocking out the outside world. Don and Jen discovered explain how they discovered through prayer how her father’s well-meaning and encouraging words became the basis of her struggle with abandonment and how over time this developed into an unhealthy attachment to her mother. Through two prayer sessions, Jesus is put into His proper place and her years of counseling suddenly make sense. Once she discovers that she has the power to crumble the shell of these old relationships and that, with Jesus’ help, she can let go of her unhealthy reliance on her mother, and is now free to live and walk with Jesus like never before.

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In this episode, Don and Jen debrief on praying through things with Madison, field questions, lead in a sample listening and inner-healing prayer, and Madison shares some of her thoughts concerning her prayer session 5 years ago and her current relationship with her family and food.

In this episode, Don and Jen discuss how all too often there is a “question behind the question” that never gets addressed. Don overviews a prayer session that demonstrates why seemingly theological questions are often really seeking answers to deeper, more personal, questions. In Madison’s case, a question about the Holy Spirit turns out to be more of a question concerning whether the size of her body determines if she is worthy to be loved.

Chris, Jen, and Don discuss Don’s early experimentation with “The Garden of the Heart Prayer.” Don shares his initial skepticism toward God speaking through pictures in prayer and his initial struggle concerning if what he saw and heard in prayer was biblical, and the lasting life change that resulted. Don and Jen discuss a real-life example to illustrate the importance of leading others to hear from the Lord themselves, rather than too quickly sharing our interpretations of images someone else received during prayer. And they share a bit about why pictures can be so powerful in prayer, why they prefer to start with scripture, and why they are slow to introduce some imagery into prayer.

Don shares how watching Jen's journey and reading Rusty Rustenbach's "A guide for Listening and Inner-Healing Prayer" led him to from skepticism to belief as he grew to understand Jesus' teaching on the Holy Spirit and began experimenting with listening and Inner-healing prayer in his own prayer life. Even from his first session, he discovers the reason behind his struggle to love Christians who seemingly fail to stand up for what was right.