Unquenchable: Biblical Theology, Listening Prayer, and Christian Living

Jenna and Lauren recount their first ever prayer session (with Sarah from Episodes 6-7) and how they came in feeling nervous & sick and with little training but walked away amazed at the breakthrough God did in Sarah's life through prayer and what it felt like to hear the beautiful things that God said to her as she prayed through things with them. Schedule a Pray Through It Prayer Session Attend a Pray Through It Event View Full Transcript Transcript [00:00:00] Jenna: It was just super powerful to be a part of the process and to know that I had nothing to do with it. I mean, it was done and it was like, really? That's it. I mean, we're done like You're healed. this is it. I just remember walking through the parking lot, getting some of my things afterwards, and just being like, wow, this really works. Like this works like God, you work. And it's just ridiculous that I would have that type of surprise because I'm talking about God. And of course He works. and it was just so powerful and it was so beautiful. it's amazing to know so little and pray with somebody and for huge pivotal things to happen it's like a miracle [00:01:08] Jennifer Love: This testimony comes from Jenna, as she reflects back on her prayer session with Sarah, the woman who's been sharing her testimony these last two episodes. This session with Sarah was the very first prayer session that Jenna and Lauren had led. If you've been listening to the last two podcasts, you know, that Sarah, the woman that they prayed with described her life up to this point as, [00:01:27] Sarah: I was at a place where, I just had zero interest in actually living. Even the basic necessities of life, figuring out what I was going to eat for the day. It was just this all consuming, painful topic. Oh my gosh. I can't believe that I have to figure out what I'm going to eat. And , I didn't want to do anything. Even taking a shower was difficult for me because it just seemed like it was going to be this huge daunting task. [00:02:01] Jennifer Love: As you listened to this episode, consider two things. First both before and after the session, Jenna and Lauren entered into the prayer session, feeling nervous. And Lauren was even feeling physically sick that day. And neither realized the depth of Sarah's struggles as they prayed with her. And even with the very little training and exposure they had, they were able to pray through things with Sarah and walk away marveling at what God did right in front of them. We've asked them to share this testimony with us today so that you might get an inside look at what it might be like to pray through things with someone and in the hopes that you too might be encouraged to take the next steps, to praying through things with others. [00:02:38] Don Love: So how'd you guys feel when Jen asked you to be a part of her prayer team? [00:02:49] Jenna: It was good. I was willing and wanted to have the experience But as the time got closer, I think I started to feel a little nervous. [00:02:57] Don Love: Yeah. What about you, Lauren? [00:02:59] Lauren: I agree. I was nervous. And in fact I remember Jen, put the prayer sheets up on the mantle for me to help lead them in prayer and I felt like every time I pass by it was just staring at me. And I'm like, I don't know if this is wrong to think, but I remember thinking, man, I just, I hope they pick other people. [00:03:18] Don Love: Yeah. Isn't that weird? Cause you, kind of want to do it, but at the same time it would be a relief if it didn't happen. Right? [00:03:24] Jenna: Yeah. I'll be honest. I felt the same way. when Jen told us that we had someone assigned us, it was like, okay, this is really happening. I guess we're going to go in this room and I'm just gonna do my best. [00:03:37] Don Love: So why don't you think that happens? Why do we get so hesitant about praying through things with somebody? What would the hesitancy be there? [00:03:43] Lauren: I think for me there's just al...

Don and Jen interview Sarah, a woman who has experienced multiple breakthroughs as she popped into Pray Through It meetings over the years. In this episode Sarah describes how her realization that she was an unplanned pregnancy led to her feeling as though she was unwanted, unloveable, and an inconvenience to her family. Perhaps the world would even be better if she was never born? She recounts how interactions with Jesus through prayer at a Pray Through It Women's Retreat helped her to forgive her mother and come to the understanding that her birth was a miracle and not a mistake. As a result, she now feels like "a totally different person" with "peace that surpasses all understanding." Full Transcript Schedule a Prayer Session Attend a Pray Through It Event

Don and Jen interview Sarah, a woman who has experienced multiple breakthroughs as she popped into Pray Through It meetings over the years. In this episode Sarah describes how her first two sessions led to major breakthroughs concerning the unpleasant and disempowering emotions she carried and her personal self-image built upon the words of bullies and an unhealthy dependence upon her mother. She comes to the realization that after her mother's death she was holding onto her anxiety because it felt like it was all that she had left of her mother, but as she prays through things, she is able to finally let go of all-consuming thoughts and self-shame that dominated her life for decades to receive and walk out the Fruit of the Spirit. Note: This episode contains a full-length sample prayer session recorded live at a Pray Through It conference. This prayer session begins at [00:13:24] and ends at [00:25:35]. Full Transcript Schedule a Prayer Session Attend a Pray Through It Event Self-Shame, Anxiety, Depression & Forgiveness [00:00:00] Sarah: My mother passed away. I was really struggling with my anxiety and I felt like it was all that I had left of her. I felt like my anxiety at that time was my own personal piece of her that I always, went to because it reminds me of my mother. And so during the first session that I had with you I was really shocked with just the peace that I felt in my soul.  It's still kind of gives me goosebumps because at this point I had no idea that people had been praying like this,  and it's just so incredible how the Lord brings you the fruits of the Spirit and that's exactly what I needed. I was finally able to move on and not focus on the wrong that I had done, the mistakes that I had made. I can now focus on Jesus and the right that he's done. [00:01:22] [00:01:43] Don Love: Hello, this is Don love, and this is an exciting time for us as prayer ministers, my bride, Jen and I just finished leading a seven session. Pray Through It prayer training here in Lynchburg, Virginia. And we're about to launch a new one day and three-day training, next month. If the testimonies in this podcast have gotten you curious and thirsty for more, we would love to have you join us at one of these trainings. The next three day prayer discipleship training retreat is in Forest, Virginia, June 23rd through 25th. [00:02:13] Jennifer Love: if you can only spare one day, come to our one day training on the 25th or our listening and inner healing prayer meeting, that will be open to the public also on the 25th. You can check out www.praythroughit.com/events for more details. [00:02:25] Don Love: If you aren't listening to this podcast at the time of the release, don't worry more trainings are in the works. And we're even in the process of developing online courses that will launch later in the year, as well as working with churches across the U S where we'll be holding retreats and trainings, just like this one. [00:02:41] Jennifer Love: And that brings us to this episodes, guest and topic. Sarah will be joining us here in the studio soon. As part of attending our trainings, we ask our participants to fill out a few questions so we can get an idea of their background in listening prayer, how they heard about pre threat ministries and what impact, if any, has pray through it had on the way that they pray and live their life. [00:02:58] Don Love: And so, as we're reading over the applications, we came across Sarah's application... [00:03:03] Jennifer Love: And we recongnized Sarah's name immediately because she was someone we've seen popping in and out of our prayer sessions every couple of years. And each time she shows up, she experiences some form of major breakthrough. And since these questions were on the application for the course, we, for the first time, got to hear about how these public pray through it, sessions had impacted Sarah's life. I say for the first time,

The Joy and Pain of Motherhood (Sample Sermon) In this Episode Don demonstrates how to integrate listening in prayer during a main message, inviting God into the conversation so that He might help your hearers apply the word on an individualized basis. Note: Prayers are located at: 00:02:45; 00:15:53; and 00:23:34.  [00:00:00] Don Love: Mothers tend to cover things pretty well. They can put on their Sunday dress and bring their family to church and you don't necessarily know the burdens that the mothers are carrying. You don't know the reason why they're so over-protective or overbearing or easily frustrated is because of the things that they're trying to protect you from that they went through in their own childhood. And they just haven't quite processed how do they protect you whenever they feel like no one else sees danger. So this Mothers Day, let's prayerfully take a posture of rejoicing for those who rejoice, but also mourning for those who mourn. [00:00:38] [00:00:59] Jennifer Love: Last episode, we gave you a sample sermon modeling, the kind of lesson that our team has taught to conservative, biblically centered congregations, to help them to better understand the role of the Holy Spirit and the biblical foundation for conversational prayer (that's both speaking and listening in prayer). And we modeled what it looks like to lead a whole church to listen in prayer for the first time! [00:01:19] And this episode will model how to incorporate listening in prayer during your Sunday sermon, helping your church family to apply the sermon on the spot, through listening and prayer. This sermon is one that Don just delivered in order to help prepare our church to better serve one another. And the unseen struggles that often surface during Mothers Day. I was encouraged that he addressed some of the hidden hurts that aren't often mentioned in a church service. [00:01:40] And to hear feedback of mothers who were unexpectedly moved to have some healing conversations with their kids. Conversations, they didn't realize needed to happen, but that the Lord brought up to them in prayer. So whether you're listening as a mother, a son or daughter, or a pastor, and it's our hope that this sermon will help you not only reconsider how you approach Mothers Day, but also the role that listening in prayer could play in your church service, helping your church family to apply the message through prayer in a very personal way as we pray expectedly for the Lord to enter into the conversation. [00:02:16] Don Love: Next week, if you haven't put it on your calendar, it's Mothers Day. Whether we be a mother or not, it might be helpful for us to look at one of the most famous mothers of all time, Mary, the mother of Jesus, and look at some of the interactions between Mary and Jesus throughout scripture. And I'm hoping that as we look through what it was like to raise Jesus, that it will refocus a bit the way we think about the sacrifice of mothers. And then also the way that we celebrate Mothers Day, just next week. So let's begin and let's pray. Lord we ask, would you guide us today, as we consider what it was like to be the mother of Jesus? We ask, would you have mercy on mothers and aspiring mothers as we face the joys and struggles of motherhood, today? Amen. If you guys have your Bibles, you might want to pop up these passages to look at the greater context we're going to have about five passages that we look at today. The first one is Luke 2:35 and the quote is "your soul will be pierced with a sword also." So this is from Jesus's baby dedication, essentially. Simeon is going to take Jesus in his arms. And he's going to praise God saying "sovereign Lord, as you've promised, you may now dismiss your servant in peace for my eyes, have seen your salvation, which you prepared in the sight of all nations, a light for revelation to the Gentiles and glory of your people, Israel, this is a pretty amazing baby dedication.

The Holy Spirit and Prayer (Sample Sermon and Prayer) [00:00:00] Don Love: This is the New Covenant. That's better than the Old Covenant! And it's not just about having the Bible. It's about having God with us, Emanuel, indwelling us. The Spirit of God is inside of us. There's something powerful about this. It's not just about Jesus dying for our sins that we can go to heaven someday, and we need to preach the gospel till he comes. It's about the Spirit of God, abiding in us and us in Him, it's not about just us moving into the father's house someday. It's us having fellowship with the Father and the Son through the Spirit until that day that we move into that house. [00:00:30] [00:00:37] [00:00:58] Don Love: Part of our ministry at pray through it as speaking to conservative churches about prayer and the role of the Holy Spirit demonstrating the biblical foundation of conversational prayer (that's both speaking and listening in prayer). And how this listening in prayer is so essential to experience inner healing and intimacy with God Recently, what's been especially exciting is the churches that we have been speaking in more and more, are churches led by pastors whom first experienced life changed through praying through things with us, then planted seeds by unashamedly sharing their testimony of struggle and healing with their congregations, and then, at the proper time invited us not only to speak, but to begin helping to develop their prayer teams. You heard last episode from one of those pastors. In this episode, we want to share a sample sermon with you where we open up the Gospel of John and 1 Thessalonians to discuss the relationship between the role of the Holy Spirit and praying without ceasing. Then the sermon and the episode concludes as we model what it looks like to lead a whole church to listen in prayer, for the first time. [00:02:08] Dale Pierce: You will be blessed this morning by this couple by what they have to bring I met Don probably four or five years ago now at one of the Word and Spirit gatherings in the free church in Knoxville. And we were doing some listening prayer together, and Don kind of stepped in and I was praying with Don over a man next to me. And as Don prayed, he was helping this man kind of unpack some of his things and reflecting with the father over some things that were going on in his heart. And I could hear things going on in my heart, reflecting on what this guy was saying as Don, was leading Him. And through that time, I actually was healed of some of the sin and brokenness that was in my heart as Don was praying for this guy. And that's where our friendship kind of kicked off. And Jen and I had been a part of some things that they've done with Christ Community up in Greeley. And so it's just a privilege to be able to have someone come who will help us lean into not only who the Holy Spirit is or how God wants to work in us through that, but how we can listen to Him for ourselves and help others in that regard as well. And so I'm excited to have Don and Jennifer here. Don, Jennifer come up and lead us the scripture and then lead us in the way that Father leads you. [00:03:17] Don Love: Yeah, It's been a privilege getting to know Dale to just see his desire, not just to know God's word alone, but to have that personal relationship that comes alive as you're knowing the God of the Bible and now we're getting a stay at their house. That's really cool when you get to actually stay at the pastor's house and not everybody gets to do that. This is my wife Jen and we've been married now for almost 20 years. We have a ministry that we started is called Pray Through It Ministries. Today we're going to be focusing in, especially on John 14 and 1 Thessalonians 5. So you might want to pull out your Bibles now to John 14. And we're going to be considering today, the role of the Holy Spirit in relationship to our prayer life. So I'm going to be looking at this John passage h...

[00:00:00] Jeff Foote: I'm a pastor's kid. I've known the scripture. I'm a Timothy award winner in Awana. I've grown up with it all. I have good little boy syndrome sometimes, but similar to you, I was studying the scriptures and realizing there are things here, both implicit and explicit  that say I should be experiencing more of a conversational relationship with the Holy Spirit.  When it comes to the theology of the Holy Spirit in the tradition I come from, the phrase is open, but cautious. I've never been open, but cautious about Christology. Was Jesus fully God fully, man, I don't know I'm going to be open, but cautious. Like, no, you, you discern what the scripture teaches and then you live there. And I was on this journey of saying, you know, I'm a word centered guy, authority of scripture alone, Sola scriptura. But if it teaches a theology of the Spirit that I'm not living, then I have bad theology. . [00:01:23] Don Love: If you have been following us since last season, you'll remember the testimony from Jeff foot. One of the pastors that we pray through things with three years ago, here's a clip of his testimony from last season to jog your memory. [00:01:38] Jeff Foote: I'm not a cessationist but I am skeptical. I've been a pastor over 20 years. I've been in a lot of counseling sessions. I've been trained in biblical counseling. This was the best counseling I've ever had. And he never asked me any counseling questions. This weird family story came back to me. And I thought this is weird. I didn't want it to be like throwing in. Tell me about your mom telling you about your dad. Like daddy wounds because I don't have those. I was raised in a very godly home. But it kind of threw this story out and immediately he said, okay, Jesus help them understand this story, why is this significant? Why did it come to mind now? And I'm like, well, I'm thinking to myself, he came to my now because I had to say something. But in that exact moment, it was like a tidal wave, like a tsunami from the bottom of my soul. I finally had words for what my soul had been struggling with for 43 years. And I couldn't even get that next sentence out without just coming completely unglued. Because I knew that's the sentence. That was the phrase. So for me, again, I was suspicious, but open. I played along and then the Spirit gave my soul language. And that was my experience. And so. I immediately, I got to figure out how to do this and it was just a phenomenal thing. So, that's my story. [00:03:06] Don Love: After Jeff and I prayed through things together, Jeff was open with his congregation about his struggles. He recounted how this prayer session helped and shaped the way that he ministered. And since then he has taken intentional steps to prepare his congregation, to be expectant in prayer. He used the term expectant prayer to describe the back and forth conversation with God, rather than listening prayer, because in his area, the term listening, prayer carried a connotation that was not at all what we mean when we talk about listening and inner healing, prayer, and even when, as far as to design and teach a course on the Holy Spirit, to help them better understand what the Bible has to say about the role of the Holy Spirit today. And so now as Jen and I come out three years later, his church had an unquenchable thirst to learn and grow and conversational prayer with the Lord. And now let's get to the interview. [00:03:56] Jeff, if you'll tell everyone a little bit about how we met and how our relationship has kind of developed over time. [00:04:03] Jeff Foote: Yeah. I was struggling with some anxiety after 25 years of being a pastor. And the Lord connected a bunch of dots for me throughout that and got to a point where there was a clear sentence that he put in my heart, that we were able to diagnose was a lie. And He replaced a misplaced sense of responsibility with creativity. And it was exactly what I needed for kind of the...

Alan and Raylene Kraft with Hope Abounds Ministry in Greeley Colorado [00:00:00] Raylene Kraft: I had already been on this journey of just realizing God actually speaks and that prayer is a dialogue and not just a list. I still remember the guy we prayed for the first time we kind of started this and it was this cowboy kind of manly man. And, he left the session and it was really cool, but then we cleaned up and kinda did the room and then as we were leaving, he was still out in the parking lot. Jumping and dancing around his pickup, shouting I hear from God, and I thought, yes, you do. We all do. And so that's just been our journey of just wanting to help other people experience that. [00:01:25] Don Love: Hello. I'm Don love the host of unquenchable, and this is my bride ministry partner and Co-host Jennifer Love. [00:01:32] Jennifer Love: That's Me! We've finished last season, talking about ministry to pastors. As we had a short prayer session, we led at a pastors conference in Tennessee. You can go back and listen to episodes 19 and 20 to hear some of the testimonies that came out of that conference. [00:01:46] Don Love: That conference was three years ago now. And Jen and I just finished our 10 day Pray Through It tour through Colorado, where we followed up with these pastors from season one. And on this trip, helped their congregation to take the next steps by demonstrating and explaining the biblical basis for listening and inner healing prayer in their churches. In the next few episodes among other things, we'll be discussing a bit about how the growing understanding of these pastors practice of listening in prayer is reshaping the way that they and their people minister to one another. But before we introduce our guests today, we have a few upcoming events. In March, we have a soul care retreat and a castle in Lexington, North Carolina. [00:02:25] Jennifer Love: In April, we have a women's retreat in Lynchburg, Virginia, [00:02:28] Don Love: And keep an eye out for details about an in-person pray through training coming up in may. [00:02:34] Jennifer Love: You can check out, Pray Through It.com for details. And while you're listening, why not help us to reach others by giving us a five star view, and maybe writing a sentence or two telling others what they can expect to get from listening to the show. Last season. I mentioned that we had the privilege of staying at the house of Alan Kraft. He's the lead pastor of Christ community church in Greeley, Colorado, and the author of More: When Just a Little of the Spirit is Not Enough. What we didn't mention was that Alan was among the pastors that we prayed through things with at that conference in Tennessee. [00:03:02] Don Love: At that time, I didn't know who he was, nor that he and his wife Rayleen were well on their way to lead their church, to practice in their own approach, to listening and inner-healing prayer. What perhaps amazes me the most about Alan is how engaged he is in learning and how quickly he applies, what he's learning in his own walk and in his church. When we first met, he watched, as I prayed through things with another pastor. And when we were done praying, he slid into the seat beside me and said, you've got time for one more? And so we prayed through some things with him as well, that day. And then later that same day, Alan told me, you know, I really like your approach in listening in prayer, and I'm going to implement some of these things in my church sometimes soon. What really shocked me though was later that same week, he called me with a listening and inner healing prayer that he had written and he was telling me that he was going to use that, that very Sunday in his church. And then I was shocked again, as he offered to host a training in his church the very next month. And the more that I've gotten to know, Alan, the more that I see there's something in the way that he leads his congregation that exemplifies the Ap...

Season 2 Ep 1: God is a Good Father [00:00:00] Jay Breish: One of my children was very, very sick and we didn't know if they were going to live. It was in those storms when I was seeking him that I began to recognize how he was speaking. God connected me with someone who was familiar with listening and inner healing, prayer. They prayed with me and I saw some radical transformations in a moment from that time of prayer. It gave me permission to say, I can talk to God about anything. And it doesn't have to just be me whining and complaining and begging and pleading and hoping. It could be, maybe, God actually does want to give me the desires of my heart. [00:01:04] Don Love: Scripture tells us to taste and see the God is good. And as we pray through things with folks, we're finding confirmation that God is a good father who wants to speak to his children. Even before salvation, his spirit is working in our hearts to draw us to himself. He's there gently waiting to carry our burdens and to give us life. My name is Don Love and today I've invited Jay Breish to join us, to share a bit about how his daughter's illness and a listening and inner healing prayer session led him to uncover the lies he was believing about himself, and God and how this new understanding of prayer rippled out into the counselors in this counseling ministry and the troubled teens they ministered to. Jay's someone we got to know over the last year. And I got to say, I really love this guy. He's a counselor at heart, and I've watched him time and time again, as he and his wife come to the rescue of those in need, helping folks process life through. They seem to be especially gifted when it comes to helping people in crisis mode, bringing joy into the situation as they meet each urgent need. This makes sense because he and his wife, Hannah spent many years ministering at a residential home for troubled youth. So Jay, welcome to the show. [00:02:15] Jay Breish: Thanks for having me. It's good to be here. [00:02:17] Don Love: Jay, would you tell us a bit about how you came to discover listening and inner healing prayer in your own life? [00:02:24] Jay Breish: Yeah. You know, , it's kind of a long story. When I think about it, we have a tendency to say, oh, well, on this day, this is what the Lord did in my life. But the Lord has been stirring me. And speaking to me and with me and guiding me since I was a child. And I don't think that's unusual for us. I just think that most of the time we don't recognize it. Yeah. , so I grew up in a Bible believing conservative church, wonderful men and women of God taught us the importance of scripture and I grew up in that environment where people look to the word of God for their truth and their direction. And that's great. And that is true. And yet, sometimes we miss the intimate guidance and direction that God has provided for us by, indwelling us with his Holy Spirit. He's called the comforter and the guide, the counselor. And so I didn't have a whole lot of training in that growing up and yet I look back and somehow God was directing me ministering to me. Refocusing me in the midst of life's challenges and storms. I just wasn't aware of it until much later. So, for me, the journey actually began more with, I think, identity and learning who I am as a son and who he is as a good father and the gifts and the inheritance that come with that beyond just salvation and beyond, just His written word, but how in the moment he wants to be with us to comfort us and to guide us. And it was in those storms when I was seeking him that I began to recognize how he was speaking. [00:04:13] Don Love: So, do you have some examples of those first moments where it started to dawn on you, that what you were hearing was actually the Lord leading you rather than their own thoughts or something else? [00:04:22] Jay Breish: Yeah, I mean some of the biggest times I remember it all came out of crisis, honestly.

Transcript: Unquenchable Podcast: Season 2 EP 0: Intro and Overview of Season 2 [00:00:00] Don Love: Welcome to season two of Unquenchable equipping and inspiring you and your church to discover prayer practices that renew hearts and minds. [00:00:08] A lot has happened since last season among other things Pray Through It is now a 501(C)3 nonprofit. And along with that comes more retreats and trainings. And we've now started a Prayer Leader Collective online and in person where listening and inner healing, prayer leaders meet monthly to learn from notable inner healing and deliverance ministers. [00:00:28] And now we're gearing up to launch our own residential and Online Prayer School. [00:00:33] My name's Don Love, and I'm here today with my bride of almost 20 years and my ministry partner, Jennifer Love to give you a sneak peek into season two of unquenchable. [00:00:43] Jennifer Love: Hello [00:00:44] Don Love: if you listened to last season, you know that Jen and I are listening and inner healing, prayer leaders who came out of a conservative Christian background that didn't really talk about the listening side of prayer, let alone inner healing or deliverance. Although we had both been trained in biblically-grounded [00:01:00] universities and seminaries that spoke about the role of the holy spirit in a theological way. We were taught very little about the practical side of his role and the role that listening and inner healing prayer can play in our Christian lives. [00:01:14] Jennifer Love: Last season's focus was on how our paradigm shifted as our lives and the lives of those. We prayed through things with experience, deep inner healing and intimacy with Christ through prayer. And we will never be the same. It's revolutionized the way that we view what it means to have a personal relationship with Jesus and how we've gone about to minister, to others. [00:01:31] Don Love: All that was happening was very much in line with the stories and teachings of scripture. What one might expect if they took the Bible. Several times a week, we would see people experienced breakthrough that they thought would never come, through prayer. And the college students we were praying with were going out right after their prayer sessions with little or no training and we're seeing similar breakthroughs with their friends and relatives as they lead them in similar ways. It was almost as though their realization [00:02:00] that a sustained and expectant two-way conversation with God was all that was needed for them to pray through things with others. [00:02:08] Jennifer Love: Back then, we hadn't really heard about other prayer approaches that were coming out of other denominations. Some that you may have heard of like Emmanuel Prayer, Theophostic Prayer Transformation Prayer, Christian Healing Ministries, Restoring the Foundations, SOZO, HeartSync. There's many of them out there! We hadn't heard of them. And so we were under the impression that listening and inner-healing prayer is not something that really requires training. It's something that anybody can do and they should do. And so we were kind of hesitant to study these approaches because it seemed as though they were imposing an unnecessary structure on prayer. But in hindsight, much of what was coming naturally to us was very much a part of the things that God was already doing in these various schools of prayer that we're spanning across every denomination. And as we would learn later, unknowingly, our approach was influenced by leaders from some of those approaches we didn't yet know about. [00:02:56] Don Love: But as we began more formerly discipling prayer leaders for our own team, we [00:03:00] realized that we too had an unconscious form of structure. Even Jesus gave his disciples structure when he gave them what we call The Lord's Prayer. And we started to see in our own trainings that it's especially helpful for beginners to have some structure...

In episode 19, we shared how a single short demonstration of listening in prayer resulted in breakthrough for one pastor in issues causing him fear and anxiety. This demonstration led to a string of conferences where we led each church to hone their skills in listening and inner-healing prayer. In this episode, two pastors share about their experiences praying through things and we end out our season with Don leading us in listening prayer.

When Don is invited into the Word and Spirit Pastor's Conference, he is given five minutes to demonstrate corporate listening and inner-healing prayer. Within 3 minutes one pastor begins weeping because of how the Lord is ministering to him through prayer. In this episode, this pastor shares about how this 5-10 minute prayer session was one of the most pivotal moments of his spiritual life where he noticed, "A remarkable difference, a remarkable change in trajectory and a freedom." Now, almost 3 years later, this pastor describes how he continues to experience freedom from the fear and worry of spiritual things and a spiritual anxiety rooted back to his Native American grandmother. And he shares his surprise of how what transpired was so quick and simple as Don helped him to pray through it. 

Don and Jen discuss prayer walking, foreign missions, and the growing influence of Pray Through It among Pastors and Parachurch Leaders. Along the way, they share an audio testimony of how one woman found freedom as she surrendered the lies that she was told by her abuser.

In this episode, Don meets with Curtis, a Sophomore who heard “rumblings on the dorm” concerning what was happening in Don's classes and in our Tower Prayer Meetings. Curtis' relationship with his father led him to a strained relationship with the Lord, but when a friend from Don's Biblical Theology said that what was happening was “the real deal,” Curtis sought Don out in order to pray through the things that were getting in the way of experiencing intimacy with Christ. As Curtis experienced inner-healing through prayer, he found himself struggling to understand if what was going on was truly biblical and for today. Today, Curtis explained how he processed what happened and why he joined our Pray Through It Prayer Team.

Don and Jen recount what happened when things came to a head when they were called into the Dean's office to describe what it was that they were doing in their prayer meetings. In the process, Don shares a testimony of a Squishy Tree to test if the Deans were really open to what was happening on campus through prayer.

The student we are interviewing today was not a believer at the time. And at first, he sat in the front row mocking Don as he led the class in prayer. That is, until he began to understand what he was seeing. Perhaps there was something more to Christianity than what he experienced growing up as a child physically and verbally abused at the hands of his father (who was a well-respected Deacon at their church)? After the suicide of a friend from bootcamp, this Marine considered the possibility that he might experience what he saw happening in the lives of other students during the class prayer sessions. By the end of the semester, this student would give his life to Christ, experience freedom from the literal and figurative demons in his life, and share his testimony in front of the entire class as he was baptized in the pond on campus. This testimony demonstrates that even those who do not yet know Christ can benefit from listening in prayer. In fact, they might just accept them as their Lord and Savior in the process. 

This episode continues to explore what happened when Don stepped out and began leading his New Testament Survey class of 500 students on a conservative evangelical campus to listen in prayer. This student shares his experience with Don for the first time, recounting  how he went from thinking that the things that were happening in class were "Insane" to realizing that what was happening may hold the key to overcoming the childhood trauma that he experienced as he watched his mother time and time again choose alcohol over family. As he cried out to God, he discovered that God was listening and that with his help he could finally be released from the suffering of his past and of his own unforgiveness.

Don and a former student describes what happened when he led his class of 500 undergrad students to listen in prayer in his New Testament Survey class. For the student, this results in a new-found understanding of salvation and the conviction of the Holy Spirit.

After surrendering his career to Christ, Don waited for God's leading on when to begin leading his classes in listening and inner-healing prayer. In this episode, Don shares about the first class where he led his students in corporate listening prayer - an upper-level Biblical Theology class filled with campus leaders. One of those students shares her testimony concerning how she was freed to love others when she was able to be released from her own self-hatred.

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. You can access our prayer handbook at www.Pray Through It. com / media. You can find out more about our upcoming prayer retreats at www.Pray Through It.com / events.

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. For more info about our ministry visit us at www.praythroughit.com 

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.

Jen shares about how Neil Anderson's "Steps to Freedom" and her prayer "Lord, in any ways you have spoken to your people in scripture, would you speak to me?" led her to begin to see prayer in a new light; Don shares how you are likely already practicing listening prayer, regardless of your church background.

In this premier episode we briefly introduce our hosts Dr. Don Love, Jennifer Love, and Chris Darius and give a little teaser for what is to come this season. You will hear a bit about: how a curious question from one of his college students about Jesus led Dr. Love to what has been called listening and inner-healing prayer; how that changed the course of his life and ministry; and a brief discussion about the Biblical basis for listening prayer from John 14-17.