1 00:00:02,720 --> 00:00:03,520 Speaker 1: Life Audio. 2 00:00:09,880 --> 00:00:12,959 Speaker 2: Hi there, and welcome to the Praying Christian Women podcast, 3 00:00:13,360 --> 00:00:15,920 Speaker 2: where we talk about the deep questions about prayer that 4 00:00:15,960 --> 00:00:19,919 Speaker 2: we're all thinking about but sometimes afraid to ask. Whether 5 00:00:19,960 --> 00:00:21,759 Speaker 2: you're new to the faith or have been a believer 6 00:00:21,840 --> 00:00:25,079 Speaker 2: for decades, this podcast will be your go to for 7 00:00:25,160 --> 00:00:29,800 Speaker 2: biblical encouragement, inspiration, and practical tips to equip you with 8 00:00:29,840 --> 00:00:32,040 Speaker 2: the tools you need to live out a more passionate, 9 00:00:32,440 --> 00:00:35,920 Speaker 2: powerful prayer life so that together we can change the world, 10 00:00:36,680 --> 00:00:37,760 Speaker 2: one prayer at a time. 11 00:00:41,440 --> 00:00:44,519 Speaker 3: Hello, welcome to the Praying Christian Women Podcast. I am 12 00:00:44,560 --> 00:00:45,960 Speaker 3: Milana here with Jamie. 13 00:00:46,040 --> 00:00:46,479 Speaker 1: How are you. 14 00:00:47,080 --> 00:00:50,960 Speaker 2: I'm doing great? Good, Happy New Year. I know, how 15 00:00:50,960 --> 00:00:53,080 Speaker 2: can it be twenty twenty six? 16 00:00:53,640 --> 00:00:55,959 Speaker 3: Well, technically it's not, because you and I are still 17 00:00:56,000 --> 00:00:59,000 Speaker 3: recording this in twenty twenty five, so we're just going 18 00:00:59,040 --> 00:01:04,000 Speaker 3: on faith. The year turned and everything is still going. 19 00:01:03,800 --> 00:01:06,160 Speaker 1: Okay, Yes, yes, indeed. 20 00:01:06,120 --> 00:01:09,360 Speaker 3: And happy New Year to everybody listening. We are thrilled 21 00:01:09,480 --> 00:01:13,560 Speaker 3: that we get to worship Jesus with you another twelve months, 22 00:01:13,800 --> 00:01:16,400 Speaker 3: and we are glad to have you on this journey 23 00:01:16,440 --> 00:01:19,840 Speaker 3: with us. Today, in the spirit of New Year's we 24 00:01:19,880 --> 00:01:23,200 Speaker 3: are going to be talking about habits that might be 25 00:01:23,600 --> 00:01:27,119 Speaker 3: or could be or probably are hurting your prayer life. 26 00:01:27,360 --> 00:01:30,479 Speaker 3: And we're not going to be talking just about spiritual habits. 27 00:01:30,560 --> 00:01:33,600 Speaker 3: We will also be talking about lifestyle habits and things 28 00:01:33,640 --> 00:01:36,560 Speaker 3: like that. The topic is a little off for us 29 00:01:36,680 --> 00:01:40,160 Speaker 3: because usually the more praying Christian women. Any way to 30 00:01:40,200 --> 00:01:43,720 Speaker 3: do it would be like good habits to improve your 31 00:01:43,760 --> 00:01:47,240 Speaker 3: prayer life, because you and I are both positive, optimistic 32 00:01:47,319 --> 00:01:50,720 Speaker 3: people and we don't want to do anything that is 33 00:01:50,920 --> 00:01:55,400 Speaker 3: guilt or shame inducing. But in a spirit of gentleness 34 00:01:55,400 --> 00:01:58,000 Speaker 3: and encouragement, we do want to talk about some bad 35 00:01:58,080 --> 00:02:02,040 Speaker 3: habits that are harming a lot of people's prayer lives. 36 00:02:02,040 --> 00:02:03,440 Speaker 3: And we don't want to give this as one size 37 00:02:03,480 --> 00:02:05,920 Speaker 3: fits all. If we say something is a bad habit 38 00:02:05,960 --> 00:02:08,680 Speaker 3: that hurts your prayer life, take that to mean this 39 00:02:08,760 --> 00:02:11,520 Speaker 3: is a habit that is probably hurting eighty five percent 40 00:02:11,520 --> 00:02:13,840 Speaker 3: of people's prayer lives. And then you get to decide 41 00:02:13,840 --> 00:02:16,160 Speaker 3: for you if it's applicable or not. 42 00:02:16,520 --> 00:02:18,160 Speaker 1: I love it all right. 43 00:02:18,240 --> 00:02:21,240 Speaker 2: Our verse of the day is from Romans chapter twelve, 44 00:02:21,320 --> 00:02:24,440 Speaker 2: Verse two from the NIV. Do not conform to the 45 00:02:24,480 --> 00:02:27,400 Speaker 2: pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing 46 00:02:27,440 --> 00:02:27,960 Speaker 2: of your mind. 47 00:02:28,520 --> 00:02:30,600 Speaker 3: Well that love the idea of your mind being renewed. 48 00:02:30,680 --> 00:02:33,839 Speaker 3: I love the idea of New York being a time 49 00:02:33,840 --> 00:02:35,800 Speaker 3: for that. It's so funny because there's part of me 50 00:02:36,160 --> 00:02:39,799 Speaker 3: that likes to say January first is an arbitrary date 51 00:02:39,840 --> 00:02:42,480 Speaker 3: that means nothing, so we don't need to make a 52 00:02:42,480 --> 00:02:47,200 Speaker 3: big deal about it, which logically is true. However, January 53 00:02:47,280 --> 00:02:50,840 Speaker 3: first is a date that has been assigned cultural significance, 54 00:02:51,200 --> 00:02:54,880 Speaker 3: and therefore it does make a difference. Right, So, I 55 00:02:54,919 --> 00:02:57,600 Speaker 3: know some people have done, for example, a forty day 56 00:02:57,639 --> 00:03:01,519 Speaker 3: fast with your church. Could you start a fast any day? 57 00:03:01,560 --> 00:03:05,919 Speaker 3: You absolutely could? Is there something powerful and special about 58 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:08,560 Speaker 3: doing it in a group and in a community that 59 00:03:08,639 --> 00:03:14,639 Speaker 3: can include some extra inspiration and extra accountability? Absolutely? So 60 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:17,440 Speaker 3: I just wanted to throw that out there. Yes, whenever 61 00:03:17,480 --> 00:03:20,560 Speaker 3: you are listening to this episode, these are habits that 62 00:03:20,600 --> 00:03:23,760 Speaker 3: you can prayer fully ask yourself and ask the Lord 63 00:03:23,880 --> 00:03:27,119 Speaker 3: are these hurting my prayer life? But there is something 64 00:03:27,360 --> 00:03:32,880 Speaker 3: special about reassessing at New Year's And yeah, if our 65 00:03:33,200 --> 00:03:37,040 Speaker 3: cultural celebrations celebrated New Year in the spring, this would 66 00:03:37,040 --> 00:03:39,840 Speaker 3: be a meaningful activity to do then, But since we 67 00:03:39,880 --> 00:03:42,000 Speaker 3: do it on January first, let's do it right now. 68 00:03:42,280 --> 00:03:44,720 Speaker 1: I love that so for just for fun. 69 00:03:45,400 --> 00:03:47,720 Speaker 3: Is there a bad habit or something that you have 70 00:03:47,840 --> 00:03:49,200 Speaker 3: given up this past year. 71 00:03:49,640 --> 00:03:52,720 Speaker 2: So I didn't intentionally give it up, but I feel 72 00:03:52,720 --> 00:03:55,760 Speaker 2: like I have in the last year as I kind 73 00:03:55,760 --> 00:03:59,600 Speaker 2: of reflect, I have not been doing as much negative 74 00:03:59,640 --> 00:04:03,640 Speaker 2: self talk as that's great, done like that was something 75 00:04:03,680 --> 00:04:06,839 Speaker 2: that I've always struggled with, and honestly, in the last 76 00:04:06,920 --> 00:04:09,960 Speaker 2: couple of days, I have, at the risk of TMI, 77 00:04:10,240 --> 00:04:14,440 Speaker 2: had so many just awful hormonal fluctuations and I have 78 00:04:14,560 --> 00:04:19,760 Speaker 2: been just emotionally volatile. I have negatively self talked more 79 00:04:19,760 --> 00:04:22,240 Speaker 2: in the last two days than I can remember. And 80 00:04:22,279 --> 00:04:24,240 Speaker 2: so that was kind of what made me realize how 81 00:04:24,279 --> 00:04:28,159 Speaker 2: far I've come, was the swing and I was able 82 00:04:28,160 --> 00:04:30,600 Speaker 2: to recover from it, though. I was able to recognize 83 00:04:30,600 --> 00:04:33,000 Speaker 2: it immediately and just say, wait, that's not who I am, 84 00:04:33,560 --> 00:04:37,080 Speaker 2: that's not what we do. And so that was kind 85 00:04:37,120 --> 00:04:40,280 Speaker 2: of a cool thing to kind of allow that negative 86 00:04:40,360 --> 00:04:43,920 Speaker 2: thing to shine a light on the fact that I've 87 00:04:43,960 --> 00:04:46,600 Speaker 2: actually made progress in that area. 88 00:04:47,279 --> 00:04:48,640 Speaker 1: Yeah, that's wonderful. 89 00:04:49,040 --> 00:04:53,360 Speaker 3: Speaking of hormones, I was reading a thriller and the 90 00:04:53,600 --> 00:04:56,840 Speaker 3: mom is going to like complete mental breakdown and her 91 00:04:56,880 --> 00:05:00,840 Speaker 3: life is in chaos and her team daughter is really 92 00:05:00,880 --> 00:05:03,480 Speaker 3: really worried about her and she comes up to turns to 93 00:05:03,520 --> 00:05:05,800 Speaker 3: this mom, do you have menopause? 94 00:05:06,360 --> 00:05:08,719 Speaker 1: And it was just such a cute way to put it. 95 00:05:09,080 --> 00:05:12,159 Speaker 3: So anytime you get those symptoms, just ask yourself, do 96 00:05:12,200 --> 00:05:15,520 Speaker 3: I have menopause? And maybe that'll give you a little chuckle. 97 00:05:16,080 --> 00:05:19,200 Speaker 2: I'm gonna get a shirt that says got menopause? 98 00:05:19,960 --> 00:05:20,560 Speaker 1: Yes, right. 99 00:05:20,560 --> 00:05:23,000 Speaker 2: I don't know what the image would be like got milk, 100 00:05:23,040 --> 00:05:25,720 Speaker 2: because you know the mill that what would be the 101 00:05:25,800 --> 00:05:30,400 Speaker 2: imagery that we would imagery with gotas like a raising 102 00:05:30,480 --> 00:05:31,840 Speaker 2: mill pulling her hair out? 103 00:05:32,839 --> 00:05:37,440 Speaker 3: No, got milk is black with the white lettering. Okay, okay, 104 00:05:37,520 --> 00:05:40,400 Speaker 3: so this would have to be white with red lettering 105 00:05:40,680 --> 00:05:42,760 Speaker 3: and the dot of the question mark would have to 106 00:05:42,760 --> 00:05:43,880 Speaker 3: be like a blood drop. 107 00:05:44,120 --> 00:05:46,400 Speaker 1: There you go, that's what it would be. 108 00:05:46,960 --> 00:05:50,800 Speaker 2: This is back in our merch store that's right later 109 00:05:50,960 --> 00:05:54,799 Speaker 2: this year and you'll find it Brain Christian Woman Special. 110 00:05:55,920 --> 00:05:57,160 Speaker 1: The Menopause Collection. 111 00:05:59,640 --> 00:06:02,880 Speaker 3: Well yeah, well, in terms of bad habits, I have 112 00:06:03,040 --> 00:06:06,000 Speaker 3: given up a lot of dietary stuff this year. I'm 113 00:06:06,240 --> 00:06:09,960 Speaker 3: totally coffee free and caffeine free, which if you told 114 00:06:09,960 --> 00:06:11,960 Speaker 3: me this twelve months ago, that I would have just 115 00:06:12,040 --> 00:06:15,520 Speaker 3: stopped drinking coffee, and I would have been like, sorry, 116 00:06:15,640 --> 00:06:17,000 Speaker 3: who are you talking to you? 117 00:06:17,400 --> 00:06:17,679 Speaker 2: Right? 118 00:06:17,800 --> 00:06:22,160 Speaker 3: So, coffee, dairy, and red meat are the three things 119 00:06:22,200 --> 00:06:25,880 Speaker 3: that I found that made the biggest impact on my inflammation. 120 00:06:26,600 --> 00:06:28,280 Speaker 2: And again, in. 121 00:06:28,200 --> 00:06:30,640 Speaker 3: The spirit of everything we talk about on praying Christian women, 122 00:06:30,720 --> 00:06:34,400 Speaker 3: that doesn't mean that anybody who experiences occasional inflammation needs 123 00:06:34,400 --> 00:06:36,640 Speaker 3: to give up those three things. But those were the 124 00:06:36,720 --> 00:06:40,520 Speaker 3: three things that I found to be my biggest triggers. 125 00:06:40,920 --> 00:06:46,040 Speaker 3: And I am really really thankful giving up coffee. 126 00:06:46,080 --> 00:06:49,120 Speaker 1: I've told you this. My body decided it for me, and. 127 00:06:49,680 --> 00:06:52,040 Speaker 3: Oftentimes like oh, you know, she drank a cup of 128 00:06:52,040 --> 00:06:54,000 Speaker 3: coffee and got six so she didn't want anymore. It 129 00:06:54,040 --> 00:06:56,560 Speaker 3: wasn't anything like that. It was like I was enjoying 130 00:06:56,560 --> 00:06:58,800 Speaker 3: my cup, it was halfway to my mouth, and my 131 00:06:58,880 --> 00:07:00,760 Speaker 3: body was just like, nope, no more of this, And 132 00:07:00,800 --> 00:07:03,120 Speaker 3: like that was literally I think I had maybe like 133 00:07:03,720 --> 00:07:06,120 Speaker 3: one cup a week later, like a couple SIPs a 134 00:07:06,120 --> 00:07:10,040 Speaker 3: week later, just to see if nope, it was gone. 135 00:07:10,320 --> 00:07:13,000 Speaker 3: So I was really thankful for that, and I do 136 00:07:13,040 --> 00:07:16,480 Speaker 3: feel like my health has gotten better from some of 137 00:07:16,520 --> 00:07:17,320 Speaker 3: those changes. 138 00:07:17,880 --> 00:07:20,520 Speaker 2: If only all of our bad habits were like that, 139 00:07:20,760 --> 00:07:23,280 Speaker 2: where all of a sudden it was just like, this 140 00:07:23,480 --> 00:07:26,720 Speaker 2: isn't serving me, and you just didn't do it, you know, 141 00:07:26,800 --> 00:07:29,080 Speaker 2: because it's not true of a lot of habits. Some 142 00:07:29,120 --> 00:07:31,480 Speaker 2: habits take a lot of work. But that's why I 143 00:07:31,520 --> 00:07:34,679 Speaker 2: love this verse be transformed by the renewing of your mind. 144 00:07:34,720 --> 00:07:38,080 Speaker 2: I think if we focus on the thing and not 145 00:07:38,280 --> 00:07:41,560 Speaker 2: what's behind it and the root of it, like this 146 00:07:41,640 --> 00:07:45,080 Speaker 2: isn't serving me, well, this is causing turmoil in this 147 00:07:45,160 --> 00:07:47,000 Speaker 2: area of my life. Like, if you're just trying to 148 00:07:47,560 --> 00:07:52,440 Speaker 2: manage actions, it doesn't typically stick to the point as 149 00:07:52,520 --> 00:07:54,720 Speaker 2: much as something where you get to the root of 150 00:07:54,720 --> 00:07:57,480 Speaker 2: it and you actually feel like, oh, this isn't making 151 00:07:57,520 --> 00:08:00,400 Speaker 2: me feel well, Like that gives you a why behind 152 00:08:00,920 --> 00:08:03,680 Speaker 2: what you're doing. But habits aren't always easy to break. 153 00:08:03,800 --> 00:08:07,600 Speaker 3: So yeah, and you know, I think that arguments can 154 00:08:07,640 --> 00:08:09,720 Speaker 3: be made that there is a huge difference between a 155 00:08:09,760 --> 00:08:12,360 Speaker 3: habit and addiction, and I think arguments can be made 156 00:08:12,400 --> 00:08:16,800 Speaker 3: that habit and addiction are on the same spectrum. And 157 00:08:17,200 --> 00:08:20,720 Speaker 3: sometimes you hear testimonies of a drug addict, and sometimes 158 00:08:21,160 --> 00:08:24,120 Speaker 3: it's I got saved and I never touched another drug 159 00:08:24,200 --> 00:08:26,600 Speaker 3: or another drop of alcohol, and God took that taste 160 00:08:26,640 --> 00:08:28,080 Speaker 3: away from me and that's kind of what he did 161 00:08:28,080 --> 00:08:32,880 Speaker 3: with coffee for me. And sometimes the testimony is so 162 00:08:33,080 --> 00:08:36,120 Speaker 3: much less dramatic and there is so much more what 163 00:08:36,240 --> 00:08:40,200 Speaker 3: some would call backsliding or failure. But you know, I 164 00:08:40,240 --> 00:08:44,199 Speaker 3: think that until you have walked through addiction and recovery, 165 00:08:44,360 --> 00:08:48,479 Speaker 3: or walked with someone through it, you're not going to. 166 00:08:48,320 --> 00:08:50,120 Speaker 1: Understand, you know. 167 00:08:50,320 --> 00:08:53,560 Speaker 3: And I see both testimonies as being so powerful, and 168 00:08:53,600 --> 00:08:57,200 Speaker 3: to be honest, I don't deserve a huge pat on 169 00:08:57,240 --> 00:09:00,160 Speaker 3: the bat for giving up coffee when the thought off 170 00:09:00,200 --> 00:09:03,160 Speaker 3: we just became detestable to me, right, I was just 171 00:09:03,280 --> 00:09:08,360 Speaker 3: following the path of easiest resistance. And so if you're 172 00:09:08,480 --> 00:09:12,360 Speaker 3: struggling with something that falls on the spectrum of addiction 173 00:09:12,520 --> 00:09:15,240 Speaker 3: or is more like a clinical addiction, or you know 174 00:09:15,360 --> 00:09:17,959 Speaker 3: somebody who is, and you hear the story of somebody 175 00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:20,080 Speaker 3: who's like, yeah, and I woke up one day and 176 00:09:20,120 --> 00:09:22,720 Speaker 3: I never smoked again, and you wonder like, well, why 177 00:09:22,760 --> 00:09:25,760 Speaker 3: hasn't God done that for me? I think there is 178 00:09:25,840 --> 00:09:30,880 Speaker 3: so much more power and victory in not having that 179 00:09:30,960 --> 00:09:33,640 Speaker 3: immediate deliverance. Right, Both can be from the Lord, both 180 00:09:33,679 --> 00:09:38,480 Speaker 3: can be miraculous. One just is easier. And so if 181 00:09:38,520 --> 00:09:40,959 Speaker 3: you are walking through if I knew that I had 182 00:09:40,960 --> 00:09:43,760 Speaker 3: to give up coffee for my health, and I was 183 00:09:43,800 --> 00:09:47,240 Speaker 3: sneaking cups because I wasn't at it, and every day 184 00:09:47,320 --> 00:09:49,200 Speaker 3: I was waking up wondering when I could get my 185 00:09:49,240 --> 00:09:53,240 Speaker 3: next cup of coffee. That would be just as much 186 00:09:53,679 --> 00:09:56,320 Speaker 3: victory on all the times that I didn't drink it, 187 00:09:56,320 --> 00:09:58,320 Speaker 3: and even more so because right now it's not really 188 00:09:58,360 --> 00:09:59,240 Speaker 3: a temptation for me. 189 00:09:59,280 --> 00:10:01,920 Speaker 1: I don't want and. 190 00:10:01,760 --> 00:10:03,960 Speaker 3: So I don't know. I think there's something to be 191 00:10:04,040 --> 00:10:07,760 Speaker 3: said for remembering that even if God doesn't snap his 192 00:10:07,800 --> 00:10:10,280 Speaker 3: fingers and take away the sin or the temptation that 193 00:10:10,320 --> 00:10:13,600 Speaker 3: you're struggling with, there is victory there, and there is 194 00:10:13,640 --> 00:10:16,440 Speaker 3: gracer What do you say for your negative self talk? 195 00:10:16,480 --> 00:10:18,720 Speaker 3: Do you feel like that was more of a like 196 00:10:18,800 --> 00:10:21,280 Speaker 3: God snapped his fingers and it stopped, or do you 197 00:10:21,280 --> 00:10:24,240 Speaker 3: think it was more of a I trudged my way 198 00:10:24,280 --> 00:10:26,440 Speaker 3: through it and learned how to not do it. Or 199 00:10:26,480 --> 00:10:27,439 Speaker 3: is it somewhere in the middle. 200 00:10:27,800 --> 00:10:30,120 Speaker 1: It's kind of somewhere in the middle. So it was. 201 00:10:30,720 --> 00:10:34,160 Speaker 2: I feel like in some ways it's not as much 202 00:10:34,200 --> 00:10:38,640 Speaker 2: of a struggle anymore. But before, when it really was 203 00:10:38,679 --> 00:10:41,640 Speaker 2: a struggle, I did a lot of trudging and I 204 00:10:41,760 --> 00:10:43,920 Speaker 2: think it's kind of one of those things where, like 205 00:10:43,960 --> 00:10:47,600 Speaker 2: I said, today, just kind of realizing today and yesterday 206 00:10:47,679 --> 00:10:50,440 Speaker 2: like oh, this is something I haven't dealt with in 207 00:10:50,480 --> 00:10:53,720 Speaker 2: a long time. There's an element of oh, it was 208 00:10:53,920 --> 00:10:57,920 Speaker 2: almost gone for a while. But before that, like getting there. 209 00:10:58,120 --> 00:11:01,800 Speaker 2: I really think there was a lot of intentional taking 210 00:11:01,880 --> 00:11:06,480 Speaker 2: thoughts captive and making them into submission, into obedience, good, nice, 211 00:11:06,559 --> 00:11:10,559 Speaker 2: And so that was a gradual process of wallowing in 212 00:11:10,920 --> 00:11:17,480 Speaker 2: negative self talk, then gradually recognizing okay, feeling guilty like oh, 213 00:11:17,520 --> 00:11:20,600 Speaker 2: I've failed, and then changing my mindset. Really the key 214 00:11:20,640 --> 00:11:23,760 Speaker 2: I think was changing my mindset from oh my goodness, 215 00:11:23,760 --> 00:11:27,120 Speaker 2: I've done it again. I have descended into this negative 216 00:11:27,160 --> 00:11:29,880 Speaker 2: self talk that has just given the enemy a huge victory. 217 00:11:30,480 --> 00:11:32,920 Speaker 2: Instead of looking at it like that, I sort of 218 00:11:32,960 --> 00:11:36,600 Speaker 2: shifted into when I recognized it, thinking this is a 219 00:11:36,679 --> 00:11:39,240 Speaker 2: victory that I'm recognizing that this is wrong and I 220 00:11:39,280 --> 00:11:41,720 Speaker 2: want to do better next time. And even in the 221 00:11:41,760 --> 00:11:44,640 Speaker 2: presence of my kids, I would do it where I 222 00:11:44,640 --> 00:11:47,120 Speaker 2: would say things in front of my kids about myself 223 00:11:47,120 --> 00:11:49,040 Speaker 2: that were bad and I still do sometimes. I'm not 224 00:11:49,080 --> 00:11:53,120 Speaker 2: saying I never did, but they started reflecting back to 225 00:11:53,160 --> 00:11:55,319 Speaker 2: me like why are you doing that, Why are you 226 00:11:55,440 --> 00:11:57,880 Speaker 2: talking that way about yourself? And so so it went 227 00:11:57,920 --> 00:12:00,720 Speaker 2: from looking at all of those as instant failures to 228 00:12:01,280 --> 00:12:05,200 Speaker 2: recognizing it is a good thing, acknowledging when I'm called 229 00:12:05,240 --> 00:12:08,360 Speaker 2: out by my kids, acknowledged to them, you are so right. 230 00:12:08,440 --> 00:12:11,160 Speaker 2: I am working on this. I'm I guess a goal 231 00:12:11,200 --> 00:12:13,000 Speaker 2: that I have is to get rid of this because 232 00:12:13,040 --> 00:12:15,760 Speaker 2: it's not God glorifying, it's not true, and it's a 233 00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:17,960 Speaker 2: tool that the enemy is using to bring me down. 234 00:12:18,400 --> 00:12:20,480 Speaker 2: Like all of that, like getting it into the open 235 00:12:21,000 --> 00:12:22,880 Speaker 2: is kind of how I feel like. It's sort of 236 00:12:22,920 --> 00:12:26,400 Speaker 2: started becoming more manageable, and Praise God, got to the 237 00:12:26,400 --> 00:12:28,360 Speaker 2: point where now I look back and think, hey, I 238 00:12:28,360 --> 00:12:30,000 Speaker 2: don't struggle with that that much anymore. 239 00:12:42,559 --> 00:12:45,000 Speaker 3: Yeah, it's all about how you frame it. I remember 240 00:12:45,120 --> 00:12:48,280 Speaker 3: within the same week reading the same headline with the 241 00:12:48,280 --> 00:12:51,560 Speaker 3: exact same statistics in two different places, and in one 242 00:12:51,600 --> 00:12:54,960 Speaker 3: of them it said, you know, after one hundred years 243 00:12:55,080 --> 00:12:57,240 Speaker 3: or I don't remember how many years, but let's call 244 00:12:57,280 --> 00:13:00,480 Speaker 3: it one hundred, after one hundred years of concerted missionary effort, 245 00:13:00,600 --> 00:13:04,600 Speaker 3: South Korea is now fifty percent Christian. And then a 246 00:13:04,640 --> 00:13:08,319 Speaker 3: few days later I saw a headline that said after 247 00:13:08,360 --> 00:13:11,200 Speaker 3: one hundred years of concerted effort, only fifty percent of 248 00:13:11,240 --> 00:13:16,480 Speaker 3: South Koreans consider themselves Christian. And it's the exact same fact, 249 00:13:17,600 --> 00:13:20,840 Speaker 3: but it is worded in such a dramatically different way. 250 00:13:21,160 --> 00:13:25,160 Speaker 3: Like yesterday, my son's been baking really good bread rolls 251 00:13:25,440 --> 00:13:28,040 Speaker 3: and we's kind of iffy for me. It's one of 252 00:13:28,080 --> 00:13:30,520 Speaker 3: the ones like I can have some, but I shouldn't 253 00:13:30,920 --> 00:13:31,840 Speaker 3: have tons. 254 00:13:32,160 --> 00:13:33,160 Speaker 1: And last night I. 255 00:13:33,120 --> 00:13:35,120 Speaker 3: Had two of his bread rolls before bed and was 256 00:13:35,120 --> 00:13:36,400 Speaker 3: feeling kind of bad about it. 257 00:13:36,679 --> 00:13:38,199 Speaker 1: And I had two ways to look at it. 258 00:13:38,200 --> 00:13:40,680 Speaker 3: It was I can't believe I had the two bread rolls, 259 00:13:41,400 --> 00:13:43,559 Speaker 3: or it was yeah, I had two bread rolls, but 260 00:13:43,640 --> 00:13:45,560 Speaker 3: I wanted a third and didn't get the third. So 261 00:13:45,559 --> 00:13:46,920 Speaker 3: I'm going to celebrate that. 262 00:13:47,920 --> 00:13:51,520 Speaker 2: I mean, that's the whole growth mindset. If you're familiar 263 00:13:51,559 --> 00:13:53,480 Speaker 2: with growth mindset, you know that's a big thing. 264 00:13:53,640 --> 00:13:54,720 Speaker 1: That's growth mindset. 265 00:13:54,800 --> 00:13:58,800 Speaker 2: It's instead of I really struggle with this thing, it's 266 00:13:59,240 --> 00:14:02,120 Speaker 2: this thing doesn't serve me well and I'm working toward 267 00:14:02,280 --> 00:14:04,880 Speaker 2: becoming better, or you know, however you want to reframe it. 268 00:14:04,920 --> 00:14:08,880 Speaker 2: And there's power in that because there is momentum gained 269 00:14:09,480 --> 00:14:15,520 Speaker 2: with positivity and there is paralysis and give up aedness 270 00:14:15,880 --> 00:14:19,160 Speaker 2: with perceived failure, and like you said, you can have 271 00:14:19,200 --> 00:14:22,080 Speaker 2: the same I love the bread roll example, like, Okay, 272 00:14:22,160 --> 00:14:24,840 Speaker 2: you know what, I did this, but I didn't do this, 273 00:14:25,080 --> 00:14:26,760 Speaker 2: and so I'm going to call that a victory. I 274 00:14:26,880 --> 00:14:30,120 Speaker 2: caught it, and let's move forward and let's do better 275 00:14:30,200 --> 00:14:32,200 Speaker 2: and feel good about the victory. 276 00:14:32,400 --> 00:14:34,200 Speaker 1: So I'm a big proponent of that. 277 00:14:34,760 --> 00:14:38,200 Speaker 3: Yeah, well, that's actually a decent segue into the first 278 00:14:38,240 --> 00:14:40,920 Speaker 3: bad habit that I went into. Pinpoint that's hurting people's 279 00:14:40,960 --> 00:14:45,720 Speaker 3: prayer lives, and that is guilt that leads to prayrocrastination, 280 00:14:45,840 --> 00:14:47,560 Speaker 3: which is I think a term that you coined, and 281 00:14:47,600 --> 00:14:52,040 Speaker 3: it's a sense of oh I didn't do my quiet time, 282 00:14:52,120 --> 00:14:55,200 Speaker 3: so now my day's just shot, or oh I've got 283 00:14:55,240 --> 00:14:58,040 Speaker 3: this one sin in my life, so I'm not going 284 00:14:58,080 --> 00:14:59,920 Speaker 3: to go to God at all, or that thing where 285 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:00,240 Speaker 3: I know. 286 00:15:00,160 --> 00:15:01,040 Speaker 1: We've talked about it before. 287 00:15:01,440 --> 00:15:03,560 Speaker 3: Oh it's been so long since I called my grandma, 288 00:15:03,600 --> 00:15:06,480 Speaker 3: and I feel guilty, and so now I don't call 289 00:15:06,600 --> 00:15:09,040 Speaker 3: my grandma because I feel guilty right as opposed to 290 00:15:09,120 --> 00:15:12,280 Speaker 3: just picking up the phone and calling Grandma and not 291 00:15:12,400 --> 00:15:14,720 Speaker 3: even saying hey sorry, it's spent so long since we talked, 292 00:15:14,760 --> 00:15:16,160 Speaker 3: but saying, hey, I'm so glad we. 293 00:15:16,120 --> 00:15:16,760 Speaker 1: Get to talk. 294 00:15:17,360 --> 00:15:23,080 Speaker 3: And I think that constant guilt, constant shame is one 295 00:15:23,120 --> 00:15:26,920 Speaker 3: of the biggest bad habits that will keep us from 296 00:15:26,960 --> 00:15:30,560 Speaker 3: growing closer to the Lord. I don't see anything beneficial 297 00:15:30,920 --> 00:15:32,880 Speaker 3: that comes from that in our prayer lives. 298 00:15:33,520 --> 00:15:37,680 Speaker 2: No, And like you said, the prayer crastination, the procrastination 299 00:15:37,760 --> 00:15:41,400 Speaker 2: of praying that happens because of that, it doesn't serve anyone. 300 00:15:41,480 --> 00:15:45,680 Speaker 2: You're basically wasting time wallowing, which I'm really good at 301 00:15:45,720 --> 00:15:47,880 Speaker 2: and I do struggle. That was on my list as well. 302 00:15:48,320 --> 00:15:51,120 Speaker 2: I love a good wallow, but it doesn't do anything 303 00:15:51,400 --> 00:15:55,200 Speaker 2: except just keep us from just praying. So that's why 304 00:15:55,280 --> 00:15:57,840 Speaker 2: you know our little hashtag just pray. That's our T 305 00:15:57,960 --> 00:16:01,280 Speaker 2: shirt and our merch is that is just pray. Quit 306 00:16:01,400 --> 00:16:04,320 Speaker 2: be rating yourself. Just pray and that's it, and that 307 00:16:04,360 --> 00:16:07,440 Speaker 2: will solve so much. Yeah, I would say one for 308 00:16:07,560 --> 00:16:12,360 Speaker 2: me is constant input. I have trained myself to in 309 00:16:12,560 --> 00:16:16,320 Speaker 2: any blank space that I have to have input. So 310 00:16:16,520 --> 00:16:20,160 Speaker 2: even sometimes in the shower, I'll have a podcast going, 311 00:16:20,360 --> 00:16:22,840 Speaker 2: you know, on my phone in the corner where it's 312 00:16:22,840 --> 00:16:25,640 Speaker 2: not going to get wet, or you know, in the car, 313 00:16:25,920 --> 00:16:28,800 Speaker 2: have music on, or an episode of something you know, 314 00:16:28,880 --> 00:16:32,640 Speaker 2: podcast episode and having the a word which I can't 315 00:16:32,640 --> 00:16:35,480 Speaker 2: say her name or she'll stay somewhere in my home. 316 00:16:36,600 --> 00:16:39,800 Speaker 2: Having several what do you call them echoes makes it 317 00:16:40,040 --> 00:16:44,640 Speaker 2: very easy to just constantly have music or news or 318 00:16:44,680 --> 00:16:46,600 Speaker 2: that's what I do first thing in the morning, you know, 319 00:16:46,720 --> 00:16:50,440 Speaker 2: give me my news. And it's just I've trained myself 320 00:16:50,640 --> 00:16:54,800 Speaker 2: not to have any white space in my day, and 321 00:16:54,880 --> 00:17:00,160 Speaker 2: so occasionally I'll have these times where I intentionally don't 322 00:17:00,160 --> 00:17:01,920 Speaker 2: have anything going in the car because now that my 323 00:17:02,000 --> 00:17:04,240 Speaker 2: kids are older, I have quite a bit of time 324 00:17:04,280 --> 00:17:06,880 Speaker 2: when I'm shuttling, but quite a bit of time when 325 00:17:06,920 --> 00:17:08,639 Speaker 2: I have no kids in the car with me, because 326 00:17:08,680 --> 00:17:10,080 Speaker 2: like one of them will stay at home while I 327 00:17:10,160 --> 00:17:12,080 Speaker 2: drop the other one off and then I have the 328 00:17:12,119 --> 00:17:13,679 Speaker 2: whole drive back by myself. 329 00:17:14,520 --> 00:17:15,400 Speaker 1: And so I. 330 00:17:15,359 --> 00:17:17,400 Speaker 2: Think one of the things that I think I want 331 00:17:17,440 --> 00:17:21,080 Speaker 2: to do is get back to zero input in the car, 332 00:17:21,119 --> 00:17:24,520 Speaker 2: because that is a really great time of just allowing 333 00:17:24,560 --> 00:17:28,960 Speaker 2: God to speak. Speaking to God. This kind of goes 334 00:17:29,000 --> 00:17:34,560 Speaker 2: into another habit just be silent. I underestimate silence. So 335 00:17:34,800 --> 00:17:37,840 Speaker 2: I think it's two different things, though one is not 336 00:17:38,000 --> 00:17:41,239 Speaker 2: having constant input that's one positive thing that we can 337 00:17:41,280 --> 00:17:45,480 Speaker 2: do is making white space to have a conversation with God. 338 00:17:45,560 --> 00:17:48,480 Speaker 2: But I think another thing that I do is I 339 00:17:48,640 --> 00:17:54,560 Speaker 2: underestimate the value of complete silence without anything, and being 340 00:17:54,640 --> 00:18:00,600 Speaker 2: silent cultivates the ability to sit more comfortably in prayer 341 00:18:00,880 --> 00:18:05,200 Speaker 2: because God isn't going to just necessarily answer your question 342 00:18:05,280 --> 00:18:09,720 Speaker 2: immediately like chat GBT might or like Maggle might. He 343 00:18:10,160 --> 00:18:12,760 Speaker 2: might take a little bit of time. And sometimes we 344 00:18:12,880 --> 00:18:16,119 Speaker 2: even need to kind of untangle our thoughts in a 345 00:18:16,200 --> 00:18:19,200 Speaker 2: quiet space before we can even figure out what we 346 00:18:19,280 --> 00:18:22,639 Speaker 2: want to pray about, or before God can even begin 347 00:18:22,680 --> 00:18:25,160 Speaker 2: to enter into that time. So I'm going to make 348 00:18:25,200 --> 00:18:28,920 Speaker 2: that two different things. One constant input hurts your prayer life. 349 00:18:28,960 --> 00:18:33,400 Speaker 2: Two underestimating silence can your prayer life. 350 00:18:33,760 --> 00:18:36,479 Speaker 3: Yeah, and there's so many good things that happen in 351 00:18:36,520 --> 00:18:39,480 Speaker 3: your brain. I even heard of a study where they 352 00:18:39,600 --> 00:18:44,600 Speaker 3: compare New York public schools in New York City, and 353 00:18:44,960 --> 00:18:50,200 Speaker 3: the ones that had higher traffic noises consistently had worse 354 00:18:50,320 --> 00:18:54,040 Speaker 3: testing scores when you made everything else the same, and 355 00:18:54,240 --> 00:18:59,320 Speaker 3: even just that background noise, it taxes our mental energy. 356 00:18:59,880 --> 00:19:05,240 Speaker 3: And part of being a praying Christian woman is knowing 357 00:19:05,320 --> 00:19:10,160 Speaker 3: how important it is to preserve mental energy because we 358 00:19:10,280 --> 00:19:13,560 Speaker 3: know that prayer takes focus. 359 00:19:13,880 --> 00:19:17,040 Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that's a really good point, that whole 360 00:19:17,080 --> 00:19:20,320 Speaker 2: idea of preserving mental energy. 361 00:19:20,880 --> 00:19:23,080 Speaker 1: So what would the bad habit. 362 00:19:22,880 --> 00:19:29,679 Speaker 2: Be that leads to expending too much mental energy on 363 00:19:29,800 --> 00:19:30,960 Speaker 2: things that more important? 364 00:19:31,480 --> 00:19:34,840 Speaker 3: I know one of them can be for sure, like 365 00:19:35,400 --> 00:19:40,240 Speaker 3: having too many decisions. Decision fatigue can be such a big, huge, 366 00:19:40,280 --> 00:19:40,880 Speaker 3: real thing. 367 00:19:41,720 --> 00:19:43,119 Speaker 1: And it's this. 368 00:19:43,080 --> 00:19:46,919 Speaker 3: Idea of every time you make a choice about something 369 00:19:47,000 --> 00:19:50,879 Speaker 3: that is taking a fraction of your mental reserves for 370 00:19:50,960 --> 00:19:54,639 Speaker 3: the day. And so if there are things that you 371 00:19:54,720 --> 00:20:00,920 Speaker 3: can automate, that's why my wardrobe is always pants, t shirts, hoodie. 372 00:20:01,000 --> 00:20:03,760 Speaker 3: I don't have to think about it, you know, And 373 00:20:04,720 --> 00:20:07,600 Speaker 3: so times where you can eliminate that. Our families who 374 00:20:07,600 --> 00:20:10,840 Speaker 3: are like Tuesday nights always this for dinner. Wednesday night's 375 00:20:10,880 --> 00:20:13,760 Speaker 3: always that for dinner, one fewer thing that you have 376 00:20:13,800 --> 00:20:15,400 Speaker 3: to think about or I know for us, the way 377 00:20:15,440 --> 00:20:19,240 Speaker 3: we do that is having certain things that we always 378 00:20:19,280 --> 00:20:23,040 Speaker 3: want to have on hand, just on auto subscription, so 379 00:20:23,080 --> 00:20:25,800 Speaker 3: that we don't have to remind ourselves own next time 380 00:20:25,880 --> 00:20:27,840 Speaker 3: we're in town we need to pick us up. 381 00:20:28,520 --> 00:20:30,440 Speaker 1: Yeah, just being really really. 382 00:20:30,160 --> 00:20:35,359 Speaker 3: Protective of your mental energy and then paying attention in 383 00:20:35,400 --> 00:20:37,840 Speaker 3: your own self and in your own body to what 384 00:20:38,000 --> 00:20:41,000 Speaker 3: drains that, because it's going to be different for different people, right, 385 00:20:41,240 --> 00:20:46,280 Speaker 3: Like my husband actually really likes shopping for tech stuff. 386 00:20:46,680 --> 00:20:49,400 Speaker 3: So if I need a new computer, for me researching 387 00:20:49,480 --> 00:20:54,120 Speaker 3: what goes into purchasing a new computer, it's like decision 388 00:20:54,160 --> 00:20:58,199 Speaker 3: fatigue times a thousand. For him, it's a little bit 389 00:20:58,240 --> 00:20:59,520 Speaker 3: relaxing and a little. 390 00:20:59,320 --> 00:21:02,800 Speaker 2: Bit fun decompressing for him to be able to do 391 00:21:02,880 --> 00:21:05,640 Speaker 2: that kind of thing, just. 392 00:21:05,680 --> 00:21:08,480 Speaker 3: Like you know, for some women, maybe doing dishes is 393 00:21:08,560 --> 00:21:11,720 Speaker 3: really relaxing and peaceful and quiet, and for others it's 394 00:21:12,160 --> 00:21:14,120 Speaker 3: just the most hated store of the day. 395 00:21:14,720 --> 00:21:19,600 Speaker 2: M Well, I recently enrolled in some modules of training 396 00:21:19,920 --> 00:21:27,320 Speaker 2: that it's really interesting. Initially it was organizing and maintaining 397 00:21:27,320 --> 00:21:28,600 Speaker 2: your home was kind. 398 00:21:28,480 --> 00:21:29,360 Speaker 1: Of how it was presented. 399 00:21:29,400 --> 00:21:33,080 Speaker 2: But as I got into listening to the details of 400 00:21:33,119 --> 00:21:37,520 Speaker 2: it also a financial thing which I'm also trying to 401 00:21:37,600 --> 00:21:40,240 Speaker 2: kind of get a handle on, and so I thought, Okay, 402 00:21:40,280 --> 00:21:42,520 Speaker 2: I'll enroll in this, and it's very interesting because one 403 00:21:42,560 --> 00:21:47,560 Speaker 2: of the first modules is creating a storage room to 404 00:21:47,640 --> 00:21:51,800 Speaker 2: stock up on supplies for your home, and two automating 405 00:21:52,480 --> 00:21:54,080 Speaker 2: your everything. 406 00:21:53,800 --> 00:21:59,119 Speaker 1: Your meals you're ordering your shopping and so it's true. 407 00:21:59,200 --> 00:22:02,120 Speaker 2: And so I think, you know, the experts agree that 408 00:22:02,240 --> 00:22:05,560 Speaker 2: automation and in this day and age, it's so much easier. 409 00:22:05,600 --> 00:22:07,360 Speaker 1: I mean, we do online. 410 00:22:06,960 --> 00:22:11,720 Speaker 2: Banking already and auto pay and stuff, which I think 411 00:22:11,840 --> 00:22:15,680 Speaker 2: is invaluable. But anyway, that for our prayer lives, I'm 412 00:22:15,720 --> 00:22:20,280 Speaker 2: realizing that that whole thing is also going to probably 413 00:22:20,280 --> 00:22:22,280 Speaker 2: benefit my prayer life too, because. 414 00:22:22,280 --> 00:22:26,159 Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely more free mm yeah, anything you can do 415 00:22:26,200 --> 00:22:28,360 Speaker 3: that frees up mental space is going to be good 416 00:22:28,400 --> 00:22:31,600 Speaker 3: for your prayer life. That could even mean eliminating clutter 417 00:22:31,920 --> 00:22:35,480 Speaker 3: in your home, and it impacts some people more than others. 418 00:22:35,880 --> 00:22:39,399 Speaker 3: But again, studies show that when you are working or 419 00:22:39,480 --> 00:22:42,760 Speaker 3: living in a cluttered area, it takes a mental toll, 420 00:22:43,320 --> 00:22:46,280 Speaker 3: and it can take a toll on even just your 421 00:22:46,320 --> 00:22:48,919 Speaker 3: sense of happiness. And it's just coming from a woman who, like, 422 00:22:49,640 --> 00:22:51,520 Speaker 3: on a scale of one to ten, my house is 423 00:22:51,600 --> 00:22:54,520 Speaker 3: usually not much higher than a five in terms of 424 00:22:54,560 --> 00:22:57,119 Speaker 3: how tidy it looks, and sometimes it gets down to 425 00:22:57,240 --> 00:23:00,359 Speaker 3: a three, Like, we do not keep it as super 426 00:23:00,640 --> 00:23:03,480 Speaker 3: clean tidy home. So I don't want anyone to come 427 00:23:03,520 --> 00:23:06,000 Speaker 3: across like I'm saying, it all needs to be out 428 00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:10,439 Speaker 3: of ten, But maybe it's okay. This one thing, before 429 00:23:10,520 --> 00:23:12,760 Speaker 3: I pay my bills, I'm going to clean my desk, 430 00:23:13,440 --> 00:23:15,840 Speaker 3: or before I have my quiet time, I am going 431 00:23:15,880 --> 00:23:17,960 Speaker 3: to move this sturdy laundry out of the room so 432 00:23:18,000 --> 00:23:19,960 Speaker 3: I don't have to look at it. Sometimes it can 433 00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:24,040 Speaker 3: just be one small, simple thing that can have an impact. Yeah, 434 00:23:24,920 --> 00:23:27,960 Speaker 3: another bad habit that I think hurts a lot of 435 00:23:28,040 --> 00:23:30,440 Speaker 3: us in our prayer lives and in so many other 436 00:23:30,480 --> 00:23:34,160 Speaker 3: ways is not getting enough sleep, or not paying attention 437 00:23:34,240 --> 00:23:37,399 Speaker 3: to how much sleep you need, or just not having 438 00:23:37,440 --> 00:23:41,280 Speaker 3: good sleep hygiene. This could be an entire not just 439 00:23:41,440 --> 00:23:45,000 Speaker 3: episode but series on its own. But you know, just 440 00:23:45,000 --> 00:23:49,480 Speaker 3: some of the blanket stuff is if screens or caffeine 441 00:23:49,520 --> 00:23:53,000 Speaker 3: before bed are impacting your sleep, get rid of some 442 00:23:53,080 --> 00:23:56,359 Speaker 3: of that. If having a better bedtime ritual helps you 443 00:23:56,440 --> 00:24:00,680 Speaker 3: sleep better, do that. In my journey to try diet 444 00:24:00,760 --> 00:24:05,240 Speaker 3: and health things that help my inflammation, I have actually 445 00:24:05,240 --> 00:24:08,520 Speaker 3: found that sleeping with a diffuser helps me to have 446 00:24:08,560 --> 00:24:12,600 Speaker 3: a better day the next day. And so just finding 447 00:24:12,720 --> 00:24:16,000 Speaker 3: small things like that, because basically, if it's good for 448 00:24:16,040 --> 00:24:18,400 Speaker 3: your brain or if it's good for your health, it's going. 449 00:24:18,200 --> 00:24:19,600 Speaker 1: To be good for your prayer life. 450 00:24:20,160 --> 00:24:22,720 Speaker 2: Yeah, and we talk about that a lot. And I 451 00:24:22,800 --> 00:24:28,440 Speaker 2: love the awareness of sleep, nutrition, hydration, all of those 452 00:24:28,480 --> 00:24:31,240 Speaker 2: things are going to affect your prayer life. My kids 453 00:24:31,359 --> 00:24:36,480 Speaker 2: laugh at me because I tell them, like almost everything 454 00:24:36,480 --> 00:24:37,960 Speaker 2: that they struggle with, whether. 455 00:24:37,760 --> 00:24:41,160 Speaker 1: It's headaches or drink more water. But drink more water. 456 00:24:41,320 --> 00:24:43,000 Speaker 1: That's always drink more water. 457 00:24:43,080 --> 00:24:44,399 Speaker 2: You need to be And they're like, you say that 458 00:24:44,480 --> 00:24:47,639 Speaker 2: about everything, but they don't understand, Like, when I am 459 00:24:47,720 --> 00:24:52,399 Speaker 2: drinking more water, truly, my whole life is better in 460 00:24:52,520 --> 00:24:55,720 Speaker 2: so many ways. And it's such a simple thing to do. 461 00:24:56,320 --> 00:24:59,359 Speaker 2: So if you're having trouble sleeping, drink more water. 462 00:25:00,200 --> 00:25:00,480 Speaker 1: Really. 463 00:25:00,640 --> 00:25:03,840 Speaker 2: But screens before bed and blue blocker glasses, those are 464 00:25:03,880 --> 00:25:07,240 Speaker 2: another thing that could potentially revolutionize it. Have you ever 465 00:25:07,320 --> 00:25:08,639 Speaker 2: used blue blocker glasses. 466 00:25:09,240 --> 00:25:12,040 Speaker 3: I only wear them. I've done that for years, basically 467 00:25:12,080 --> 00:25:14,600 Speaker 3: since I started writing, because I was at the computer 468 00:25:14,680 --> 00:25:16,600 Speaker 3: so much that was getting really bad eye strain. 469 00:25:16,960 --> 00:25:18,600 Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's helped the eye strain. 470 00:25:19,520 --> 00:25:21,320 Speaker 1: Yeah. 471 00:25:21,400 --> 00:25:23,800 Speaker 2: I would say for me, one of my habits that 472 00:25:23,880 --> 00:25:26,120 Speaker 2: has been hurting my prayer life this year that I've 473 00:25:26,280 --> 00:25:33,080 Speaker 2: recently tried to remedy is neglecting scripture. And I just 474 00:25:33,160 --> 00:25:36,119 Speaker 2: came to a realization that I would be in my 475 00:25:36,200 --> 00:25:40,359 Speaker 2: prayer time and I would be going through my prayer 476 00:25:40,400 --> 00:25:43,400 Speaker 2: list and journaling. But it just occurred to me that 477 00:25:43,600 --> 00:25:46,399 Speaker 2: I just have been kind of coasting on my knowledge 478 00:25:46,440 --> 00:25:52,840 Speaker 2: of scripture, and it really scripture infuses my prayer life 479 00:25:52,840 --> 00:25:57,439 Speaker 2: with so much life and true. One thing that I 480 00:25:57,520 --> 00:26:01,360 Speaker 2: started doing was listening to the Bible in a Year podcast, 481 00:26:01,440 --> 00:26:04,600 Speaker 2: and I've just been pretty much every day trying to 482 00:26:04,720 --> 00:26:08,359 Speaker 2: kind of bring that in and it's been really cool 483 00:26:08,400 --> 00:26:11,240 Speaker 2: just to see how the scriptures a lot of times 484 00:26:11,320 --> 00:26:15,199 Speaker 2: really speak directly to what I'm going through. And so 485 00:26:15,480 --> 00:26:19,560 Speaker 2: I've really been wanting to incorporate scripture into my prayer 486 00:26:19,560 --> 00:26:24,800 Speaker 2: times more. And I find that actually reading the physical 487 00:26:24,880 --> 00:26:27,919 Speaker 2: paper Bible for me, I really do like that, like 488 00:26:27,960 --> 00:26:31,080 Speaker 2: and having my Bible nearby, And maybe for other people 489 00:26:31,080 --> 00:26:33,159 Speaker 2: they're just like, well, duh, aren't you supposed to be 490 00:26:33,160 --> 00:26:34,240 Speaker 2: doing that every day anyway? 491 00:26:34,440 --> 00:26:36,600 Speaker 1: But I haven't been. I really haven't been. I've been 492 00:26:36,680 --> 00:26:37,440 Speaker 1: kind of coasting. 493 00:26:38,080 --> 00:26:41,520 Speaker 2: And yeah, I love our Wednesday Psalms episodes because I 494 00:26:41,560 --> 00:26:44,439 Speaker 2: am in the psalms have you in there, and so 495 00:26:44,560 --> 00:27:06,320 Speaker 2: that's good, but for me, I also need something else too, So. 496 00:27:01,800 --> 00:27:04,000 Speaker 3: Well, why don't you make a note because I struggled 497 00:27:04,040 --> 00:27:06,560 Speaker 3: with that too, and for me, it has a lot 498 00:27:06,600 --> 00:27:11,320 Speaker 3: to do with just not having the right format because 499 00:27:12,160 --> 00:27:16,800 Speaker 3: physical reading is actually hard with my eyestrain. And so yeah, 500 00:27:16,840 --> 00:27:19,800 Speaker 3: maybe that could be another good upcoming episode that we 501 00:27:19,840 --> 00:27:24,040 Speaker 3: could talk about, just different ways to incorporate scripture as 502 00:27:24,080 --> 00:27:26,880 Speaker 3: a more habitual part of your life. And yeah, I mean, 503 00:27:27,119 --> 00:27:29,280 Speaker 3: is it embarrassing for us to be two women who 504 00:27:29,320 --> 00:27:32,960 Speaker 3: have podcasted about prayer for close to a decade to 505 00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:34,919 Speaker 3: be saying like, ooh, how can we get more Bible 506 00:27:34,920 --> 00:27:39,480 Speaker 3: reading in our day? Yes, but hey, we know that 507 00:27:39,640 --> 00:27:43,280 Speaker 3: a lot of people do struggle with this, including you 508 00:27:43,359 --> 00:27:45,720 Speaker 3: and me. So yeah, let's make a note to chat 509 00:27:45,800 --> 00:27:48,359 Speaker 3: about that soon because I could use some help and 510 00:27:48,840 --> 00:27:50,800 Speaker 3: creative ideas for that too. 511 00:27:51,080 --> 00:27:52,680 Speaker 1: Oh I love it, Yeah, let's do it. 512 00:27:53,320 --> 00:27:56,439 Speaker 3: So another one kind of related to sleep, but I 513 00:27:56,480 --> 00:27:59,160 Speaker 3: think it is a bad enough habit A warrants its 514 00:27:59,200 --> 00:28:03,560 Speaker 3: own category is checking your phone or scrolling on your 515 00:28:03,600 --> 00:28:07,160 Speaker 3: phone while you're in bed. I think that it just 516 00:28:07,200 --> 00:28:09,800 Speaker 3: sets your brain to start your day. 517 00:28:09,840 --> 00:28:10,800 Speaker 1: If the first thing you. 518 00:28:10,720 --> 00:28:14,560 Speaker 3: Do is you grab your phone and you're not even 519 00:28:14,600 --> 00:28:17,800 Speaker 3: out of bed and you're already scrolling or checking notifications. 520 00:28:18,280 --> 00:28:20,800 Speaker 1: It starts you. 521 00:28:20,200 --> 00:28:25,760 Speaker 3: Like needing that constant input, and at night, it just 522 00:28:25,840 --> 00:28:30,199 Speaker 3: doesn't give you the chance to winds down. And I 523 00:28:30,400 --> 00:28:34,280 Speaker 3: find being in bed is a beautiful time to spend 524 00:28:34,359 --> 00:28:39,240 Speaker 3: with the Lord, and so protect that time. And I 525 00:28:39,320 --> 00:28:43,520 Speaker 3: don't always love all or nothing rules. Sometimes I think 526 00:28:43,520 --> 00:28:46,680 Speaker 3: that they can be counterproductive in certain cases or for 527 00:28:46,760 --> 00:28:51,520 Speaker 3: certain personality types. But of everything we've talked about today, 528 00:28:51,560 --> 00:28:53,920 Speaker 3: a blanket rule of do not use your phone while 529 00:28:54,040 --> 00:28:56,960 Speaker 3: you are like, if part of your body is touching 530 00:28:56,960 --> 00:28:58,760 Speaker 3: your bed, do not have your phone in your hand, 531 00:28:58,840 --> 00:29:01,360 Speaker 3: I think that is an okay rule to try. 532 00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:06,239 Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, I think that's spot on, because it just 533 00:29:06,560 --> 00:29:07,560 Speaker 2: kind of sucks you in. 534 00:29:09,040 --> 00:29:10,280 Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. 535 00:29:10,440 --> 00:29:12,680 Speaker 3: Or sometimes maybe like a third of the time, I 536 00:29:12,800 --> 00:29:16,120 Speaker 3: like to listen to music or audiobooks while I'm falling asleep. 537 00:29:16,800 --> 00:29:19,280 Speaker 3: Sometimes even just the act of grabbing my phone to 538 00:29:19,520 --> 00:29:23,360 Speaker 3: turn something on gets me checking my email or gainst 539 00:29:23,480 --> 00:29:24,760 Speaker 3: me scrolling on something. 540 00:29:25,400 --> 00:29:26,240 Speaker 1: Yeah, agreed. 541 00:29:26,800 --> 00:29:30,280 Speaker 2: Well, another kind of non praying Christian womeny thing that 542 00:29:30,480 --> 00:29:33,920 Speaker 2: I feel like has been hurting my prayer life is 543 00:29:34,960 --> 00:29:38,040 Speaker 2: not scheduling time with God. And I know we talk 544 00:29:38,080 --> 00:29:41,040 Speaker 2: about all different ways, all different people, and the strengths 545 00:29:41,120 --> 00:29:44,320 Speaker 2: of all of us. My strengths are not in scheduling 546 00:29:44,320 --> 00:29:49,000 Speaker 2: and organizing necessarily, but I just have found that I 547 00:29:49,240 --> 00:29:55,520 Speaker 2: need to schedule time because otherwise there's I mean, there's 548 00:29:55,600 --> 00:30:00,080 Speaker 2: literally always something I could be doing, and whether or 549 00:30:00,120 --> 00:30:02,960 Speaker 2: it's house stuff, whether it's work stuff, whether it's podcast stuff, 550 00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:06,320 Speaker 2: whatever it is, there's always something. And I am the 551 00:30:06,400 --> 00:30:10,120 Speaker 2: kind of person that due to my undiagnosed but I 552 00:30:10,160 --> 00:30:13,960 Speaker 2: suspect I have ADHD, still have not gotten it confirmed. 553 00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:16,680 Speaker 2: But because of the way that my hummingbird brain works, 554 00:30:17,440 --> 00:30:20,800 Speaker 2: it's hard for me to get settled on something. Once 555 00:30:20,840 --> 00:30:24,200 Speaker 2: I'm settled in a mode of doing something, I am 556 00:30:24,280 --> 00:30:26,800 Speaker 2: just like a bulldozer and I just stay and go 557 00:30:26,880 --> 00:30:30,080 Speaker 2: and go, and if I don't set a time to 558 00:30:30,200 --> 00:30:35,560 Speaker 2: cut it off and make blank space, then I won't. 559 00:30:36,120 --> 00:30:39,840 Speaker 2: And so I just feel like some of that could 560 00:30:39,880 --> 00:30:43,640 Speaker 2: be saying for someone like me where scheduling is difficult, 561 00:30:43,760 --> 00:30:46,480 Speaker 2: I could say, every time I'm in the car alone, 562 00:30:46,560 --> 00:30:47,640 Speaker 2: that's my time with God. 563 00:30:47,680 --> 00:30:48,440 Speaker 1: And I can do that. 564 00:30:48,720 --> 00:30:52,040 Speaker 2: Now I cannot read my Bible like simultaneously while I'm 565 00:30:52,040 --> 00:30:55,400 Speaker 2: doing that, and I do really find that it recharges 566 00:30:55,480 --> 00:30:58,320 Speaker 2: me and it is really beneficial for me to be 567 00:30:58,960 --> 00:31:02,520 Speaker 2: sitting down and spending time with God. So I do 568 00:31:02,560 --> 00:31:04,960 Speaker 2: think that more than that, I do need a scheduled time. 569 00:31:05,120 --> 00:31:07,360 Speaker 2: So whether I haven't done it yet, but that's something 570 00:31:07,400 --> 00:31:10,000 Speaker 2: I want to work on, is even if it's five 571 00:31:10,120 --> 00:31:13,160 Speaker 2: or ten minutes, just saying I'm going to sit down, 572 00:31:13,320 --> 00:31:18,960 Speaker 2: I'm going to have undivided time and focus on spending 573 00:31:18,960 --> 00:31:22,200 Speaker 2: time with God, whether it's reading God's word, journaling whatever. 574 00:31:22,440 --> 00:31:24,920 Speaker 2: And I have a space that has become like a 575 00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:27,560 Speaker 2: trigger for me. I have in our bedroom. There's like 576 00:31:27,600 --> 00:31:30,920 Speaker 2: a little like window seat, not like just like a window, 577 00:31:30,960 --> 00:31:33,800 Speaker 2: e place with a bench and it has drawers to 578 00:31:33,840 --> 00:31:36,440 Speaker 2: put like linens and stuff in and you can sit 579 00:31:36,480 --> 00:31:40,320 Speaker 2: there and I just find it really a good, pleasant 580 00:31:40,720 --> 00:31:43,800 Speaker 2: meditative to sit there. So that's going to be my goal. 581 00:31:44,360 --> 00:31:46,480 Speaker 2: I don't love New Year's resolutions, but I would say 582 00:31:46,480 --> 00:31:51,280 Speaker 2: my goal for the next year is to regularly schedule 583 00:31:51,560 --> 00:31:55,160 Speaker 2: time sitting there reading the Bible. And that'll kind of 584 00:31:55,200 --> 00:31:57,880 Speaker 2: incorporate a lot of my different struggles into one thing. 585 00:31:58,480 --> 00:32:02,280 Speaker 3: Yeah, well that sounds perfect. Well anything else that you 586 00:32:02,360 --> 00:32:05,880 Speaker 3: when it's too pinpoint about habits to avoid. 587 00:32:06,360 --> 00:32:08,240 Speaker 2: No, But I just want us to end on like 588 00:32:08,280 --> 00:32:10,880 Speaker 2: what's something you think you do well. What's something that's 589 00:32:11,040 --> 00:32:12,560 Speaker 2: like rocking about your prayer life? 590 00:32:12,640 --> 00:32:13,040 Speaker 1: Right now? 591 00:32:13,560 --> 00:32:15,640 Speaker 3: I think that something that I have learned to do 592 00:32:15,720 --> 00:32:19,600 Speaker 3: well is to pay a lot of attention to what's 593 00:32:19,680 --> 00:32:23,080 Speaker 3: going on internally and in my body. 594 00:32:23,480 --> 00:32:26,400 Speaker 1: I've got a spreadsheet that I fill. 595 00:32:26,160 --> 00:32:29,160 Speaker 3: Out and it lists some of the foods, it lists 596 00:32:29,160 --> 00:32:31,840 Speaker 3: some of the activities, it lists some of the supplements, 597 00:32:32,040 --> 00:32:34,959 Speaker 3: and then every couple months I can go through and 598 00:32:35,000 --> 00:32:38,560 Speaker 3: analyze and see, Okay, when I do this one thing, 599 00:32:38,920 --> 00:32:43,680 Speaker 3: I know that I have a better next day, and 600 00:32:43,720 --> 00:32:46,520 Speaker 3: so I want to find more ways to do this 601 00:32:47,320 --> 00:32:51,600 Speaker 3: one thing. So yeah, learning to keep track of that 602 00:32:51,640 --> 00:32:55,720 Speaker 3: as opposed to I think forever ago, I probably would 603 00:32:55,720 --> 00:32:59,080 Speaker 3: have said to myself, that's so selfish to be so 604 00:32:59,280 --> 00:33:03,880 Speaker 3: focused on how you feel and whether your back is hurting. 605 00:33:04,120 --> 00:33:07,680 Speaker 3: You should be worshiping God and praising Him. So don't 606 00:33:07,720 --> 00:33:12,920 Speaker 3: make eliminating pain in your back the goal of what 607 00:33:13,000 --> 00:33:16,280 Speaker 3: you do. And I would say, true, eliminating pain in 608 00:33:16,280 --> 00:33:17,800 Speaker 3: my back is not the goal of what I do. 609 00:33:17,920 --> 00:33:21,640 Speaker 3: But since I know that I can operate so much 610 00:33:21,640 --> 00:33:24,960 Speaker 3: better and fulfill so much more of the call that 611 00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:27,520 Speaker 3: God has placed on my life. When my back doesn't hurt. 612 00:33:27,520 --> 00:33:30,880 Speaker 3: And since I have literal, tangible evidence that there are 613 00:33:30,880 --> 00:33:32,880 Speaker 3: things that I can choose to do or not do 614 00:33:33,560 --> 00:33:36,959 Speaker 3: that can improve my health, I'm going to do those things. 615 00:33:37,600 --> 00:33:38,240 Speaker 1: That's great. 616 00:33:38,640 --> 00:33:41,840 Speaker 2: I've been so impressed just over the last year or 617 00:33:41,920 --> 00:33:45,680 Speaker 2: so just seeing you do that pinpoint things that are 618 00:33:45,760 --> 00:33:50,040 Speaker 2: going to make things better, whether it's exercises for your 619 00:33:50,080 --> 00:33:54,040 Speaker 2: sore ankle, or whether it's you know, stretches, or whether 620 00:33:54,080 --> 00:33:57,320 Speaker 2: it's foods. Like you've done a really great job of 621 00:33:58,200 --> 00:34:01,280 Speaker 2: just improving the quality of your life and the way 622 00:34:01,320 --> 00:34:03,960 Speaker 2: you feel by tuning in hum. Yeah. 623 00:34:04,440 --> 00:34:07,800 Speaker 3: Yeah, So I would say the takeaway is, yeah, listen 624 00:34:07,920 --> 00:34:10,640 Speaker 3: to what your body is telling you. I told you 625 00:34:10,719 --> 00:34:13,960 Speaker 3: something that I read that was really profound, and it 626 00:34:14,040 --> 00:34:17,719 Speaker 3: was like to remember that your physical body is a 627 00:34:17,760 --> 00:34:22,520 Speaker 3: partner in ministry, and that stuck with me in such 628 00:34:22,560 --> 00:34:26,400 Speaker 3: a deep way because you don't treat your partner in 629 00:34:26,480 --> 00:34:31,720 Speaker 3: ministry like trash. You treat your partner ministry as something 630 00:34:31,760 --> 00:34:38,680 Speaker 3: that needs to be protected and nurtured and encouraged. And so, yeah, 631 00:34:38,680 --> 00:34:40,319 Speaker 3: that's kind of the journey I've been on. But what 632 00:34:40,360 --> 00:34:43,920 Speaker 3: about you in your prayer, Like, what's going well? 633 00:34:43,960 --> 00:34:47,560 Speaker 2: I feel like I've had a few kind of insights, 634 00:34:47,920 --> 00:34:51,080 Speaker 2: like just shifts in the way I view praying for 635 00:34:51,160 --> 00:34:55,840 Speaker 2: my family that have really added power to my spiritual 636 00:34:55,840 --> 00:34:57,960 Speaker 2: warfare for my family. So what I've done well is 637 00:34:58,000 --> 00:35:02,759 Speaker 2: like during the days, I've prayed through and in my 638 00:35:02,920 --> 00:35:06,960 Speaker 2: home more intentionally than maybe any other year. And I 639 00:35:06,960 --> 00:35:12,520 Speaker 2: would say the shifts involved like our whole Ephesians series. 640 00:35:12,600 --> 00:35:14,560 Speaker 2: I don't even know when that was that we did 641 00:35:14,560 --> 00:35:17,920 Speaker 2: the podcast well, I mean, I'm not the Ephesians study, 642 00:35:17,960 --> 00:35:20,000 Speaker 2: but like our armoros. 643 00:35:22,040 --> 00:35:24,040 Speaker 1: Last year or was it, I don't know. I don't 644 00:35:24,040 --> 00:35:24,400 Speaker 1: know when it. 645 00:35:24,719 --> 00:35:27,520 Speaker 2: It was within the last year ish since we've moved 646 00:35:27,520 --> 00:35:32,360 Speaker 2: to Utah, I know. And it was really just picturing 647 00:35:32,560 --> 00:35:38,800 Speaker 2: the spiritual battle and this idea of standing spiritual ground. 648 00:35:38,880 --> 00:35:41,520 Speaker 2: And it occurred to me several things that I read 649 00:35:41,640 --> 00:35:44,360 Speaker 2: outside of this and some of my research inside of 650 00:35:44,400 --> 00:35:49,240 Speaker 2: that whole series, that the battle's been won. And something 651 00:35:49,239 --> 00:35:54,240 Speaker 2: that helped me realize is praying to maintain the things 652 00:35:54,239 --> 00:35:57,319 Speaker 2: that are already ours. So basically, when I pray for 653 00:35:57,400 --> 00:35:59,919 Speaker 2: my family, I just pray, you know what, my kids, 654 00:36:00,200 --> 00:36:04,799 Speaker 2: my husband, they're already yours. They're yours. I am claiming them. 655 00:36:04,840 --> 00:36:08,400 Speaker 2: I am claiming that I am basically declaring that in 656 00:36:08,440 --> 00:36:12,319 Speaker 2: a legal sense, that they belong to you and the 657 00:36:12,480 --> 00:36:16,640 Speaker 2: enemy has no place interfering. And that is just like 658 00:36:16,719 --> 00:36:20,080 Speaker 2: even now, it just gives me such confidence and just 659 00:36:20,239 --> 00:36:23,120 Speaker 2: such power to pray in that way. So I feel 660 00:36:23,120 --> 00:36:26,400 Speaker 2: like I've been just wielding my figurative sword with my 661 00:36:26,520 --> 00:36:29,440 Speaker 2: family this year in a way that I had not previously. 662 00:36:29,560 --> 00:36:30,280 Speaker 1: That's beautiful. 663 00:36:30,920 --> 00:36:34,839 Speaker 3: Yeah. I see it as the equivalent of putting your 664 00:36:34,880 --> 00:36:38,400 Speaker 3: flag in enemy territory, yes, and claiming this is not 665 00:36:38,680 --> 00:36:43,040 Speaker 3: your place, this is my turf. You know, you can 666 00:36:43,120 --> 00:36:45,040 Speaker 3: be Kevin McAllister and home alone. 667 00:36:45,080 --> 00:36:50,720 Speaker 1: This is my house. I have to defend it, that's right. Absolutely. 668 00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:53,960 Speaker 1: Have you seen the ad? I can't remember what the 669 00:36:53,960 --> 00:36:57,000 Speaker 1: ad is? Oh, with the smart house, with the smart house. 670 00:36:57,200 --> 00:37:00,879 Speaker 2: Yeah, like if Kevin was home alone now and yes 671 00:37:01,160 --> 00:37:03,319 Speaker 2: era of smart homes, what that would look like. 672 00:37:03,680 --> 00:37:06,799 Speaker 1: It's kind of funny. Thing was pretty funny. Yeah. 673 00:37:06,840 --> 00:37:11,799 Speaker 3: Well, we went to wish everybody listening a beautiful New Year. 674 00:37:12,120 --> 00:37:15,480 Speaker 3: And if you are listening at a later date, whatever 675 00:37:15,800 --> 00:37:18,920 Speaker 3: time of year it is, in this arbitrary calendar that 676 00:37:19,120 --> 00:37:22,319 Speaker 3: has been created, we hope that you are finding good 677 00:37:22,400 --> 00:37:25,799 Speaker 3: inspiration for your prayer life. And I just want to 678 00:37:25,880 --> 00:37:28,560 Speaker 3: end with the reminder that even though we were talking 679 00:37:28,600 --> 00:37:32,600 Speaker 3: about bad habits to avoid, God loves you. God is 680 00:37:32,640 --> 00:37:35,680 Speaker 3: not ticked off at you for what you are or 681 00:37:35,719 --> 00:37:39,200 Speaker 3: aren't doing. He loves you. He is ready for you 682 00:37:39,400 --> 00:37:42,959 Speaker 3: to come and spend time with him, and he can't 683 00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:47,560 Speaker 3: wait to wrap you up in his arms and welcome 684 00:37:47,600 --> 00:37:50,000 Speaker 3: you home, or to just sit with you and have 685 00:37:50,040 --> 00:37:54,520 Speaker 3: a good heart to heart. So happy New Year, and 686 00:37:54,880 --> 00:38:01,160 Speaker 3: thank you all for joining us. 687 00:38:02,400 --> 00:38:04,800 Speaker 2: Do you love true crime but feel like it's a 688 00:38:04,840 --> 00:38:09,040 Speaker 2: guilty pleasure because of the swearing and explicit content. If so, 689 00:38:09,400 --> 00:38:12,240 Speaker 2: I can't wait to tell you the good news. 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