I am so encouraged by the emails and messages I have received from our first week of this study. I have been praying for each participant this week, that God will bless your desire to grow closer to Him through prayer.
Today begins the Lenten season. Although the church I attend doesn’t celebrate Lent, I do in my personal walk with Christ and have for the last several years. It is a sacred time of growing closer to Him and asking Him what He thinks has become an idol in my life that I then deny myself of for the traditional 40 days. One year it was pride, another negative attitudes. I will share in a later post what I am surrendering to Him this season.
Here is the video for session two:
We identified two barriers to an effective prayer life during our study today. If you would like a .pdf printable for deeper study on these two topics, please leave a comment with your email and I will get it to you today.
If you missed last week’s session, you will want to see it first. Here is the link.
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