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Regular times of prayer can be thought of like greenhouses containing the soil of our heart, where amongst in the wild winds of life that may blow around us in other parts of our day, these are protected spaces in which our heart is learning to constantly lean towards Jesus like a sunflower turns to follow the sun. But what could spaces of prayer, or 'daily greenhouses' look like if you're working a corporate job and flying half of the year, or perhaps a mother nursing a newborn? What could these daily green houses look like if you are working shift work or the primary carer of an elderly relative? Life isn't always simple and it's not always possible to carve out hours of your day to sit in solitude with the Lord, but is is possible in all cases to live a prayerful life.
This episode discusses what some of these greenhouse could look like in our everyday lives.

As we pray without ceasing, as our lives become a prayer, we spend time in the presence of God, abiding in Him, listening to Him, enquiring of Him, speaking to Him and as we become more consistently in communication and communion with Jesus a funny thing happens … we start to become bit by bit more like Him! 
We start to be transformed into His likeness.
For me, surrendering my life as a prayer has been one of the most transformative places and powerful places, join us in Episode 5 to hear more!

As a life of prayer is born from passionate love for Jesus the posture of our heart to receive, cultivate and grow this love is key.
Often we have been taught a daily morning prayer time is the goal … spoiler alert! It's not - relationship with Jesus is the goal!
Daily times of prayer are helpful and important and can act as greenhouses, places that are protected spaces for our heart to learn to receive the love of Jesus and for us to train our minds, souls and spirit to live in a place of constant communion with God .
So how do we cultivate a posture of our heart that would see a passionate burning love for Jesus to grow and be inconstant communication with Him? So glad you asked! Listen in for Episode 4!

All we do in the Kingdom of God is to come from love not a works paradigm.
We are the Mary before we are the Martha.
Not just for serving in church, but even in prayer!

Often we are more hungry for God than we realise we just don’t realise how hungry we are because we are satisfying ourselves on temporary things – the sugar fixes of life, the lesser loves, that may satisfy us for a moment but don't ultimately satisfy the hunger of our souls. Only Jesus can do that.

1 Thess 5:16-17 TPT Let joy be your continual feast, make your life a prayer. And in the midst of everything be always giving thanks, for this is God’s perfect plan for you in Christ Jesus.

So how do we pray this without ceasing? How do we make our life a prayer?
What did Paul even mean by that? Dig a little deeper with us around the context of the book of Thessalonians and be encouraged!
Our activation at the end of the podcast invites the Holy Spirit in to free us from any lies we may be believing around prayer and our prayer lives that have been stopping us for going deeper with God.

For most followers of Jesus it's not new news that we are called to pray. Jesus modelled this in His own life and taught His disciples on prayer.
And yet it’s often one of the things that as followers of Jesus we feel like we could go deeper in, be more diligent in, experience more of God in…
How could we pray without ceasing and how could this play a part in our Spiritual Transformation into Christlikeness? 
Join us for Episode 1 as we start to explore these topics!