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Welcome back to the Weird Souls Are We Podcast! Ep 6
We’re going to talk about:
- How to talk to God
- Different types of Prayers
- Different ways to pray
- Why we need to talk to people
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In EP 7 we’ll talk about how to focus
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hey friends and fellow weirdos welcome back to weird souls are we the podcast where we talk about how to live like Jesus in a modern culture I’m Shannon Davis and this is episode five where we’re going to be talking about talking now if you’re just now joining us make sure you check out episode three so you can understand our concept of buckets but this time we’re going to be talking about the bucket of talking so how do I use my voice and my talking time with God and with others to be more like Jesus and another way we
talk about this in the church world is calling it prayer uh prayer is a common way that we talk to God uh but then we also just regular talk to other people okay so as far as talking goes we’re going to start off as always with our relationship with God because out of our relationship with God flows our relationship with other people and so talking to God in the church world is called prayer and if you’re weird like me and you might be weird in a different way but weird like me prayer has always been
um kind of a hard point for me it’s been a very long process for me to not feel guilty about the way I pray or guilty that I’m not praying enough or good enough or in the right way um all that very checklisty religion stuff that we let ourselves fall into but I have some amazing prayer people in my family that are really great and consistent and deep in their prayer life I have never been that way uh it’s something I am trying to grow in but it is not a natural connection for me with God at least like group prayer type
stuff I’ve definitely learned that journaling is as much part of a prayer life as saying it out loud and so through the years I’ve been working through uh coming to terms with how I talk to God and how I do a prayer life that yes it’s different than a lot of other people’s but there’s not really this right or wrong way to talk to God you know growing up it’s close your eyes bow your head fold your hands all that kind of stuff that is just to remove distractions that’s not because God
hears you better in that way and so it’s been a long process of giving up some of the guilt that there’s a quote right way to pray or there’s wrong ways to pray and understanding that there are many different ways to pray and we should stretch ourselves in trying different ways of praying but all of us have a natural bent to how we’re going to talk to God and it’s kind of like accents if you go up to Boston they’re going to sound different than the South they’re going to sound different than me and they’re going to
sound different than the Brits over in England and we’re all speaking English but it just sounds a little different and that’s kind of what prayer is like we’re all talking to God the important thing is that we’re developing a relationship by talking to him and sharing all the different pieces of life with him and focusing on him in relationship but there is no cookie cutter you have to do it this way or God’s not going to listen to you so let’s talk about why we need to build this part of our relationship with God
in this way and then talk about different ways that that might look and things that maybe you should try so why do we need to even pray doesn’t God know everything like that’s the common thing and yes but prayer is more for us than it necessarily is for God God knows everything God knows my heart he knows what I’m going to do tomorrow and the next day and the next day and he knows what’s going to happen in 3000 years God knows it all so no my prayer isn’t letting him know any new secrets
in my life however it is doing a couple different things one by setting aside time for prayer and talking to God I am setting aside time to refocus on him and I’m setting aside time saying God you are important to me so I’m going to set aside time for us to talk just like I would with my relationship with my husband I’m going to set aside time to talk with him I’m also going to set aside time to talk to God and anybody else that is important in my life if something is a priority we’re going to set aside time to
prioritize it so that’s one thing that prayer does for us is it just prioritizes our relationship with God by setting aside dedicated time for him now there’s a scripture in first Thessalonians that says pray without ceasing or another translation has never stop praying this mentality is a step above just setting aside dedicated time but it is making sure your relationship is prioritized enough that you’re constantly returning to it throughout the day I make it I make a similar comparison to text messaging so my
husband and I we don’t set aside one time to talk a day and that’s it like yep that we talked today and we’re good we don’t need to talk anymore today that’s not how it works that’s not how relationships work the more important a person becomes in your life the more you’re going to keep returning to that person throughout the day in both your thoughts and now that we have that access in our communication so I text my husband email him I call him on the phone for a quick like catch up if
there’s something big going on we’ll set aside time in the evening sometimes talk sometimes it’s chill and casual and fun sometimes it’s we have to make a list or make a schedule or talk about money or do serious conversations and then there are times where we set aside big pieces of date nights or little weekend getaways that it’s just us very dedicated on each other and so that is kind of how I like comparing how our relationship with God should develop the more important he becomes to us the more we should be
inviting him into every little minute of our day and that’s that whole prayer without ceasing kind of concept for me I started it High School young adult era kind of thing of I I verbally process a lot so I talk to myself is what uh most people think I’m doing but I don’t know if it was my own brilliant thought probably not I probably picked it up from somebody else at a conference or something but I Tran I’ve I have since transposed transformed my talking to myself habit into a talking with God
habit so if I am talking out loud seemingly to myself usually it is me just talking with God it’s not like a dear God holy prayer kind of thing it’s just a general like okay God I need to get this done or okay what should I do here or just like little quick like text message text message G type check in conversations just talking about what’s going on my day little random things that don’t really matter but because I have a relationship with God I’m I’m inviting them into the little things
that don’t even matter because it’s an important thing and as we continually prioritize God and re-center and refocus on him by talking to him letting him know what’s going on in our day asking them into those things that develops relationship and trust and by praying to him talking to him and having those continual conversations and things like that not only are we focusing on him and prioritizing him but then it is easier it is easier for us to notice when he does act in our life and respond to the
things that we are talking and praying and focusing on so while some people might be like oh well that was just a coincidence or that just randomly happened or things of that nature people that are consistently focused on God and asking him into our life it is easier for us to see that oh he did respond to that prayer or it didn’t even matter but he gave me this thing that lets me know that he truly cares about me or things of that nature the more we focus on God the more we’re able to see when God acts
and by continually doing that that builds trust and helps us know that because he has acted in the past in big and little things I know because God is unchanging he will act in future big and little things in my life as well and then it also helps us realign like I said it helps us focus on God so the more that we invite him in we talk with him we prioritize him we look for him in the responses we look for him in the responses it helps us to align with God and refocus so if I am inviting him continually into my life I’m also
realigning my life to look more like him if I know that God is constantly with me and I’m reminding myself of that I am less likely to do things that do not align with God or I’m more likely to ask God for wisdom in the things that I don’t know or I might mess up and make a wrong choice I am more likely to continually be following God if I’m continually asking and looking for him to work in my life by talking to him about all the big and little things so Psalms 37 3-4 says trust in the Lord and do good then you
will live safely in the land and prosper take Delight in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart and growing up I always thought that meant that if I pray to God he’s going to give me all the things I want and now I realize that is not what that scripture is saying it is saying if I talk to God and focus on him my heart is going to realign to his heart my focus is going to be focused on what he wants me to do and be and how he wants the world to be I’m going to realign my heart to be that so the desires of my
heart will be in line with God and by talking to him and building trust and consistency in that space it it becomes more and more that my heart aligns with his and I see the world through his eyes and the desires of my heart become the desires of God’s heart so what are the different ways that we should be talking to God and all of that kind of stuff you should have your normal everyday chats with God quiet time just like talking about regular stuff there’s the prey without ceasing peace where it’s I’m just continually
refocusing myself into asking God into the little things of my life but then this is this is the part of prayer talking that I am trying to push myself in so I’ll probably at some point be talking more about talking um just because this is something that I do want to grow in so we’ll learn together but there are a lot of different types of prayers that can push you past talking about yourself and your own life because that’s easy it is easy to talk about the things we care about it’s easy to talk about ourselves it’s
easy to talk about the everyday things but as Christians we need to have a bigger picture view of the world uh there are things that if we don’t push ourselves we won’t necessarily know we need to invite God into that thing or that we need to direct our attention to a particular thing or we might not even realize that God is calling us to action because we weren’t focused on a particular area so I did some research on I knew a couple different types of prayers confession adoration confession are three very common words in there but
we’re going to talk through a list of different types of prayer and I’ll probably make a little download that you can have and maybe stick in your Bible just as a okay what’s something that I can try new to focus on in this moment to push me in a different way to trust God more and focus on him in a new area of Life supplication supplication is a fancy word for asking for things this is probably one of the easiest and most natural ways to start talking to God In Prayer is just asking him to do things
in your life asking him four things in your life just asking for things most natural beginner type of prayer there is nothing wrong with it it is good for us to ask for big and little things because God is a good father and he wants to give us good things and so asking him for those things is one type of prayers of worship these are prayers where we are just saying God you’re amazing and I love you for it so in Psalms there are several different Psalms that can be this type of prayer uh so if you’re not
really sure how to start Beyond being like you’re awesome God but you knew that like if that feels like how you’re doing a prayer of worship going through some of the Psalms and uh just reading through those in a this is what I am saying you saying to you God kind of way not this is what somebody wrote about you kind of way or putting on some worship songs that are really great like worship adoration kind of songs uh adoration is the churchy word for this but in the the printable in the link description notes kind of
stuff or you can go to the website and sign up for the newsletter it’ll be in those freebies that you get as signing up uh we’ll put different types of scriptures and songs that might help you start if you’re like I need to just do some worship and thank God for being awesome Thanksgiving is another one that kind of partners with the Adoration aspect a little bit but it’s more on thanking God for all the things so it’s not just saying God you’re awesome which is adoration worship uh it’s also saying
thank you God for all the things you’ve done and it’s acknowledging and saying thank you God for doing this thing in my life thank you God for doing this thing in my life thank you God for Jesus thank you God for like just going through and saying thank you for all the things that are going on in your life that is one type of prayer that you can do this is one that I actually am going to schedule a time to sit down with a friend on how do you do this kind of process because it’s not something that
we’re good at at all we don’t want to do the hard stuff so it’s called a lament prayer uh this would be like again Psalms has a lot of different types of these uh emotional response kind of prayers we feel like with lament we shouldn’t tell God that we’re sad and angry but as we see in Psalms it is healthy for us to tell God we are sad and angry because then we’re inviting him into our pain and saying I am sad and angry even if it’s at God but I still want you to be a part of this I still want to be in a
relationship with you but it is hard right now and when we say the things we’re struggling with that is half the battle in any relationship telling your feelings and emotions is part of the process of working through those emotions and strengthening the relationship rather than keeping them from the person that you are having those difficult emotions with and it weakens the relationship but a prayer of lament is just that whole like I don’t understand God I’m mad God I’m angry I’m upset I’m hurt I’m sad it’s it’s those
those darker feelings it’s the the not happy feelings that we have it but it’s us taking those to God and saying these are my feelings that I am having and I’m having them at you or I’m having them these people or I don’t know what to do with them or I don’t even have words for the feelings that I’m having but I am taking them to you God and working through that with him another one of the not so fun prayer Styles is confession and uh the Catholic church is really good at confessing sins like that’s part
of their tradition uh non-denominational church I I don’t think we’re that good at the confession piece there’s probably whatever denomination whatever flavor of Faith you’re a part of uh maybe you’re good maybe you’re not maybe your little pocket of faith family is good at this piece but um confessing to God our sins um confessing that hey I know I messed up in this way and I’m sorry that I hurt you when I messed up confessing to God and then also confessing to the people we hurt it’s part of like a a style
12-step program things that at some point you have to go back and confess to people like I know that what I did hurt you I know that my actions hurt you um so they have confession as a part of their 12-step as us in our everydays when we we think we don’t have big huge issues I think it’s harder for us in everyday life um if we aren’t working through a program to overcome what we would identify as like a big issue I think confession is harder for us to be like yeah that small little thing I did hurt
somebody but I think those small things are the splinters of life it’s easy to look at stuff and be like that is a big deal and you need to say sorry for it um but the little splinters are the things it’s the death by a thousand paper cuts kind of thing if we don’t deal with the little hurts that we give people um we just continually keep hurting them and then those things fester and eventually it breaks the relationship and so confession prayers with God where we acknowledge the ways we’ve hurt God
and we acknowledge how we’ve hurt others but also make sure if you do those confessions of how we’ve hurt others that we also go and say to them that we’re sorry because that is a part of a confession prayer uh God tells us to leave our offering at the altar and go and make amends with our brother before we go to him so really part of a confession prayer is saying sorry to the individuals we hurt first and then going to God and saying I am also sorry I did it because I know that hurt you in addition to this person
so confession prayers intercession prayers are where we’re praying for other people I feel like I need somebody that is good at this in my life so that they can show me better how to do it other than me like pray for this person God because it doesn’t feel substantial I know that’s good enough for God to acknowledge what I am trying to get at in my heart but I want to be able to do better and deeper prayers one of the styles of intercession prayer is called bless that is what it is and it’s an
acronym I don’t remember all the pieces I’ll do a separate video on bless uh when I have the acronym sitting in front of me but it goes through basically it lists out like all the aspects of a person in their life and gives you an outline of how to go through and pray a blessing over that person intercede for them basically um I think the first one’s body is what b stands for and then it leads you through like their work Life Family Life emotional life Financial life like all these different things and praying for them so
I’ll do a separate video and we’ll link it at some point but uh intercessory prayer is praying specifically for somebody else and maybe they have something going on that you’re specifically going to pray for that thing about them but you can also just pray a blessing over somebody and ask God to bless their life in different ways uh one that I haven’t commonly heard but I thought it was worth mentioning is a vowel prayer so vowel prayer is another type that I don’t hear a lot about uh I think there are
different ways this can look and it’s probably a deeper conversation that we will have but basically they compared it the place I found this one is they compared it to Hannah promising God that she would dedicate her uh her first her firstborn to him if he gave him a child and God did and she did and so that was kind of the vowel prayer we see so many different types of vowel prayers happening or people making vowel prayers and they break them um the Nazarene vowel was a part of the Jewish culture and Samson had that vowel
and totally demolished and broke it and we see how Samson’s story kind of uh winds up but vow prayers are a deeper conversation but basically it’s this concept of saying God I am going to do this if and when you decide to do a certain thing in my life or I’m going to do this as a way to deepen our relationship and this is how I’m going to do it this is how long I’m going to do it or things of that nature so that’s what a vowel prayer is it’s kind of you talking to God about an agreement for something you will do or
where you’re going to live your life but it’s a huge conversation to have around what that actually is looks like and how we should act on it when we do vowels to God okay another type of prayer is silence uh silence is the act of not talking which seems weird to put in a conversation about talking to God but prayers of Silence I think are beneficial because otherwise we just talk talk talk talk talk talk and God never gets the chance to respond to all of our talkings so I think it’s good to add in silence
something that has become more a part of our staff culture at church is when we pray we kind of just take a deep breath uh it’s that whole concept of the breath of life that God breathed into Adam uh we see breath being an important kind of piece it’s that whole concept that breath gives us life and so starting with just filling up with that life that God has given us there’s also scientifically when you fill up uh your lungs deeply uh with air when you take a really deep breath um it creates a calming effect so it
gives you peace to breathe in deeply and so starting off with just a quiet moment just deep breathing lets you settle yourself and and is a part of calming your body so that you can focus on God so silence maybe before and after uh when you’re actually talking to God to just focus on him can be a good part and start to prayer time okay another prayer is a Deliverance Prayer so praying for God to bring you out of evil bring you out of trouble things of that nature so it might be that you are struggling with
um health issues or you’re just struggling with uh brain fog or indecisions or things are chaotic in your everyday life praying for God to deliver you from those moments is another prayer that you can have um Deliverance prayers sometimes they are quick and sometimes they’re years and I’ve had Deliverance prayers that I pray with tears for years at a time before I see the answer to that I’ve had prayers that I ask for God to take me out of trouble and difficulties and they are not for years they’re shorter I don’t
know that I would say I for sure had a Deliverance Prayer that it was like an immediate response but I have had Deliverance prayers that are quicker than others so these are the prayers that it’s like it feels like it takes God forever to respond because we’re in trouble and we want the trouble to be over but I also know looking back that the reason God did not answer it in the first 24 hours is because I needed to go through those difficult times to be who I am now to be better to understand difficult
times better to trust him to know that in that that difficult time because God responded he will respond in future difficult times because they always come and difficulties will always happen and if I didn’t go through some I might not have made it through others so Deliverance prayers not only um asking God to act but also Deliverance prayers help us acknowledge and remind ourselves that God is working and he is in the midst of those troubles and those difficulties and even though we don’t know how he
will respond we know he is going to respond and so praying Deliverance prayers is acknowledging the difficulty that you’re going through but also acknowledging that you know God is with you and you know God is working for you and that you trust him through those almost as your own internal like pep talk that okay I can get through this because I know God is going through this with me and so those are kind of what Deliverance prayers look like and then finally transformation prayers these are kind of your Romans 12
uh prayers where you are praying for God to specifically uh renew your mind transform you from old way of thinking to new way of thinking transform your habits and your actions and just keep making you into more like Jesus so it’s asking God to say this to point out the things in your life that are not of him that he wants you to give up that are not best maybe they’re good but they’re not best asking God to point out those things that maybe you’re blind to that you know that you need to transform
those or give them up so that you can have the better jesus-centered life that you want and so transformative prayers where you are openly being like okay point out the things in my life that need transformed that need changed so that I can be more like you so those are the types of prayers how do we pray them so a couple different ways that we can uh pray these types of prayers one is going to scripture Psalms is a great starting point Psalms probably has all of these at some point did Within its Pages um David wrote expansively all the
emotions all the things so if you are not sure how to start go to Psalms and start reading through those scriptures through your point of view so it might be making sure you’re saying I and and using first person language it might be taking the concepts of those prayers and just applying it to your personal situation but scripture is a good first place to start when it comes to those types of prayers lists is something that is good for me that’s kind of a go-to method for me is that uh so I don’t
forget what I want to pray about on a regular basis I make lists of people places things that are that I care about that I consistently want to pray about and then I try and keep a prayer list going when I hear about other things and people that I want to make sure I acknowledge in my time with God I’m not as good about a rotating prayer list but I try and keep a regular prayer list worship songs like I’ve mentioned before are another great way if you’re just not sure what to do or what to say a worship
song puts a prayer into personal perspective if you don’t feel like singing you can print off the words or find the words um the lyrics to a song and just read those as a prayer uh there are different acronyms out there Joy is a common one which means Jesus others yourself so you pray first um adoration Thanksgiving those kinds of prayers then you pray for others and you pray for yourself uh bless like I mentioned before is another one but ax is another common one which is adoration confession Thanksgiving supplication uh
if you Google prayer acronyms I’m sure there’s a bajillion other ones out there I can’t remember any other I remember some of the acronyms but I don’t remember what they’ll stand for so repetitive prayers are another one where you think where you uh go with a word or a phrase and you just keep asking God so like peace would be something that you could ask for if you’re feeling very un balanced in the moment um or you could ask for Grace or Mercy or just pick a word that it’s like I
need this in my life so I’m just going to say this repetitiously um and and focus on God as I say this as a way to say I’m asking for this in my life which means that it’s a very easy starting point if you’re like I don’t know what to say I don’t know what to do like pick one word and say this is what I’m asking for in my life and just say that over and create that space with God to focus on that thing something some people do not so much me I’ve thought about it I don’t think it’s really My
Vibe because consistency is not a strong point of mine um in a lot of ways at least when it comes to how I pray but some people like doing War rooms where they have like a closet they’ve transformed or a little space or room that they’ve transformed into like Post-It note City and like all the prayers and like very focused intentional praying maybe one day I will feel accomplished enough in my prayer life that this feels like some the next step for me I’m not there right now but I do have a journal I keep it on my
tablet actually it’s an electronic journal so I always have that with me if I’m like hey I have time and I feel like I need to pray uh I have set my little red chair aside and that is where I usually do my morning quiet time where I can just pray and talk to God and it gives me an atmosphere that I I immediately feel like okay this is what I do here and so I think that’s the most important thing that’s why I think a lot of people like prayer are like the concept of a war room but just finding like what is that space
that it’s like okay I immediately feel myself centered and anchored in what I need to do which is pray and spend time with God so whether whether it’s a chair whether it’s sitting outside under a specific tree um on your front porch in a closet you know whatever that place is that it’s like I feel like there are no distractions in this spot and I can focus on what I’m saying to God and what he’s saying to me that that’s what you need to find uh so now that we’ve kind of gone through all
the talking with God we’re going to talk about talking with other people uh first of all Christians and then people who are not Christians uh so talking with other Christians I think there are three types of conversations that we need to be intentional about obviously we’re going to chit chat after church in the hallways and in the public spaces of the building or we’ll have small group and we’ll chit chat over food and stuff like that um just the general getting to know people kind of Chit Chat is always good
and the general chit chat with other people is good practice for General chit chat with non-christians because people are people chit chatting and getting to know people it doesn’t matter who they are or what their Walk of Life is or what their faith background is practicing talking to people and getting to know them better is always a good habit to be practicing and so doing it with other Christians is a safe space because there’s just commonality there so it’s easier but that’s good practice so that
it doesn’t feel awkward when you’re with non-christians because the longer your Christian the more you forget how to just be around non-christians after you get past the Chit Chat being intentional with your time with other Christians because these are the people the Christians that you’re around are the people that are going to help you grow and uh become more of the person that God wants you to be so uh we call it we use this at our we use this on our staff we call it E3 uh it’s encouraging
equipping empowering so one type of conversation talking that you should be doing with other Christians is encouragement so encouraging other people looking for ways to affirm who they are and what they are doing um and encouraging them in that this is not my strong point I am not a words of affirmation kind of person my husband is that is why God probably gave him that’s one of the many reasons God gave me my husband is because he needs me to be better at one of my weak points which is encouragement so I
am getting better I’m not great I’m not nearly as good as it at it as he would like me to be but I’m growing in this way you should also grow in encouraging others in meaningful ways too not just like oh cute top but I see this in you or I see how you’ve changed or grown or I know you are doing your I know you are struggling here but I see how God is moving or things of that like affirming and acknowledging that they are becoming more like Jesus that kind of encouragement so quipping is the next type of
conversation we should be intentionally having and equipping is is the training kind of conversation so um hey I know you said you were struggling in this kind of area let’s talk about ways that I’ve grown in this way or let’s talk about what are things that you feel like maybe you are doing or need to improve on or things you would like maybe some accountability for and having those people in your life that are allowed to say hey you said you wanted to do this like that’s not what you’re doing right
now like let’s come up with a plan let’s be better let how are you going to improve this how are you going to actually accomplish this this week uh versus not accomplishing it like you did last week but it’s it’s mutual accountability it’s not hey you’re doing it wrong it’s hey we said you said you wanted to do this this is what we came up with it didn’t happen this week okay how do we make sure it happened what do you need for me to make it happen and and talking through that for being
better versus shaming them for not being good enough so equipping conversations and then empowering conversations so how are you helping so what kind of conversations can you have with people to help them be even better than where you’re at necessarily or empowering them to go and do the things with other people that you are doing so it’s kind of discipling conversations so um if you are helping somebody be better in one area now it’s helping that person understand how did they go and have those conversations with other
people so maybe you’ve helped somebody understand how to share their testimony um which is great you’ve had a great encouraging conversation you’ve equipped them well so now you need to send them and tell them okay I’ve taught you how to do this how do you who’s somebody you can help do this with how do you want to teach somebody to do this aspect of life of teaching and talking to other people as well and so empowering it is the conversations of I’ve done this with you now who are you going to do this with
who are you leading in Christ who are you being intentional with in your time and having those empowering conversations and then finally we also need to talk to non-christians and the longer you are a Christian and in the church the more difficult this seems to become one is because we continually surround ourselves and we send our lives to be around church and other Christians and we start and we stop having as many non-Christian friends I’ve always been a Christian I’ve always followed Jesus but once I was out of school
um once I graduated high school I no longer had a consistent environment that I was always around people who did not believe the same things that I believed and it wasn’t until it probably wasn’t until my third church that I realized how much I was telling people you need to go do these things and I had nobody in my life that I could do with because I was around Christians all the time I worked at a church all my friends were Christians um I like I was single so I worked a ton I would definitely work too much uh but
and then at that time I was in a small community so there weren’t a lot of things that interested me and it was hard for me to find other people and so uh and so I realized like I need to figure out how do I spend time around other Christians and have intentional conversations with them to build relationship not to necessarily evangelize them although when you have a god-centered worldview everything can become a conversation around God and Jesus uh but just how do I talk to non-christians like I I hadn’t done it for so long I hadn’t
talked to people I hadn’t consistently talked to people outside of the church world for so long that it was intimidating to me to go find people that didn’t believe in Jesus and talk to them like I forgot what it was like to have normal conversations with just everyday people uh so when I moved I got involved in some groups that were not Church related at all I still love those people dearly even though life has changed and I just don’t have the schedule and time to be in those groups anymore but
it was good for me because I relearned how to just talk to people in normal ways not every conversation has to be about Jesus that’s how it is in my work life and my faith life we talk about Jesus a lot and freely but being in non-Christian environments showed me how to just be normal in the way I talked how to just talk about things how to find common interests with people and to get over that fear fear of everybody’s gonna hate me or they’re not going to be my friend because I’m a Christian because that’s
what media tells us that’s what all the Hollywood and stuff tell us and I think I fell into the Trap of believing that a little bit so making sure you have conversations with not Christian people to just continually keep practicing normal everyday common conversations but the magic of that not magic the Holy Spirit of that is that having those normal conversations and just being normal with your faith not a I’m a Christian let me tell you about Jesus kind of way but yeah I just live my life Like Jesus Does and so that’s just how I
live my life and that’s just normal for me uh will open up doors for people to ask you questions about why you live your life that way and how you’re living that your life that way and why that makes sense for you and all those questions they’ll just naturally do that you don’t you do not have to start Faith conversations a lot of the time if you’re just having everyday conversations and building trust and relationship with people they’re going to get to the point where they want to start asking you about that because they
trust you and you’ve shown that who you are is who you are and you’re not going to be hostile with your conversations you’re going to be gracious with your conversations and so the more that you live a life like Jesus and the more you talk about Jesus and talk with Jesus the easier it is for you to talk to others about Jesus but don’t necessarily have that Faith background and the more you talk and listen to God the easier those conversations become so I know that was a lot and there’s a lot more we’re going to unpack in future
conversations but this was the very long podcast about our talking bucket I hope it helped you figure out some areas that maybe you need to explore to be better about talking about your faith or talking with God or talking with other Christians how you can be more intentional and growing opportunities I’d love to hear what you think your next step is going to be in the comments but for now this was episode six our talking conversation I’ll see you next time weirdos foreign
