i've found that journaling my prayers is the best way for me. i tend to struggle with getting distracted so when i would just pray in my head or pray out loud to myself, my thoughts would wander and I'd no longer be praying. I journal my prayers for the same reason I journal when I'm listening to a sermon; if i don't, i struggle to focus. the beauty of journaling my prayers is that I also get to look back on past prayers and say "oh look how God answered that prayer."

On prayer: "If you love someone you will find time"- Preston Perry

“Praying for people is a way to cultivate love for people”

“The answers are found at God’s feet, not your doing” goodness🔥

When Jackie said one of the enemies of prayer is that we don't know how to be still, I felt that in my soul cause that's exactly what I'm struggling. God bless you both fr, tell are a blessing to me

Jackie is the most serious funniest goofiest smartest combination of a human being and I love it !! All glory to God for our sister 🙌🏽😂💛

You guys are so wise! 🙌 I'm 50 and I've been walking with God for 28 years and I don't remember being this wise in my 30's. 😀 May God continue to bless your family with prosperity, provision, protection and wisdom in His Name! 🙏😍

The intros, theeeeseee introsss are everything!!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

When Jackie said “I just wanna go to sleep, it’s 5am” 😂😂😂so relatable

"Writer's block is a thing, but sometimes it is the Lord humbling you..." Amen!

Good morning, I want to share something that I learned today in my prayer time the Holy Spirit. He said make sure you are pr(a)ying and not pr(e)ying. Praying always will get our hearts to become one with Christ. A religious spirit is always preying is to satisfy flesh to say "I prayed about it" but there is no real exchange. Sometimes we prey out of fear or anxiety. And our heart is cold and hard as stone. We even sometimes have an attitude when we approach His throne of Grace. But we should not leave His presence that way. The preying doesn't bring clarity, peace or truth. In preying, it is very grieving to the Holy spirit. He showed me that praying for others or ourselves is about going to God to get his heart on the matter. It is for us to die to ourselves and thus allowing Christ to live. But preying is fruitless you end up leaving your prayer time more frustrated and you don't allow Christ's heart purposes to connect to your heart. This is preying, it causes your heart to be dead to the will of God. The goal in prayer should always be to find God's heart, this will always produces life!! Amen be blessed in Christ Jesus.. Abba up!✨🎚 I Thank God for sharing this!! Repentance of legalism and a religious spirit!! And trusting God to keep my prayers authentic and submit to His way. Hallelujah!!

When Jackie says part of the problem is that we don't know how to sit still, and we know how to l keep ourselves entertained... Like how I'm watching this episode during my prayer time. I know it's time for me to pray, but I rather watch a podcast on prayer... Stillness is really a problem we have

This spoke to my soul😭🙏🏾. Jackie: "When you pray good for people that have done you wrong, it forces your heart to move in a different way"🔥 Love and blessings to the Perry's ❤️

Nigerians REALLLY pray like that a lot 😅 it’s the culture we’re raised in. And then God opens our eyes to see more and have a deeper understanding

These podcasts episode needs to be longer. 1-hour with The Perry’s please! 👏🏿🙌🏿

I thought I needed the prayer closet too lol and it was so awkward and I felt like I was a different person when I did that. But when I would write in my journal, letters to God, it felt so natural and I could go back and read and remember things in our relationship and the things he's done for me

When you said that's how Muslims pray I just broke down because I was raised Muslim, and I brought over so much of that baggage to my walk with Christ. And a part of me knows that He already knows and loves me, but I also struggle so much with getting wrapped up in the salvation through works and being legalistic

It is so important to find the time. It has been helpful to me to start my morning with devotion and prayer. I am usually up around 5:30 am, and as much as I love that snooze button, waking up and starting the day with the Lord really starts my day well. Even if the day ends up hectic, staying connected with God helps me through. He is so faithful. Prayer is such a gift.

'I feel like Nigerians pray like that'😂😂😂 No Jackie, a good percent of Africans pray like that🙌🏽 I am so blessed by this episode. Be blessed y'all

I'm currently in a season where God is calling my attention to prayer. This episode has really address my challenges and other issues that come up when it comes to my prayer life.

I think what I struggle with is the “don’t bother dad” mentality. Like sometimes I feel like what could I possibly say that is of substance to the Almighty? I journal everyday and sometimes when I journal I write my prayers. Like I had a great journaling experience this morning where I wrote down what was on my heart and it was like I could “hear” God. If that makes sense.

I totally agree! That's why I invite the Holy Spirit in even tho it's already there but to take over. Prayer is literally a honest conversation!

On prayer: It is so under rated and yet we have the power to initiate a time/place where divinity meets humanity. What!!!??? This is absolutely amazing and yet the flesh and the enemy of our soul will fight.

Hello from Barbados 🇧🇧 I've said it before, but I really really enjoy seeing y'all laughing together. Thanks

PLEASE READ PLEASE READ! This Podcast caused me to pray for an individual differently.TO NOT focus on what they were doing to me BUT for their heart and hurt that they may have been experiencing. Mr. Perry thank you for sharing your testimony of how you USTED to see people it helped me so much! My testimony is that we had a contractor that wouldn't pay us for work that we completed on one of his projects. Well I changed how I was praying about the matter and he paid the same day! Praise God and again thank you

Can relate with feeling like reading the word is better than praying because it feels like you are doing something. This is so good

“When you love someone you find time” This is good

I love prayer Every day I call it Jesus and daughter time Be Blessed the Perry's

The point about prayer not feeling “productive” like the reading the Bible - can totally relate to that. Thank God I am seeing fruit from conviction surrounding that wrongful thinking. Prayer is incredibly productive.

One of the most helpful things I’ve done is prayer journaling. It is something that is an easy habit to start and you can look back at your past prayers and see how much God has provided and changed you and how much you’ve grown in your faith. But just in the past few weeks/days I’ve started writing down the time that I start a prayer in my journal and what I’ve realized is that because I’ve grown this habit and I truly enjoy getting to sit down and write it all out and in a way externally process my thoughts so I don’t get lost in my prayer, I have learned to slow down. I’m not timing my prayers or anything but I now have a habit of writing prayers to God and I enjoy it so much that I will sacrifice time and other activities to get to do it. I guess I used to think that the best way to pray or sacrifice my time would be in a way that was contrary to my enjoyment, but I think that there are ways that we can enjoy spending time with God.

“He is transcendent yet personal” HALLELUJAH!! I already commented but this is TOO TRUE had to jump in again 🤚🏽!

“I feel like Nigerians be praying like that” so true🤣😩

Thank you so much for this episode. I have fallen away from spending time with God, praying and reading the Word. All that was said in this podcast is things I know but it came to me in a new and fresh way. I want to rekindle that relationship with God again and start TALKING to God, because at the end of the day that is what prayer is. As a newly married man there are many pressures but they have been even heavier because I have not been bringing them to God in prayer. I realize life is so much harder when I don't pray, but consistency has been my downfall. But I am starting afresh because I want that intimate relationship with God again because I know how that feels. God Bless you guys ❤️🙌🏽

Minister Jackie, it's almost creepy how much we have in common even down to some demeanor, mannerisms, vernacular, and testimony. I have to look up many times when I'm listening to make sure it's not me talking 😆. The covenant, partnership, best friendship, collaboration, ministry, transparency, supplication, and Faith Walk between you and your husband Minister Preston is so encouraging, powerful, magnetic, edifying, and PHENOMENAL in The Lord! Minister Preston has a kindness and gentleness in his delivery of GOD'S WORD that oozes into your united effectiveness for CHRIST! Thank you both for laboring in The Lord to see all mankind saved and delivered into The Kingdom of Our Lord Jesus Christ! ❤

So relieving to hear I'm not the only one who prays in the shower!

10 mins in and so many jewels of wisdom being shared. The Spirit is always moving and ocnnecting us. I've been working on being more fluid with my prayer time with the Lord. Giving him my undivided attention. I'm already blessed by this, Thank Yall!

It's definitely a challenge to wait and be still, having confidence in God's provisions . But I agree, the more I understand his attributes and read the word, the more it's easier to pray and trust him in whatever season. Great encouragement! "Help my unbelief"

I love you Jesus! Without you I would never know the fulness of God’s love. My soul is troubled but I know you will continue to lift me up. Jesus you are my strength whenever I am weak. As a single mother I’m overwhelmed at times because both of my children are autistic. I’m desperately struggling trying to support them and myself because like so many others. I lost my job as a social worker at Forsyth hospital because I declined the vaccine. I declined because of my pre existing health condition lupus and heart disease. I was denied my medical/religious exemption. I wish I could go back to the hospital but the mandate is still in place for hospitals that participate in Medicare and Medicaid. I’m waitressing and I’m so thankful to be working again, but I’m not making nearly enough to make ends meet. But God continues to help me. Jesus is my only salvation. I get harassed and called names for simply asking for prayers, but prayers are all we need to get by, and when you’re a real christian people will always crucify you. Thankfully, God gives me strength to keep going. I have faith God will provide. He HAS THIS FAR. Please pray for me and my children.

I recently watched a video about a young woman who used to be in a satanic worship group and she was used to attack Christians. She said she would be in the spirit and seeking out Christians to attack but some would have a dome over them that could not be penetrated because they were praying! She said they realized they could not attack while we pray! She has since given her life to Christ and she said that is the most reassuring part of this walk, to know without a doubt that she is protected in prayer! Wow, right?!

Wowwwww this such a timely word for me. I have been "struggling" to pray for myself recently (but can easily pray for others and with others). The struggle is in some of things you discussed including "busyness" masked as idolatry, distractions and unable to just be still. But admittedly the struggle is in this false belief that God is ready and willing to answer everyone else's prayers EXCEPT mine. I love how God moved me to pause while watching to pray to address these issues and pray for the people I have personal issues with. Thank you Perrys for this topic, the realness and the wisdom. May God continue to bless you and use you for such a time (and generation) like this ♥

I didn't even realize, but I think this sparked a realization for me several hours after I watched this. I was in the middle of mom duties when I started to think about my art. I draw and am severely out of practice, but I want to create things that honor the Lord, like short animations and graphic novels geared towards Christians. I know I need to practice to get better but I struggle with things not coming out the way I imagined them. Even during practice, it's super frustrating for me, even when I try not to have rigid standards. But as I was doing those mom things and had on kids worship music (which really has been wrecking me lately 😂), I realized I haven't been bringing God into my practice. I haven't been praying before I start or even really thinking about surrendering my talent to Him unless I was thinking "God, why is this so hard/why is this obstacle so difficult to overcome so I can focus on practicing?" I realized that I need to pray before I start and recognize I'm not drawing to better myself, perse, but to honor Him. I will definitely be keeping God first on my art and surrender my mistakes and growth to Him.

‘Praying for people is a way of cultivating Love for people, especially our enemies because Jesus told us to pray for our enemies.’ ~Jackie Hill Perry. That’s so good!❤

Praying and reading the word of God is key!

Y’all have profound conversations and it’s a privilege to hear the wisdom and spiritual intimacy you share.

Jackie I always appreciate that you say things about letting go of old church idols..ex. Growing up in church thinking that god is only in the four walls of church.

Matthew 5:9 Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.

"When you pray good for someone who has done you wrong it forces your heart to move in a different way." Yes, true Jackie true! I experienced this when God had me pray for the salvation of the person(s) who murdered my brother 🙏🏿

Amen when you talk to God always you don't have to find time. The best time is in the morning before you get out of bed. Psalms 5:3 👑 "My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O LORD; in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up" Psalms 55:17 🙏 "Morning, noon, and night, I cry out in distress, and He hears my voice."

Thank you for this. God bless you both.

Yes!!! Our gifts and talents are not ours. Hint: the gift. We must stay close, thankful and humble.

I've been a Christian for 30 years and am not sure what a typical "prayer life" looks like but I know I always am praying as I go throughout the day..I guess there are different kinds of prayer...I personally decided to stop my regular things that keep me too busy to pray this year and spend that time for God.🙏

Thank you for an honest and transparent dialogue about prayer. I used to struggle so much in my prayer life because I was legalistic and operated from a standpoint of earning God's love. I also struggled with prayer because I was trying to follow people's formulas. I had to learn to come before God and bring my whole self, the good, bad and ugly before Him. That despite my issues, He still loved me. I had to learn to just pour out my soul before Him. I noticed that after I poured out my soul before God, a stillness would come to my soul. Now I pray because I enjoy spending time with Him, and the exchange is so rich that I literally can't live without Him.

🔥 "...but it''s not ever busyness. It's idolatry." I'm gonna sit with that one. That's a key point on how Bible study is learning/doing so that discipline can be easier to get into than prayer. Oh, the point on productivity v the waiting v an active relationship with God. THEN all of that overlap gets simplified in *how* prayer cultivates a deeper relationship! AND how we can build that through increased leaning on His strength for it! Amen!! That was so spiritually complimentary in real time-wooo! You two. ❤️🔥 I have never heard anyone tie in 1 Pt. 5:8 / keeping a sober mind in connection to abstaining from getting drunk (or let's add in doing drugs). I remember (at my former, legalistic church) Eph. 5:18 being hammered into our minds and it would be at the most random times...just somebody's mom coming up to comb her son's hair with her fingers before going up to sing in the children's choir and looking around at the rest of us, all smiling, and saying something like "all of you kids look wonderful, now remember" (smile drops, eyebrows raise) "God says not to be drunk with wine so don't ever do what your friends do if they ask you if you want a beer." I've been thinking a whole lot lately on how I have learned a lot about God and how I can trust Him and come to Him (esp when I was in an abusive marriage) and continue to learn (post that) how He is a loving father (this part being the challenge for me-which I know plenty of people can say the same-bc of coming up in a legalistic church and having a lot of damage in my relationship with my parents from adolescence well into my adulthood). Only recently I have been unpacking a lot about this with God a little at a time and I feel very hesitant to try again to have any kind of real relationship with either of my parents (that doesn't mean I don't want anything to do with them-there's just a lot of repeat behavior that has broken trust over and over again) while understanding my role is as their daughter before a Holy God. I want to be in His will toward them but without getting wounded again by what they either do or don't mean to do but won't change it. It is taking both prayer and more. But prayer could *not* be left out if I want progress. I would never be making any kind of sense out of it all and what God expects from me, without continuing to come to Him and get in His word, turn on Christian radio and Christian podcasts (like this one), and read books where God can continue to respond with answers. Yes, I agree-there's so much more in the supernatural meeting with Him (prayer)-HE brings the peace, the safety zone, the assurance, the place of belonging that the rationale and shifting sands of emotions simply cannot. Giftedness not being good enough, alone/being humbled/being brought to Him.🔥 Keep speaking truth. Your podcast is so appreciated. 💜

Man.This was so so good.Thank you for this.I related so much

Thank you for this Word! And for Preston's sermon at the end, because it helped ME!!!

So good!! So freeing. “We cannot separate praying from reading the Bible”. Whew

So many awesome points here. Praise God 🙌🏽

“They are praying to a God they don’t even read about”!!!! The framework!! Wow, that was good Jackie!!!

I so love and appreciate this couple ❤️

One of the best podcasts I’ve ever heard on prayer!! Thank y’all so much for this!

Man, I really needed to hear this today. Thank y'all so much for your vulnerability

I love my time with the Perrys, truly educational… y’all be serving.

This was so timely for me! Every single word! Thank you ❤

I LOVE YOU BOTH! THANK YOU GOD FOR THE PERRYS!

I'm so happy I stumbled upon this. God bless you guys

This has blessed me!!! Take everything to God in prayer.

I 👏🏾 needed 👏🏾 this 👏🏾 word!!!!!!

I have been waiting for thisssssss.

This episode was SOOOOO GOOD!!

This episode was super convicting ❤

Yes Jackie, the shower!!! and I thought i was the only one!! The shower is my prayer closet. It's where I am naked and completely exposed before God. The shower, where I feel the warm water on my skin and I feel so alive and so vulnerable. The shower, where I am grateful to be alive and I am in the same state where my life began...naked, just me and the Lord!! I play my worship music and it's my favorite place to prayer and spend time with the Lord!!!🙏🏾❤️

The two of you chime off of each other. Thatz Wonderful.

Thank you for putting into words the struggles I didn’t know how to voice! God bless you both!

Amen, thank you! ❤

Wow, so much blessing 🔥 God bless you!

Amen, Preston… I needed to hear that. I need to look at the person and pray that way

Ooof what a word!! I loved every minute of this podcast, thank you for this. I absolutely loved the breakdown of The Lord's prayer.

This was so good. Every thought that you have had about prayer is what I have had.

Amen! Love what God is doing for you guys! Continued Blessings! 👍🥰

I ain’t even watched yet and this the one I need!!! 🙌🏾

Every time I listen to you I learn a new thing

This is an absolutely wonderful discussion. Sooo enlightening!!!

Yes, the waiting part, being still! Have mercy.

This was sooooo good and confirmation for me right now. I’ve been perfecting my prayer life, so I know it’s not by coincidence that this video popped up on my timeline. Thank y’all for this conversation! ✊🏽❤️🙏🏽

You guys made really great points to consider, thank you for this important conversation!

Y'all are such a blessing to many generations and thank you for keeping it 30 minutes!

Amen, stay blessed keep pursuing ! Wishing the best with the book thank you for the opportunity of sharing

All I can say is Amen to ALL of It!

This has helped me so much and not just about prayer but my relationship with God in general. Thank you!

Wow. This video changed my perspective on prayer. Mind blowing. Thank you so much and May God continue to bless your ministry 🙏🏽

The hand is not sufficient… THANK YOU!!!

This was truly amazing!

I can listen to you guys the whole day!🙏 May God bless you guys and this ministry.

This was so profound and a great perspective to prayer

This 🙏🏾!! Was needed every time I listen to this podcast I feel so edified and filled ! This was a blessing I needed to hear this & I agree about not being able to sit still ❤

You both are on point with this.

"The temptation to be productive over being prayerful, underneath that is impatience." So true, preach it!

@theperrys what Preston said at the end definitely was a word for me as well that’s crazy 🙏🏾

That praying before and during the time I write is a must! Thanks for the reminder! I lean on my own ability and I definitely get writers block. Smh this was definitely needed.

Im at 13 minutes I had to keep pausing because the wisdom I’m getting from you both is beautiful!! Thank you so much for being obedient and sharing this