{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"New Song Students OKC","title":"Prayer - Honest Prayers - Molly Ratliff","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/ab3150c6\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2786,"description":"“Trust in Him at all times, you people, pour out your heart before Him, God is a refuge for us.” Psalms 62:8\n\n\n\n“in every situation by prayer let your requests be known to God.” Phil 4:6\n\n\n\nThe reality is every meaningful relationship requires us to learn four things: how to be together (wk. 1), how to talk honestly (wk 2), how to trust deeply (wk 3), and how to work toward the same purpose (wk 4). \n\n\n\n\nHONEST PRAYERS\n\n\n\nHonest: telling the truth; things that are real, genuine, sincere, open and frank about real thoughts or feelings.\n\n\n“Do not imagine that the Lord looks down with any pleasure upon the tens of thousands of forms of prayer…. which are presented to him without heart: such forms rather weary him than worship him… The God of truth can never accept an untruthful devotion…Alas many of our fellow men never pray; and many who think they pray are yet strangers to that sacred exercise. Perhaps you deny that you are thus guilty, for you have always said a prayer, and would not have gone to sleep at night if you had not done so, that I pray you, remember that you may have repeated holy words….and yet may have never prayed a prayer with your heart.”- Charles Spurgeon\n\n\n\nHonest prayers are prayers given to God by who you actually are.\n1)\tthe ritual of prayer > the relationship of prayer\n\n\n\n2)\twe don’t fully trust we can be honest\n\n\n\n“To pretend to be other than we are before God is a hideous madness”- Charles Spurgeon\n\n\n\nThe real sin, the real hypocrisy, is limiting our prayers but pretending God is getting our full heart.\n\n\n\n\n | honest pray-ers | Honest prayers | Scripture ref. \n| David | Vindication; forgiveness; praise | Ps 109:1-2,4,7-13; Ps 51; Ps 28\n| Elijah | Overwhelmed and depressed | 1 Kings 19:4\n| Jonah | Questioned God’s way | Jonah 4:1-3\n| Father | Faith and doubt | Mark 9\n| Jesus | Soul exceedingly sorrowful | Matthew 26:38-39\n| Joshua | Bold request | Joshua 10:12\n\n\n\n\n“1 Do not keep silent, O God of my praise!2 For the mouth of the wicked and...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/BjiZxrt0a9mZ2dDE8857wRItwuk9xfgMH36A4JE3q70/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzI3OTc4LzE2OTMw/NzI5MzktYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}