Seed To Tree

What is prayer, why is it important and how do we pray? These are questions we explore in this Journey Into Episode. Outline and Book Recommendations via this link (click the link and then the pdf icon) https://www.seedtotreeministry.com/thepodcast Time Stamps 0:00:00 Introduction To Seed to Tree Podcast 0:00:30 Why Start With Prayer 0:01:50 Prayer Is Mystery Not Mechanical 0:2:40 There Not One Way To Pray 0:07:30 What is Prayer 0:09:17 Two Pillars of Prayer 0:09:30 Humility Human In Need 0:11:47 Honesty The Best Policy In Prayer 0:19:34 Prayer Is Intentional 0:21:15 When Do Pray? and What Do We Pray? 0:24:25 Brief History Of Structured Prayer 0:26:10 The Didache and Structure Prayer 0:28:36 Early Church Fathers and the Monastic Movement 0:31:48 Structured Prayer For the everyday Person 0:36:20 What are The Benefits of Structure Prayer 0:37:58 The Dangers of Structure Prayer 0:39:59 My Personal Journey With Structure Prayer 0:41:58 Synthesising Structure Prayer 0:42:58 Spontaneously Praying Whenever And Whatever 0:45:08 What Are the Benefits of Spontaneous Prayer 0:47:55 The Dangers of Spontaneous Prayer 0:51:58 What Can Structure and Spontaneity Prayers Look Like for us today? 0:56:00 What Is Attention In Prayer 0:56:56 Why Attention? 0:59:20 Where do We Set Our Attention? 1:01:37 Attention In the Lord’s Prayer 1:07:47 What Does Attention Practically Look Like in Prayer? 1:08:28 Praying The Psalms 1:10:26 Contemplation Prayers 1:12:09 Centering Prayers 1:13:44 Lectio Divina Prayers 1:17:26 Visio Divina Prayers 1:19:30 Silence In Prayer 1:21:23 Liturgy in Prayers 1:22:06 What Are Benefits of Setting Our Attention in Prayer? 1:22:42 Orientation, Disorientation and Renewed Orientation In Prayer 1:27:50 Synthesising Attention In Prayer 1:28:00 Expression to God in Prayer 1:28:58 What Is Expression in Prayer? 1:29:46 What Comes In Must Come Out 1:32:04 Expressing Internal and External World to God 1:34:19 How Do We Express to God In Prayer? 1:36:08 Confessional Prayer 1:36:53 Prayers Of Relinquish 1:38:25 The Prayer of Examen 1:42:38 Prayers of Thanksgiving and Praise 1:44:44 Creative Expression Prayers 1:44:55 Intercessory Prayers 1:46:43 Prayers of Deliverance 1:49:39 Praying In Tongues 1:52:03 Praying With Our Body 1:52:57 Prayers of Lament 1:54:14 Praying In With and For Community 1:56:33 Discernment in Prayer 1:59:16 Journaling Prayers 2:01:48 Sanctified Imagination Prayers 2:04:30 Formational Healing Prayers 2:08:24 Synthesis Expression in Prayer 2:09:40 Final Thoughts and Prayer

Grow Deeper: https://www.seedtotreeministry.com/resources Hey Friends, unfortunately, we will not be able to finish this series the way we originally intended due to circumstances in our lives that were out of our control but impacted our capacity to create these episodes. We hope something in these episodes has been encouraging for you, if you want to stay up to date on what is next for us, the best way to do this is to follow us on the Instagram page link below: thanks again for following along with us, https://www.instagram.com/seedtotreeministry/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igshid=OGQ5ZDc2ODk2ZA== Josiah and Kara

Grow Deeper: www.seedtotreeministry.com 00:00 -Introduction 03:11 – Chapter 1 What Are The Monuments of Our Life? 06:55 Chapter 2 The Decay Rate Of Satisfaction 10:00 Chapter 3 Who Are We Without The Monuments? 13:30 Chapter 4 Why Do We Desire the Monuments? 17:33 Chapter 5 The Idolization Of the Monuments 21:29 Chapter 6 Where Did This Desire For The Monument Come From? 25:11 Chapter 7 What Do We Ultimately Want In Life? 29:31 Chapter 8 God’s Desire For Us 33:55 Chapter 9 Restoring Our Desires Gives Us Eyes To See The Life Around Us 40:49 Chapter 10 The Gospel Is Refreshing 43:23 Chapter 11 Moments Over Monuments Hope something in this has been encouraging for you, J and K

Grow Deeper: ⁠https://www.seedtotreeministry.com⁠ In this episode, Kara-Lee and Josiah discuss the power of Spiritual Practices. ⁠00:00⁠- Introduction ⁠02:00⁠ Chapter 1- What Spiritual Practices Are Important for Kara? ⁠04:50⁠ Chapter 2- Lectio Divina and Studying the Bible ⁠11:20⁠ Chapter 3- Spiritual Practice As Ways of Connection ⁠14:02⁠ Chapter 4- Different Expressions of Connections ⁠19:35⁠ Chapter 5 God Won’t Fit In The Box I Put Him In ⁠23:11⁠ Chapter 6- Role Of Deconstruction and Reconstruction ⁠28:50⁠ Chapter 7- Different Ways Into The Relationship ⁠33:40⁠ Chapter 8- When Connection Turns To Disconnection ⁠40:02⁠ Chapter 9- Connecting to God In and Out of Season ⁠48:16⁠ Chapter 10-Walking With Others Through Difficult Times ⁠54:07⁠ Chapter 11- How To Experience God In New Ways ⁠58:25⁠ Chapter 12- The Heart Behind The Practice Thanks for listening J and K

Grow Deeper: https://www.seedtotreeministry.com In this episode, Kara-Lee and Josiah sit down to describe the power of the presence. 00:00 Introduction A Story About Presence in Kingston 06:20 Chapter 1: Josiah’s Experience with Presence in Kingston 10:36 Chapter 2: Cultivating Presence 16:45 Chapter 3: With Presence Comes Resistance 26:38 Chapter 4: The Relationship Between Identity and Presence 32:30 Chapter 5: Holding Space for The Enemy Within 47:08 Chapter 6: There Is So Much Grace 52:11 Chapter 7: The Role of the Holy Spirit 58:35 Chapter 8: Different Ways of Connecting To God 1:08:40 Chapter 9: The Barriers to Entrance 1:17:28 Chapter 10: Witnessing the Presence in One Another 1:24:14 Chapter 11: A Final Story about the Power of the Presence of God Thank you for listening, next week's episode will be on the Power of Practice.

Grow Deeper: https://www.seedtotreeministry.com Kara-Lee and Josiah begin this series with a conversation about their journey in finding out they are unable to have biological children. Topics such as grief, lamenting, processing, messiness of life and where God is all are addressed in episode 1 of this series. 00:00 Introduction 01:23 The Road Trip, The Tale of Two Journeys 11:01 Our Infertility Journey 21:46 Beginning Our Grief Journey 25:57 Kara’s Grief Journey 32:54 Resisting A Cure-Based Approach to Grief 39:49 What Does Leaning Into Pain Look Like? 44:03 The Confusion of The Role Of Suffering In Our Spiritual Journey 49:17 What Is The Point of Pain? 52:35 Beauty In The Ashes 59:00 What Waiting Looks Like? Thank you for listening, we hope something in this has been encouraging for you in your journey. Next week's episode is on The Power of Presence.