Welcome to season 2! Jen and Don overview what has been going on as Pray Through It grows into a non-profit ministry and what to expect for this season of Unquenchable.
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Transcript: Unquenchable Podcast: Season 2 EP 0: Intro and Overview of Season 2
[00:00:00] Don Love: Welcome to season two of Unquenchable equipping and inspiring you and your church to discover prayer practices that renew hearts and minds.
[00:00:08] A lot has happened since last season among other things Pray Through It is now a 501(C)3 nonprofit. And along with that comes more retreats and trainings. And we’ve now started a Prayer Leader Collective online and in person where listening and inner healing, prayer leaders meet monthly to learn from notable inner healing and deliverance ministers.
[00:00:28] And now we’re gearing up to launch our own residential and Online Prayer School.
[00:00:33] My name’s Don Love, and I’m here today with my bride of almost 20 years and my ministry partner, Jennifer Love to give you a sneak peek into season two of unquenchable.
[00:00:43] Jennifer Love: Hello
[00:00:44] Don Love: if you listened to last season, you know that Jen and I are listening and inner healing, prayer leaders who came out of a conservative Christian background that didn’t really talk about the listening side of prayer, let alone inner healing or deliverance. Although we had both been trained in biblically-grounded [00:01:00] universities and seminaries that spoke about the role of the holy spirit in a theological way. We were taught very little about the practical side of his role and the role that listening and inner healing prayer can play in our Christian lives.
[00:01:14] Jennifer Love: Last season’s focus was on how our paradigm shifted as our lives and the lives of those. We prayed through things with experience, deep inner healing and intimacy with Christ through prayer. And we will never be the same. It’s revolutionized the way that we view what it means to have a personal relationship with Jesus and how we’ve gone about to minister, to others.
[00:01:31] Don Love: All that was happening was very much in line with the stories and teachings of scripture. What one might expect if they took the Bible. Several times a week, we would see people experienced breakthrough that they thought would never come, through prayer. And the college students we were praying with were going out right after their prayer sessions with little or no training and we’re seeing similar breakthroughs with their friends and relatives as they lead them in similar ways. It was almost as though their realization [00:02:00] that a sustained and expectant two-way conversation with God was all that was needed for them to pray through things with others.
[00:02:08] Jennifer Love: Back then, we hadn’t really heard about other prayer approaches that were coming out of other denominations. Some that you may have heard of like Emmanuel Prayer, Theophostic Prayer Transformation Prayer, Christian Healing Ministries, Restoring the Foundations, SOZO, HeartSync. There’s many of them out there! We hadn’t heard of them. And so we were under the impression that listening and inner-healing prayer is not something that really requires training. It’s something that anybody can do and they should do. And so we were kind of hesitant to study these approaches because it seemed as though they were imposing an unnecessary structure on prayer. But in hindsight, much of what was coming naturally to us was very much a part of the things that God was already doing in these various schools of prayer that we’re spanning across every denomination. And as we would learn later, unknowingly, our approach was influenced by leaders from some of those approaches we didn’t yet know about.
[00:02:56] Don Love: But as we began more formerly discipling prayer leaders for our own team, we [00:03:00] realized that we too had an unconscious form of structure. Even Jesus gave his disciples structure when he gave them what we call The Lord’s Prayer. And we started to see in our own trainings that it’s especially helpful for beginners to have some structure and tools to work with before they’re expected to do things on the fly.
[00:03:17] Jennifer Love: One person compared it to knowing scales, I’m playing. Initially, you spend a lot of time learning the theory and the scales, but once you have that down, you can develop your own style and you can adapt it based upon the band that you’re playing with. So in the same way, it’s possible with various approaches to prayer, to understand the theory and techniques, and then develop your own style. So while we still believe that all can listen and experience deep inner healing and intimacy with Christ through prayer, without formal training, we all the more see how learning from other prayer ministers, even those from other denominations is so beneficial
[00:03:49] Don Love: In this season. We’ll be spreading the net a bit broader. Inviting you to learn and grow with us. As we discuss listening, inner healing and deliverance prayer with prayer leaders from various schools of prayer. [00:04:00]
[00:04:00] Jennifer Love: So join us for season two of unquenchable. As we traveled church to church, city to city discovering what God has been doing in listening, inner healing and deliverance prayer.
[00:04:09] Don Love: And we look forward to meeting quite a few of you in person and online in our Prayer Leader Collective PLC (and in our School of Prayer.
