You're Not Talking to a Stranger
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You're Not Talking to a Stranger

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 5, 20262 min
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  • Religion

The first two words of the Lord's Prayer change everything. Before you ask for anything, before you confess anything — God invites you to call him Father. Not king. Not judge. Father.

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And that's where a lot of us like me get stuck, because dad's a bad word.

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how you can too, and how we can all unlock the power of prayer

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Most people pray like they're filing a request with someone they've never met. But Jesus says to start with dad. And that's where a lot of us like me get stuck, because dad's a bad word. But I'm going to show you how I personally healed my relationship with this word,

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how you can too, and how we can all unlock the power of prayer as we discover who we're really praying to. In Matthew 6, when Jesus teaches us to pray the Lord's prayer, He starts it with our Father in heaven.

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But I have a complicated relationship with my father and maybe you also have a relationship that's loaded with context of unmet needs, emotional distance or outright non-existence.

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