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Jun 2023
18m 50s

When God Tests Your Heart in Prayer

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How do you deal with the struggles you have in prayer? It can be very easy to become discouraged in prayer. Perhaps you are experiencing dryness in prayer or loneliness. Maybe you are being attacked with doubts. Today, Dr. Sri addresses some of the challenges we may face in prayer and how we can respond to those challenges.

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It is in the moments of dryness and darkness in prayer that God is inviting us to take that next step in our relationship with him.

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