{"id":2703,"date":"2026-02-12T18:55:49","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T23:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.randyadkinsjr.com\/speaker\/?p=2703"},"modified":"2026-02-12T20:22:04","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T01:22:04","slug":"prayer-beyond-words-what-is-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.randyadkinsjr.com\/speaker\/prayer-beyond-words-what-is-prayer\/","title":{"rendered":"Prayer Beyond Words: What is Prayer?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Prayer Beyond Words: What is Prayer?\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4YtJe5HA-Uc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The episode delves into the true essence of prayer, emphasizing the importance of heart-aligned communion with God over performative and misunderstood prayer practices. It highlights the power of vulnerability, honesty, and alignment in prayer, challenging listeners to seek a deeper, more relational approach to prayer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Takeaways <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>* Prayer is about meeting someone, not just saying the right words<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>* Prayer is not primarily speaking to God, but communion with God<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The episode delves into the true essence of prayer, emphasizing the importance of heart-aligned communion with God over performative and misunderstood prayer practices. It highlights the power of vulnerability, honesty, and alignment in prayer, challenging listeners to seek a deeper, more relational approach to prayer. Takeaways * Prayer is about meeting someone, not just saying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2704,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-podcast-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randyadkinsjr.com\/speaker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randyadkinsjr.com\/speaker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randyadkinsjr.com\/speaker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randyadkinsjr.com\/speaker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randyadkinsjr.com\/speaker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2703"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.randyadkinsjr.com\/speaker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2712,"href":"https:\/\/www.randyadkinsjr.com\/speaker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2703\/revisions\/2712"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randyadkinsjr.com\/speaker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randyadkinsjr.com\/speaker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randyadkinsjr.com\/speaker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randyadkinsjr.com\/speaker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}