My weird story

It all began when I was praying in my closet one November afternoon in 2020, and I asked God:

“Hey God. Anything you want to say to me?”

And after briefly listening I heard:

“Yep. Quit your job.”

Now I get it. You may wonder (as I did too at the time) how I could know this was actually a word from God, and not just the oatmeal from breakfast doing funny things to my brain. If you keep reading my stuff I answer that question in detail elsewhere…

… but for now just know that I took a few weeks to discern this “word” with my friends — and sure maybe we were wrong — but through praying together we became convinced that it was a real invitation from Jesus to me.

So I quit my job.

Losing my life savings + the question it led me to

This kicked off a period of soul searching and trying to figure out what God was doing in my life. My wife was a full time student and thus wasn't working. So we burnt through our life savings pretty fast.

Whoopee.

During that soul searching, I thought about what I wanted my life to be "about".

And I decided that the most important thing in life is to be with God. And one of the best ways to be with God, practically speaking, is to pray. And Paul said in 1 Thessalonians 5:17 “pray without ceasing” — and although most people don’t read that literally, I wondered “what if I did read that literally?”

... "if life is about being with God - why not give my 100% to trying to learn how to remain with Him all the time in prayer?"

So I began an experiment.

I decided to see if it was possible to take Paul at his word - to see if I could train myself to pray every minute of every day.

... during every activity, conversation, meeting, grocery shop, chore, book reading, and 5 minutes of consciousness before falling asleep.

For example, as I write these words on this page, is it possible for me to remain in prayer while I write? What would that look like? How could I learn to do it?

I started asking those questions. And spent the last 3 years trying to answer them.

And today, I am still inside my "weird experiment". 

So how has it gone?

How has the prayer experiment gone?

Terribly.

I am far away from my goal still. 

I forget to pray for long chunks of many days - hours at a time, sometimes - and have even gone through a few seasons of a couple months at a time, where I check in with God only a few times a day.

But also, how has the prayer experiment gone?

Wonderfully.

It has changed my life.

My life feels so much more full of God than before — I feel Him with me throughout long chunks of many days, here as I write on my computer, here as I do the dishes, here as I drive in the car, here as I watch a sunset — I have learned so much, and bumped into so many wonderful people along the way — I hear God’s whispers and feel His nudges so much more than before...

... in other words, it has taken more time than expected - and has yielded more fruit than expected. 

So here’s the deal.

I have an agenda in telling you this story.

My secret agenda for telling you this story

I’m convinced there are lots of people who — like me — have only scratched the surface of that great, swashy ocean of being-with-God that is possible in this life.

Maybe you're one of them.

… people who live their life, go to church, maybe even have a 20 minute quiet time at the start of each day, but deep down inside, in their bones, in the spiritual fibers that make up their heart of hearts, they know, “there is more than this”. 

… they read their Bibles and find women and men who saw something, knew something, lived something that we today know very little of; men and women who had a peace, a joy, an immersion, a fire, a radical devotion that was the inevitable outflow of something they knew...

The "something" you've been missing all these years

In my search for continuous prayer I feel like I’m stumbling into that “something”.

... that we have forgotten, lost, or perhaps never known.

... the treasure buried the field.

... the TRULY easy yoke.

... the "secret" that the apostles knew which kept them bursting with hymns of praise and joy even while they were flogged, stripped, thrown in prison and killed.

And so a couple years ago I started writing down stories and reflections from my prayer experiment - and emailing them to a handful of people.

Then something cool happened...

People started reaching out to me and saying stuff like...

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Here's what will happen right after you sign up:

Over the next 14 days I'll send you an email every day, summarizing some of the most important points of my story and lessons learned so far like:

• The 5-word prayer that has, more than anything, helped me pray more frequently and easily. I’m not a fan of “magic formulas”, and this prayer is by no means a formula… but once you learn it, you’ll see what I mean… it changes how you think about God, and yourself, and life, and everything
  
• How to ACTUALLY figure out your “life purpose”
  
• How to tell when God is speaking — VS when it’s just your own thoughts, or worse, a demonic person or force
  

After those initial 14 days are over, the frequency of my emails will switch and you’ll start receiving an email from me once a week.