1. Winterlude 2013 Prayer Zone Workout workshop Rachel Britton @racheljbritton rachel@britton2000.com PrayerZoneWorkout.com

2. Introduction Rachel Britton Grace Chapel women’s ministries updates and devotional www.grace.org/women prayerzoneworkout.com Facebook/prayerzonework.com Twitter: @racheljbritton

3. Overview My journey with the practice of prayer How to use the PZW structure Practicing PZW exercises Where do you go from here Jump-start your heart for the New Year!

4. My journey with prayer Prayer is hard to do Difficult to stay motivated and focused Life is too busy for a regular prayer time Dare we say -prayer is “boring” We think “We have to have everything ‘just right’ in order to pray.” Richard Foster, Prayer: Finding the heart’s true home.

5. The beginning of the journey: In the classroom Prayer: from head to heart from thoughts to talk a spiritual heart massage as God’s perspective

6. The journey after the classroom The problem: How to continue a consistent practice of transformative personal prayer in the midst of life. The solution: Combining physical exercise and prayer: Achievable Practical Motivational Experience the “zone”

7. A link between the two disciplines of prayer and exercise - the heart Cardiovascular exercise is concerned with the physical heart. Prayer is concerned with the spiritual heart. Prayer is not a matter of changing things externally, but one of the working miracles in a person’s inner nature. Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for his Highest.

8. PRAYER ZONE WORKOUT for the Heart The purpose of personal prayer in a Prayer Zone Workout is to improve the fitness of your spiritual heart while you improve the fitness of your physical heart through cardiovascular (aerobic) exercise.

9. The Prayer Zone Workout Structure

10. The features of a Prayer Zone Workout 5 minute segments include: A word from scripture Meditation The truth being meditated upon passes from the mouth into the mind and down into the heart… Richard Foster, Prayer Finding the Heart’s True Home. Using the imagination: Ignatius of Loyola – Spiritual Exercises – entering the stories of the Gospels Using our breathing Journal

11. Entering God’s Throne Room God, your heavenly Father

12. Talking to your heavenly Father Talking about everything

13. Listening to your heavenly Father Breath prayer – breathing in the Holy Spirit

14. Leaving God’s Throne Room A healthy heart

15. My Prayer Zone Workout Journal What one or two things did I learn about my own practice of prayer today? What did I talk about with my heavenly Father? What did I hear from my heavenly Father?

16. My Prayer Zone Workout Plan Location: What is special about this place? Time: Duration: Days: Exercise type: