Jay Breish recounts how a prayer session that helped him to process his daughter's near-death experience, led him to not only reconsider the way that he views and approaches God in prayer, but also the way that he led a residential home for troubled teens and their families. 

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Season 2 Ep 1: God is a Good Father

[00:00:00] Jay Breish: One of my children was very, very sick and we didn't know if they were going to live. It was in those storms when I was seeking him that I began to recognize how he was speaking. God connected me with someone who was familiar with listening and inner healing, prayer. They prayed with me and I saw some radical transformations in a moment from that time of prayer. It gave me permission to say, I can talk to God about anything. And it doesn't have to just be me whining and complaining and begging and pleading and hoping. It could be, maybe, God actually does want to give me the desires of my heart.

[00:01:04] Don Love: Scripture tells us to taste and see the God is good. And as we pray through things with folks, we're finding confirmation that God is a good father who wants to speak to his children. Even before salvation, his spirit is working in our hearts to draw us to himself. He's there gently waiting to carry our burdens and to give us life. My name is Don Love and today I've invited Jay Breish to join us, to share a bit about how his daughter's illness and a listening and inner healing prayer session led him to uncover the lies he was believing about himself, and God and how this new understanding of prayer rippled out into the counselors in this counseling ministry and the troubled teens they ministered to. Jay's someone we got to know over the last year. And I got to say, I really love this guy. He's a counselor at heart, and I've watched him time and time again, as he and his wife come to the rescue of those in need, helping folks process life through. They seem to be especially gifted when it comes to helping people in crisis mode, bringing joy into the situation as they meet each urgent need. This makes sense because he and his wife, Hannah spent many years ministering at a residential home for troubled youth. So Jay, welcome to the show.

[00:02:15] Jay Breish: Thanks for having me. It's good to be here.

[00:02:17] Don Love: Jay, would you tell us a bit about how you came to discover listening and inner healing prayer in your own life?

[00:02:24] Jay Breish: Yeah. You know, , it's kind of a long story. When I think about it, we have a tendency to say, oh, well, on this day, this is what the Lord did in my life. But the Lord has been stirring me. And speaking to me and with me and guiding me since I was a child. And I don't think that's unusual for us. I just think that most of the time we don't recognize it. Yeah. , so I grew up in a Bible believing conservative church, wonderful men and women of God taught us the importance of scripture and I grew up in that environment where people look to the word of God for their truth and their direction. And that's great. And that is true. And yet, sometimes we miss the intimate guidance and direction that God has provided for us by, indwelling us with his Holy Spirit. He's called the comforter and the guide, the counselor. And so I didn't have a whole lot of training in that growing up and yet I look back and somehow God was directing me ministering to me. Refocusing me in the midst of life's challenges and storms. I just wasn't aware of it until much later. So, for me, the journey actually began more with, I think, identity and learning who I am as a son and who he is as a good father and the gifts and the inheritance that come with that beyond just salvation and beyond, just His written word, but how in the moment he wants to be with us to comfort us and to guide us. And it was in those storms when I was seeking him that I began t...