What does Tribe teach about prayer habits?
Drawn from the messages where it was actually addressed: the words said from the front, the passages taught, and where to hear the whole thing.
At Tribe, the teaching on prayer habits starts with a conviction that God is actively inviting people into conversation, not waiting to be convinced. Brian Hunter, who has preached on this, points to Psalm 27:8 as the clearest picture of how that works: God's Spirit speaks to the human spirit, and the spirit's job is to bring the soul and body along into a response. Brian says, "He longs to talk with you. His word says, my heart has heard you say, come and talk with me." That invitation, the teaching insists, is not seasonal or conditional. It is as open in the quiet, directionless stretches of the year as it is at the high points.
A lot of what Brian pressed on is the difference between resting and drifting. He named the way the spirit can go flat not because anything dramatic happened, but because the sail just came down quietly and we stopped listening. He called it the doldrums, a sailing term for being becalmed with no wind and no direction. His concern was not rest itself, which he described as good and necessary, but the slide from rest into a kind of spiritual deadness where we are no longer positioned to hear anything. He asked his congregation honestly when was the last time they heard that still small voice say come and talk with me, and he acknowledged that some people are not even sure the Lord speaks that way at all.
On the practical side, Brian's suggestion was simple and low-pressure: set aside time in the morning, put on some worship music, read through Psalm 27, and then sit quietly and listen. He also addressed why some people feel they cannot hear God at all, saying the issue is often that they are listening through the five senses rather than through the spirit. The Holy Spirit, he taught, is given to every believer and is the channel through which God communicates. The posture the teaching calls for is not striving but availability, showing up and letting the spirit do what it was given to do.
Taught from Psalm 27:8 · Psalm 27 · Jeremiah 12:5
“If racing against mere men makes you tired, how will you race against horses?”
From Come and Talk with Me
The passage taught · Jeremiah 12:5
5 “If you have run with the footmen, and they have wearied you, then how can you contend with horses? Though in a land of peace you are secure, yet how will you do in the pride of the Jordan?
World English Bible
Messages that go deeper
- December 30, 2024 Come and Talk with Me Pastor Brian Hunter walks Tribe through Psalm 27, calling the congregation out of holiday spiritual drift and into quiet, attentive time with God before the new year.
- December 22, 2024 Come and Talk with Me A sermon on Psalm 27 about staying spiritually alert during the lull between Christmas and New Year's, with four simple practices to quiet yourself and hear God speak.