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 simple but searching question: when did you last hear the Lord say come and talk with me? Brian Hunter brought this to the surface in back-to-back messages from Psalm 27, where David writes that his heart heard God say exactly that and responded by turning toward him. Brian's point is that this kind of prayer is not a discipline you perform so much as a conversation you enter, and that God is always the one who initiates it first.
A lot of what Brian teaches on this topic runs through his framework of spirit, soul, and body. Before someone is born again, the soul and body tend to run the show. After, the spirit is meant to be in charge, taking direction from God and bringing the rest of a person along into a response. That is what he sees happening in Psalm 27:8. God's spirit speaks to the human spirit, and the spirit then has to activate the soul and body to actually show up. He says that people who feel they cannot hear the Lord may be listening through the wrong channel, through the five senses rather than through the spirit. As Brian puts it, "He longs to talk with you. His word says, my heart has heard you say, come and talk with me."
The practical danger Brian names is not rest but drift, what he calls the doldrums, a sailor's word for being becalmed with no wind and no direction. The form of the Christian life can still look intact while a person has quietly stopped listening. Against that, Brian offered a straightforward pattern for carving out time with God: set aside a few minutes each morning, put on some worship music, read through Psalm 27, and then sit quietly and listen through the spirit rather than the senses. The goal, he said, is not to go through motions but to actually be present with the Lord.
Taught from Psalm 27 · Psalm 27:8 · 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.