Teach Us to Pray with Jack Price
Episode Summary
In this episode of the KC Underground podcast, Brian and Cory are joined by Jack Price, disciple-maker and global coach with Novo, for a conversation about cultivating a life of prayer that naturally overflows into disciple-making. As part of the Teach Us to Pray series, Jack reflects on growing up in a family where prayer, listening to God, and making disciples were woven into everyday life. From prayer walking school hallways and leading Discovery Bible Studies as a teenager to seeing God move across college campuses and among unreached communities around the world, Jack shares how learning to hear God's voice has shaped every season of his journey.
This episode explores what it means to become the kind of person who expects God to speak and is willing to respond with simple obedience. Jack, Brian, and Cory discuss listening prayer, prayer walking, spiritual discernment, and the patient work of partnering with the Holy Spirit over months and even years. Through stories of transformation, healing, and disciple-making, this episode offers a vision of prayer not as preparation for mission, but as the very way we discover where Jesus is already at work and faithfully join Him in the harvest.
Key Themes & Takeaways
1. Prayer Is Learned Through a Lifestyle, Not a Lesson
Jack grew up in a home where prayer was simply part of everyday life.
His family regularly practiced Discovery Bible Studies, shared daily gratitude and struggles, and prayed together through life's challenges.
His parents modeled dependence on Jesus, creating a safe environment where faith was lived rather than simply taught.
Prayer became something to experience, not merely something to study.
2. Learning to Hear God's Voice
During college, Jack intentionally spent hours sitting quietly with Scripture, asking God to speak and committing to obey whatever He heard.
After months of faithfully listening, he looked back and realized God had consistently fulfilled what He had impressed on his heart.
This season established a lifelong conviction that followers of Jesus can hear His voice and respond in obedience.
Listening became the foundation for every decision in ministry and disciple-making.
3. Prayer Leads Us to the Harvest
One of Jack's defining moments came while fly fishing, where God impressed on him the lesson: "When you listen to My voice, I will lead you to where the fish are abundant."
That experience became a picture of disciple-making—God has already prepared the harvest, and prayer helps us discover where He is already at work.
Rather than asking God to bless our plans, Jack encourages believers to ask where God is moving and simply join Him there.
Prayer shifts ministry from striving to partnership with the Holy Spirit.
4. Prayer and Disciple-Making Are Inseparable
Throughout college and ministry, prayer gatherings consistently became launching points for disciple-making.
Prayer rooms turned into places of inner healing, confession, and multiplication as people were immediately encouraged to share what God had done with others.
Around the world, Jack has seen prayer open doors for Discovery Bible Studies, new churches, and transformed communities.
Healthy disciple-making movements grow out of people who first learn to listen to God.
5. Prayer Walking Creates Opportunities to Join God's Mission
Jack describes prayer walking as intentionally asking:
"God, what are You already doing?"
"How can we partner with You?"
Prayer walking includes listening, blessing neighborhoods, engaging people in conversation, praying over homes, and discerning where God is inviting His people to act.
Rather than looking for ministry opportunities to create, prayer walking helps believers discover the opportunities God has already prepared.
The goal is always obedience, not performance.
6. Faithfulness Often Requires Patience
Jack shares stories of leaders praying faithfully for years before seeing breakthrough, including one movement leader who prayed for a region for ten years before seeing an entire family come to Christ.
Other stories include workplace Discovery Bible Studies that began after years of persistent prayer and prayer walking.
Prayer forms perseverance by teaching believers to trust God's timing while remaining faithful to His leading.
Breakthrough often comes after long seasons of quiet obedience.
Final Thoughts
Prayer is far more than a spiritual discipline—it is a way of living in continual conversation with Jesus. As believers learn to hear His voice, trust His leading, and faithfully respond, they discover that God is already preparing people, places, and opportunities for His Kingdom. Prayer doesn't simply prepare us for mission; it becomes the very way we participate in it.
