Teaching | The Solitude Practice | Encounter With Our Self E2
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What is the ancient practice of solitude and why does it matter?
Hello and welcome. My name is Yinka Dawson and I'm the host of Practice in the Way with John Mark Homer, a podcast featuring teachings and conversations with John Mark and other voices to help us journey into a deeper life with God. We're continuing our series on the ancient practice of solitude, shared by John Mark at Vintage Church in Los Angeles, California. In today's teaching, John Mark invites us to follow Jesus' path into solitude, where we can give our feelings, desires, and trust to God and be shaped by his transforming love in return. If you'd like to continue exploring what it means to build a life with God in solitude, we have two invitations for you. First, John Mark's newest book Into the Quiet is now available for pre-order.
Second, you can join John Mark in person for the Into the Quiet experience, coming to a city near you between now and November 12th. Secure your copy and purchase your ticket using the links in the episode description and we pray that you're able to discover how you can step out of the chronic noise of our world and into the presence of the God of peace. Lastly, we're a crowdfunded non-profit so everything they make, including this podcast, is completely free because it's already been paid for by the circle and other givers. Thank you all for your generosity. If you'd like to join these friends in the circle, visit practiceintheway.org forward slash generous. Here's John Mark with today's teaching on the encounter with ourself.
Лемий у монта. To just come to quiet on the inside, not just the outside. Before God. You may just want to whisper That ancient prayer speak, Lord. Your servant is listening.
Come, Holy Spirit. Would you pray that? Three-word prayer out loud with me. One, two, three. Come, Holy Spirit. Matthew chapter twenty six, verse thirty six. Then Jesus went with his disciples to a place called Gethsemane. And he said to them, Sit here while I go over there and pray. Took Peter and the two sons of Zebedee along with him and he began to be sorrowful and troubled. Then he said to them, My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death, stay here and keep watch with me. Going a little farther, he fell with his face to the ground and prayed, My Father, if it is possible, may this cup be taken from me. Yet not as I will, but as you will. Then he returned to his disciples and he found them sleeping.
Couldn't you men keep watch with me for one hour? he asked Peter. Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak. He went away a second time and he prayed, My Father, if it is not possible for this cup to be taken away unless I drink it. May your will be done. And when he came back he again found them sleeping, because their eyes were heavy, so he left them and went away once more, prayed the third time, saying the same thing. Then he returned to the disciples and he said to them, Are you still sleeping and resting? Look, the hour has come, and the Son of Man is delivered into the hands of sinners. Rise, let us go. Here comes my betrayer. Take a seat.
It was twenty-one days long in an isolated cabin up in Puget Sound in the Pacific Northwest in the dead of winter, kind of out in the middle of the nowhere, right on the coast. I was all alone. No phone, no computer. You literally hand over all of your devices when you check in, no books. The Bible was quote allowed, and yes, that was the word.
No alcohol, no more than one cup of coffee a day, no exercise, or at least cardiovascular exercise, nothing to quote discharge anxiety from my body. And no contact with the outside world. You pack in all your own food and do all your own cooking. Your one point of human contact is five mornings a week at 5 50 AM when quote, your mind is more open to its unconscious. Not sure what I think about that. You do an hour and a half of depth therapy with a clinical psychologist and spiritual director. Depth therapy is similar to like regular therapy. Just without the part at the end where you feel better about your life.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the ancient practice of solitude and why does it matter?
0:04–7:27
2
How does John Mark invite listeners into a personal encounter with God?
7:27–11:48
3
What does the Geth‑semane story teach about giving feelings, desires, and trust to God?
11:48–18:45
4
Why is solitude a place of “subtraction” rather than addition?
18:45–39:01
5
What emotions and pains typically surface when we sit alone with God?
39:01–52:18