# Going Deep Into the Depths of Prayer, and Q&A

An episode of [Bible Answer Man Podcast with Hank Hanegraaff](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/569236334), 5 Jun 2026, 28 min.

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On today’s Bible Answer Man broadcast (06/05/26), Hank shares on the way we often snorkel in the shallow depths of prayer and only get sunburnt backs, but rarely we go deep into the depths of prayer. Hank also answers the following questions: What is your take on the Calvinist interpretation of predestination? Jordan - Edwardsville, IL (6:59) Are we required to pay tithes under the New Covenant? Samuel - Bronx, NY (9:54) Do Jewish people believe in the Trinity? Salvador - Charlotte, NC (15:57) What is the iron furnace in 1 Kings 8:51? Margo - Claremore, OK (23:46)

## Transcript

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[0:50] Speaker 1: and now here's your host, Hank Anagraph.
[0:53] Speaker 2: Thanks ver much for INDI. I don't want to open
[0:55] Speaker 2: today's broadcast before we go to work callers with a
[0:58] Speaker 2: couple of comments about first of all, most of us,
[1:04] Speaker 2: and I think we'll all acknowledge this to one extent
[1:07] Speaker 2: or another, snorkel in the surface waters of prayer, and
[1:13] Speaker 2: as such we succeed only in sunburning our backs. We
[1:19] Speaker 2: so often fail to comprehend that deep is where the
[1:24] Speaker 2: trashy surface of the ocean gets quiet and serene. It's
[1:31] Speaker 2: where our noisy requests give way to a quiet relationship
[1:38] Speaker 2: with our maker. Deep is where we step out of
[1:42] Speaker 2: the shallow tidepool of our hearts into the boundless ocean
[1:48] Speaker 2: of God's power, of his presence. It's where we get
[1:55] Speaker 2: beyond surface things, where we plunge into a deep relationship
[2:02] Speaker 2: with our creator. Going deep with God begins with a
[2:10] Speaker 2: major paradigm shift in our perception of prayer. Rather than
[2:18] Speaker 2: always looking for a new technique through which we can
[2:23] Speaker 2: get God to answer our prayers, we must ever be
[2:28] Speaker 2: mindful that prayer is an opportunity for developing intimacy with
[2:35] Speaker 2: the very one who knit us together in our mother's womb.
[2:41] Speaker 2: If you and I are honest with ourselves, most of
[2:46] Speaker 2: us have learned to pray backwards. We hurry into God's
[2:51] Speaker 2: presence with a laundry list, and before our knees have
[2:56] Speaker 2: ever touched the ground, we are already thinking about getting
[2:59] Speaker 2: back to our frenzied lifestyles. As a result, we so
[3:07] Speaker 2: often treat our heavenly Father no better than we treat
[3:11] Speaker 2: our families. We want relationship, but without the discipline of
[3:16] Speaker 2: investing quality time. The Bible never encourages us to stamp
[3:21] Speaker 2: out the self like the Buddhists do it does, however,
[3:27] Speaker 2: exhort us to stamp out the selfishness. Genuine prayer is
[3:34] Speaker 2: not found in our noisy askings and gettings. It's found
[3:42] Speaker 2: in a growing relationship with the lover of our souls.
[3:48] Speaker 2: I want to close with a question and then go
[3:51] Speaker 2: to our callers. Do you have a secret place? Do
[4:00] Speaker 2: you have a place where you can drown out the
[4:03] Speaker 2: static of the world and hear the voice of your
[4:07] Speaker 2: heavenly father. We desperately need a place away from the
[4:14] Speaker 2: invasive sounds of the world, so that we can hear
[4:19] Speaker 2: the sounds of another place, the sound, more specifically, of
[4:25] Speaker 2: another voice. Do you hear it? Well, you will if
[4:31] Speaker 2: you yearn to hear it with all your heart. Remember
[4:37] Speaker 2: the hymn. I come to the garden alone he speaks,
[4:46] Speaker 2: and the sound of his voice is so sweet that
[4:50] Speaker 2: the birds hush their singing. And the melody that he
[4:55] Speaker 2: gave to me within my heart is ringing. Walks with me,
[5:02] Speaker 2: and he talks with me, and he tells me that
[5:05] Speaker 2: I am his own. And the joy we share as
[5:10] Speaker 2: we tarry there none other has ever known. Jesus closed
[5:17] Speaker 2: his majestic sermon on the Mount by reminding his audience
[5:21] Speaker 2: that wisdom is the application of knowledge. We can talk
[5:27] Speaker 2: about prayer, we can write about prayer, we can promote prayer.
[5:34] Speaker 2: We can even have a nationally selected day of prayer.
[5:39] Speaker 2: The question is, will you resolve today to make evermore
[5:46] Speaker 2: prayer a part of your every day, not only a part,
[5:55] Speaker 2: but the priority of every day. I wrote a book
[5:59] Speaker 2: about this. It's titled The Prayer of Jesus, the subtitle
[6:04] Speaker 2: Secrets to Real Intimacy with God. Ever, think about the
[6:09] Speaker 2: fact that meditating on the word of God is the
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[6:16] Speaker 2: prayer life, the two inextricably bound together. Well, I give
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[6:59] Speaker 2: go to the phone lines. First up today Jordan listening
[7:04] Speaker 2: to Edwardsville, Illinois. Hi, Jordan, Hi, how are you good?
[7:08] Speaker 2: How are you?
[7:09] Speaker 3: I'm doing very well.
[7:10] Speaker 4: Thank you so much for taking my.
[7:11] Speaker 2: Call, my pleasure.
[7:13] Speaker 4: I just wanted to know a little bit about your
[7:15] Speaker 4: take on the Calvinist view of predestination and God choosing
[7:20] Speaker 4: those that will be with him.
[7:22] Speaker 2: Well, you know, the Calvinist paradigm has within it a
[7:27] Speaker 2: notion of what's called circumstantial or compatibilistic freedom. In other words,
[7:35] Speaker 2: you're made in such a way that you must, of
[7:38] Speaker 2: necessity act in accordance with your nature. So God is
[7:43] Speaker 2: sovereign and you are free to do what you have
[7:46] Speaker 2: been wired to do. If you are a cow, you
[7:52] Speaker 2: can't fly. If you don't have ears, you can't hear,
[7:56] Speaker 2: you can't respond to the gospel. In that sense, the
[7:59] Speaker 2: Calvinist paradig says, regeneration precedes faith, so God only regenerates
[8:07] Speaker 2: those who are the elect, and therefore only the elect
[8:10] Speaker 2: can have the ears to hear or respond to the Gospel.
[8:15] Speaker 2: All else is such that they are created in a
[8:21] Speaker 2: way that they can't respond to the Gospel. And that
[8:26] Speaker 2: is why Calvin taught that the apostle Paul taught that
[8:31] Speaker 2: the ruin of the wicked is not only foreseen by
[8:34] Speaker 2: the Lord, but also ordained by his counsel and by
[8:38] Speaker 2: his will. Not only the destruction of the wicked, said Calvin,
[8:43] Speaker 2: not only is that foreknown, but that the wicked themselves
[8:47] Speaker 2: have been created for that very end, that they may perish.
[8:53] Speaker 2: So the notion within Calvinism is that some are predestined
[8:59] Speaker 2: to resurrection, to a relationship with the Lord, and some are,
[9:06] Speaker 2: before the foundations of the world, predestined to be those
[9:10] Speaker 2: who cannot hear, and thus they'll spend an eternity apart
[9:14] Speaker 2: from the Lord. That is again a paradigm that is
[9:18] Speaker 2: acceptable within the pale of Orthodoxy, but certainly not all
[9:22] Speaker 2: Christians hold to it. There are Calvinists and there are
[9:24] Speaker 2: non Calvinists. And in fact, I've mentioned this on the
[9:27] Speaker 2: era number of times. We did a debate in the
[9:31] Speaker 2: Christian Research Journal in such a way that you can
[9:34] Speaker 2: see the Calvinist paradigm in comparison to a non Calvinist paradigm,
[9:40] Speaker 2: and then both tested in lightest scripture so you can
[9:43] Speaker 2: hold fast to that which is good. I think the
[9:45] Speaker 2: article is very helpful in that regard.
[9:48] Speaker 4: Okay, great, I'll definitely look that up when I get home.
[9:50] Speaker 4: Thank you so much, Hank, you ket it.
[9:51] Speaker 2: Thank you so much for your call. Back to the
[9:54] Speaker 2: phone lines. We'll talk to Samuel and Bronx New York. Hi.
[9:58] Speaker 3: Samuel, all right, Hank, and I don't thank you for
[10:01] Speaker 3: taking my call pleasure. My question is are we.
[10:05] Speaker 5: Required to pay tithes under the New Covenant as they
[10:09] Speaker 5: were doing in the Old Covenant.
[10:13] Speaker 2: Well, remember that tithing is well said to be the
[10:18] Speaker 2: training wheels of giving, and what we are instructed to
[10:21] Speaker 2: do in the New Testament is to hold everything that
[10:23] Speaker 2: we have with an open hand, so that God can
[10:26] Speaker 2: take out and put in as he sees fit. In
[10:30] Speaker 2: the New Testament, the emphasis is so strongly on stewardship.
[10:34] Speaker 2: But tithing, I think is important because it becomes a
[10:38] Speaker 2: training mechanism towards the liberty of free will giving, and
[10:44] Speaker 2: free will giving becomes a manner, a mode, a method
[10:49] Speaker 2: through which we can transform the world. So we don't
[10:53] Speaker 2: give to get, but we give because we want desperately
[10:57] Speaker 2: to extend the kingdom of God, not by mine nor
[11:00] Speaker 2: by power, but by His Spirit. I've written about this
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[16:01] Speaker 2: High Salvador, Oh.
[16:03] Speaker 3: Doing great, Hanky, How are you sir?
[16:04] Speaker 2: Fine? Thank you good.
[16:06] Speaker 3: Appreciate all that you do with your questions. And the
[16:11] Speaker 3: question I had was what or do the Jews believe
[16:15] Speaker 3: in the Trinity or what are their thoughts on the Trinity,
[16:18] Speaker 3: You know that sort of thing. Any insight as to
[16:20] Speaker 3: what the Jews believes.
[16:22] Speaker 2: Well, Jewish people are by and large fiercely monotheistic. But
[16:28] Speaker 2: when we talk about the Jewish tradition, there's not just one.
[16:33] Speaker 2: There's Orthodox Judaism or Torah Judaism, which is known for
[16:38] Speaker 2: strict dedication to the Mosaic law, and then you have
[16:43] Speaker 2: Orthodox Judaism, which teaches that observance of the law leads
[16:50] Speaker 2: to freedom. They begin with this notion that the freedom
[16:55] Speaker 2: to decide what law to observe is what is important,
[16:59] Speaker 2: and therefore human autonomy trumps the authority of the law.
[17:05] Speaker 2: Conservative judaism is a late nineteenth century reaction to the
[17:11] Speaker 2: liberal tendencies of reform judaism. So it's a middle way
[17:16] Speaker 2: as such between the Orthodox and the reform. My point
[17:20] Speaker 2: here is simply to say that they don't all believe
[17:24] Speaker 2: the same thing, but none of them would hold to
[17:27] Speaker 2: one God revealed in three persons who are eternally distinct.
[17:33] Speaker 2: Unless you are talking about Messianic judaism, which acknowledges the Trinity.
[17:41] Speaker 3: What about Moses and the ones in the Old Testament,
[17:44] Speaker 3: what would your belief from the Trinity?
[17:46] Speaker 2: Well, in the Old Testament you have a shadow. In
[17:51] Speaker 2: the New Testament you have a substance. So in the
[17:55] Speaker 2: Old Testament you read about Jesus Christ. You read about
[18:02] Speaker 2: the Spirit, you read about the Father, but typically you
[18:07] Speaker 2: read about it in a metaphorical way. For example, the
[18:12] Speaker 2: Angel of the Lord is a metaphor for an appearance
[18:17] Speaker 2: of Jesus Christ. The Angel of the Lord appears and
[18:21] Speaker 2: acts in human history. So this is a pre incarnate
[18:26] Speaker 2: appearance in many cases of Jesus Christ as a christophany
[18:31] Speaker 2: or Jesus Christ acting in human history. In the Old
[18:35] Speaker 2: Testament context, you have David talking about restoring the joy
[18:41] Speaker 2: of my salvation and grant a willing spirit to sustain me.
[18:47] Speaker 2: You have the spirit of God that dwelt in Joshua
[18:51] Speaker 2: and in Moses. You have the Father, a course pre
[18:56] Speaker 2: eminent and predominant throughout the structure of the Old Testament
[18:59] Speaker 2: canon is well, so you have within the Old Testament Father, Son,
[19:05] Speaker 2: and Holy Spirit, and you have the Triune God revealed
[19:11] Speaker 2: in the Old Testament, but oftentimes in much more of
[19:16] Speaker 2: a veiled way we see it with the magnifying glass
[19:20] Speaker 2: of the New Testament.
[19:21] Speaker 3: Clearly, Yeah, that's what you definitely say. It's definitely a
[19:28] Speaker 3: lot more difficult to see the Trinity and the Old Testament.
[19:32] Speaker 2: Well, it's more difficult to see the Cross, I mean
[19:34] Speaker 2: the cross. The sacrifice was given to us through temple
[19:39] Speaker 2: priest and sacrifice, originally through tabernacle than temple priest and sacrifice.
[19:45] Speaker 2: So we have within the Old Testament types in shadows.
[19:50] Speaker 2: The substance appears in the New. So Abraham looked forward
[19:55] Speaker 2: to Christ through pictures, through types, through shadows. He was
[20:00] Speaker 2: saved in the same way by the cross, but he
[20:02] Speaker 2: looked forward to them through these pictures, these analogies, these types,
[20:07] Speaker 2: these shadows. The antetype is revealed in the New. We
[20:11] Speaker 2: see with far more clarity on this side of the cross,
[20:14] Speaker 2: because the sacrifice has already come. But they saw through
[20:19] Speaker 2: the things which looked forward, did Jesus Christ like we
[20:24] Speaker 2: look back at the coming and the person work of
[20:27] Speaker 2: Jesus Christ.
[20:29] Speaker 3: Yeah, no, And I do think I do think it
[20:32] Speaker 3: if the seeing the cross or seeing you know, the
[20:35] Speaker 3: sacrifice of some sort of blood sacrifice that is gonna.
[20:39] Speaker 3: I think the types that and shadows and that are
[20:42] Speaker 3: you know, there seems to be clarity on those, you know,
[20:46] Speaker 3: I can really I can envision it, you know pretty well,
[20:50] Speaker 3: if you going through the Red Sea or you know,
[20:53] Speaker 3: the sacrifices that they did, like you said in the
[20:56] Speaker 3: temple where there had to be a blood sacrifice. You know,
[20:59] Speaker 3: it makes fans that there had to be some sort
[21:01] Speaker 3: of Messiah that would come. I just have a harder
[21:05] Speaker 3: time seeing the Trinity in the Old Testament.
[21:10] Speaker 2: Well, you see the Angel of the Lord, as I
[21:12] Speaker 2: pointed out, you see the Holy Spirit, who is communicated
[21:16] Speaker 2: over and over again throughout the Old Testament, and you
[21:19] Speaker 2: see the Father. So certainly, in the Old Testament you
[21:23] Speaker 2: have a very clear picture of one God revealed in
[21:28] Speaker 2: three persons who are eternally distinct. Again, as I mentioned,
[21:32] Speaker 2: it is not in the same clarity as we see
[21:35] Speaker 2: it in the New Testament, but it is not as
[21:37] Speaker 2: though it is obscure. As far as the Spirit is concerned.
[21:40] Speaker 2: We read in Numbers twenty seven the Spirit dwelt in Joshua.
[21:45] Speaker 2: We have in Isaiah chapter sixty three. God put his
[21:49] Speaker 2: Holy Spirit within Moses. The Holy Spirit is a personal presence,
[21:56] Speaker 2: has and always will be in the midst of God's people.
[22:01] Speaker 2: So when Jesus talked about the coming of the Holy
[22:03] Speaker 2: Spirit at Pentecost, he was not implying that the Holy
[22:06] Speaker 2: Spirit was not already there, but that the Holy Spirit
[22:11] Speaker 2: was to come in the sense of empowering or infilling.
[22:16] Speaker 2: So it's all right to say that the Holy Spirit
[22:18] Speaker 2: came from Heaven at Pentecost, but not in the sense
[22:23] Speaker 2: of location, rather in the sense of a special manifestation
[22:28] Speaker 2: of his presence and of his power.
[22:31] Speaker 3: Yeah. Usually when it talks about the Spirit, it talks
[22:34] Speaker 3: about like like. For instance, when it says the Spirit
[22:36] Speaker 3: of the Lord moved on the waters, it usually seems
[22:39] Speaker 3: like it's referring to actions, like actionable effects like Genesis. Whenever,
[22:45] Speaker 3: during the Creation, when the boblel says the Spirit of
[22:47] Speaker 3: the Lord moved in the waters, of the Spirit moved
[22:49] Speaker 3: on certain things, it's definitely like you say, it's some
[22:53] Speaker 3: sort of it seems to be some sort of I'm
[22:57] Speaker 3: trying to think of a word.
[22:59] Speaker 2: Well, it's a self distinction within the Godhead. So it
[23:03] Speaker 2: is a personal we shouldn't even use the word it
[23:06] Speaker 2: a personal self distinction. An ego is center of consciousness.
[23:11] Speaker 2: So the best way of talking about the Trinity is
[23:14] Speaker 2: to say that we as Christians hold to one what
[23:18] Speaker 2: there we're talking about the essence or nature of God
[23:21] Speaker 2: in three Who's I'll have to leave it at that.
[23:23] Speaker 2: As far as an entry on Judaism. I have one
[23:26] Speaker 2: in my Complete Bible answer Book Collector's Edition. I think
[23:31] Speaker 2: so often we broadbrush all of Judaism as though it
[23:35] Speaker 2: is the same. It clearly is not. Our three main branches, Conservative,
[23:40] Speaker 2: Reform and Orthodox, and of course, as I mentioned, Messianic
[23:44] Speaker 2: Judaism as well. When I go back to the phone lines,
[23:47] Speaker 2: doctor Margo listening in Claremore, Oklahoma. Hi, Margo, how are
[23:54] Speaker 2: you good? How are you?
[23:55] Speaker 4: I am wonderful. My husband and I are reading the
[23:59] Speaker 4: Bible through the year, and yesterday morning we were in
[24:03] Speaker 4: First King, chapter eight, verse fifty one mentions coming out
[24:10] Speaker 4: of an iron furnace. What is the iron furnace?
[24:15] Speaker 2: Yeah? This is a good example of reading scripture and
[24:18] Speaker 2: light of scripture. And I'm so happy that you're reading
[24:20] Speaker 2: through the Bible, because you will encounter this metaphor many
[24:25] Speaker 2: times throughout the Biblical text. You'll not only encounter it
[24:30] Speaker 2: in Kings, but you'll encounter it in Jeremiah, and you'll
[24:34] Speaker 2: encounter it in Isaiah. For Israel, their experience in Egypt
[24:38] Speaker 2: was an iron smelting furnace. In other words, it was
[24:43] Speaker 2: a severe time of affliction. Have you ever been in
[24:48] Speaker 2: the melting pot? My friend said, Spurgeon, I have been
[24:51] Speaker 2: there and my sermons with me, and it is in
[24:54] Speaker 2: the melting pot, in the furnace, as it were, that
[24:57] Speaker 2: we arrive at a true valuation of the By the way,
[25:01] Speaker 2: Judah later suffered in the furnace of affliction in the
[25:06] Speaker 2: Babylonian captivity. So this metaphor is a common metaphor that
[25:12] Speaker 2: always points to the same thing. It points to affliction.
[25:19] Speaker 4: All right, well, thank you so much. It was It's
[25:23] Speaker 4: been very interesting and I'm loving every minute of it.
[25:26] Speaker 4: We read morning to night.
[25:28] Speaker 2: And it's a good thing. Well, Margo, I think you've
[25:32] Speaker 2: been an encouragement to people listening in. Perhaps someone listening
[25:36] Speaker 2: in will say, you know what, as a result of
[25:38] Speaker 2: Margo's example, I'm going to start doing the same thing,
[25:41] Speaker 2: and that is reading through the Word of God. Of course,
[25:45] Speaker 2: we have Bibles in every color, shape, and size. We
[25:48] Speaker 2: can go to church color coordinator with our bibles. But unfortunately,
[25:53] Speaker 2: we in the twenty first century are standing in the
[25:55] Speaker 2: shadow of the Bible as opposed to standing in the
[25:59] Speaker 2: center of the Bible. We are biblically illiterate, and therefore
[26:04] Speaker 2: we continuously fall for the counterfeits that so often loom
[26:09] Speaker 2: on the horizon. We're out of time for this stition
[26:12] Speaker 2: of the Bible Lanceman Broadcast. Look forward to see you
[26:14] Speaker 2: next time right here with more of the show.
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