Prayer: What Is It?
“You hear a lot of talk about prayer. Everybody kinda has this vague idea that, ‘Well, we’re supposed to pray,’ but there’s not really a lot of good teaching on prayer. What is it? What’s it mean? We’re going to look at that just a little bit today. But I want to tell you that prayer is a very important vital part of who we’re called to be.”
An Examination of Prayer and the Study of an Interesting Man
“The effective prayer of a righteous man can accomplish much. Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the earth for three years and six months. Then he prayed again, and the sky poured rain and the earth produced its fruit.” James 5:16–18 (HCSB)
“I like that phrase too [Elijah was a man with a nature like ours], because we think about some of the heroes of the old Testament, and we want to put them up on a pedestal, we want to put them up into some place of, y’know, Heroes of the Bible. Was he a hero of the Bible? Yes, but don’t ever think for one minute that he was not just as human as you or I.”
In this video, JoAnn shares the truth of how prayer can transform a person’s life through faith in Christ.