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Speaker: Pastor Val Watkins
Scripture Text: James 5:13-18, I Kings 18:41-45
Prayer That Works
Pray with Expectancy
James 5:13-18, I Kings 18:41-45
And I think that if we actually believed what we said we believed about prayer, we would be doing a whole lot more of it.
In James 4:2, he says that one of the reasons we don’t receive what we desire is we don’t pray.
It is common for many of us to feel we don’t know how to pray or what to say–and James understood that so he gave us an example of how we can pray.
Then Elijah, after pouring water all over his sacrifice, prays a very simple prayer:
FIRST, Prayer that works takes work!
SECOND, prayer that works takes persistence.
Because when we work at our prayers–it shows the answer “matters” to us.
THIRD, Prayer that works takes risks.
Her petite frame held power, simply because she was intimately connected with and invested in God’s name.
FOURTH, Prayer that works takes understanding God’s will.
It is asking for those things that will honor Him. That are in accordance with his will.
FIFTH, Prayer that works takes righteousness with God.
The only thing that made Elijah anything is the same thing that we have access to: God’s imputed righteousness.
