Prayer Power

Why is prayer important?

God’s Response

Keep on asking, and you will be given what you ask for. Keep on looking, and you will find. Keep on knocking, and the door will be opened. For everyone who asks, receives. Everyone who seeks, finds. And the door is opened to everyone who knocks. You parents —if your children ask for a loaf of bread, do you give them a stone instead? Or if they ask for a fish, do you give them a snake? Of course not! If you sinful people know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give good gifts to those who ask him. Matthew 7:7-11

God often works more in your own heart through the act of prayer than he does in actually answering your prayer. Your prayers are often self-centered, and God changes your heart to be more other-centered. As you persist in asking, seeking, and knocking, you often gain greater understanding of yourself, your situation, your motivation, and God’s nature and direction for your life.

God’s Promise

The earnest prayer of a righteous person has great power and wonderful results. James 5:16