YOU CAN TRUST IN THE POWER OF PRAYER

James 5:16

Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.

Does prayer really make a difference? If God knows everything that’s going to happen, why pray? Can we really change God’s mind?

We might be tempted to live as though everything happens by chance, and we must sit back and watch it all unfold. We have no control, so why try to do anything?

We know that God knows everything, that all our days are in his book and the hairs of our head are numbered. But it’s important to remember that while we don’t know everything, our lives on this earth are a continuous quest of getting to know God better. He knows everything. So we talk to him, asking for guidance and help or protection.

Does prayer change anything? Perhaps a better question is how does prayer change us? The Bible promises that our earnest prayers have great power and wonderful results. Prayer changes things—but most of all, it changes us. 

GOD’S PROMISE TO ME:

• Your prayers can have great power and wonderful results.

MY PRAYER TO GOD:

Heavenly Father, you say that the earnest prayer of a righteous person has great power. I realize this doesn’t mean you answer every prayer with an unequivocal yes. I want to experience that power today. I trust that you hear my prayers and that you will answer. Amen.