It’s tragic how easily we can miss the main ingredient in effective prayer.
In our sin, we’ve been rewired to focus on us — on the steps we
should take for our prayers to be heard. We have this bent toward
believing that every result is born from method. If something works for
somebody we want to know what that somebody is doing.
We’ve developed the assumption that if we can just strip it all down
to a reproducible process to put into action, then the results will
multiply. While this applies to certain things, it doesn’t apply to
prayer — or at least that’s not the vision the apostle James gives us.
The main ingredient in effective prayer is emphatically not us.
Often Misunderstood
Many of us find James 5:16
to be a familiar verse: “The prayer of a righteous person has great
power as it is working” — which is also translated, as an ESV footnote
spells out, “The effective prayer of a righteous person has great
power.” Continue at Jonathan Parnell
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