Today James suggests an approach to prayer that can help you do it more often, and also pray in strategic and practical ways. It just takes a little preparation, like putting together a playlist. But once you start to learn it you’ll find out how powerful it is.

In Psalm 13 David prays, “How long, Lord? Will you forget me forever?” It’s a great prayer to talk about because the fact that you see it in Scripture shows us something really important, that we CAN pray like this.  God never corrects or disciplines anyone for praying like this, not at all. Prayers like this are included in His Word to show us that we can talk about anything with Him, even our disappointments.

There’s a phrase that you see in both Ezra and Nehemiah, and it’s hard to miss because it’s in several places. Ezra 7:6, 7:9, 7:28, 8:18, 8:31 Nehemiah 2:8, I’m sure there are probably more references, but that’s just a quick reading, and all talk about “the gracious hand of God being on someone,” and as you read it, you can’t help feeling, “I want that in my life!”

James and Robby talk about learning how to pray well with other people like friends and family.

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Today we have something for you that is so helpful and can make such a difference in the way you pray, but you’re going to have to listen very carefully because it’s so simple you can miss it, but so powerful that you won’t want to.

Today we’re talking about something that can really help you pray. We’re going to look at what it means to talk something out with God.

How do you end the day with God? Is there a special prayer that you say, or something unique that you do? Or do you just lie down and rest in Him and go to sleep?

Dr. James and Robby revel in the joy the Jesus has given us the REAL independance with prayer.

So today we’re talking about starting the day with God in prayer, and why we really want to do this. There’s a lot more to this than we sometimes think. Sometimes I think we can dismiss it too quickly because sometimes talking about this can sound, legalistic. Like a bunch of rule we have follow if we’re going to be right with God. But that’s not where we’re going today. Today, it’s like we’re going fishing.