The Power of Prayer

What numbers are on speed dial on your phone? Likely it's the people you call most often, who are most important to you, standup family and friends whom you can count on to be your first line of defense in an emergency, because in a real emergency help can never come soon enough. You may have heard that now Amazon has made it even easier for us to get help (provided you already own an Alexa). You need only shout out and an operator will send emergency response personnel right away. But while it's smart to seek assistance in trouble, danger, weakness, and injury, James would argue that all human sources of help and healing are in fact one step removed from the ONLY ONE who gives success to any intervention: the Lord our God. Impossible as it seems, God's children can get ahold of him in prayer faster than Alexa--as fast as you can shout and cry, as fast as you can think--God has heard, he's there, he's answering and working according to his will.