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[837.22 --> 838.56] so that you may be healed.
[839.18 --> 841.08] The prayer of a righteous person
[841.08 --> 842.34] is powerful
[842.34 --> 843.58] and effective.
[846.28 --> 847.42] It's in fact
[847.42 --> 849.42] the way that Jesus taught us
[849.42 --> 850.14] to pray.
[850.90 --> 851.42] Ask
[851.42 --> 853.42] and you will receive.
[855.72 --> 857.12] The thing is,
[857.12 --> 860.68] we've been taught to pray
[860.68 --> 862.42] by the likes of
[862.42 --> 863.74] Sir Isaac Newton
[863.74 --> 865.84] and company of scientists
[865.84 --> 867.92] who have firmly established us
[867.92 --> 869.68] in the scientific method.
[869.68 --> 871.02] The scientific method
[871.02 --> 872.14] can be summarized
[872.14 --> 872.92] in this way,
[873.00 --> 873.48] I suppose.
[875.38 --> 876.64] The scientific method
[876.64 --> 878.26] is a faith commitment
[878.26 --> 879.26] that assumes
[879.26 --> 883.02] that only real things
[883.02 --> 884.46] can be proven.
[884.46 --> 887.00] And that which is proven
[887.00 --> 888.78] is only that
[888.78 --> 889.80] which is seen.
[890.02 --> 891.06] And only that
[891.06 --> 892.14] which is seen
[892.14 --> 894.18] is what is real.
[894.18 --> 898.66] And that ends up
[898.66 --> 900.00] being a closed universe.
[900.54 --> 902.70] A pretty tightly packed
[902.70 --> 903.60] in universe
[903.60 --> 904.76] that says
[904.76 --> 906.68] this is all
[906.68 --> 907.78] that there is.
[909.72 --> 910.96] And then it's
[910.96 --> 912.44] a struggle for us
[912.44 --> 913.10] to pray
[913.10 --> 914.86] in that kind
[914.86 --> 916.02] of closed universe.
[917.72 --> 918.08] And so,
[918.30 --> 918.76] I admit,
[918.96 --> 920.10] and perhaps you struggle
[920.10 --> 921.14] with the same thing,
[921.14 --> 923.42] to think that
[923.42 --> 924.66] prayer actually
[924.66 --> 925.52] is effective
[925.52 --> 927.36] because what can words
[927.36 --> 928.18] do against
[928.18 --> 929.58] the laws of nature
[929.58 --> 930.90] which are otherwise
[930.90 --> 932.50] perfectly explainable?
[934.50 --> 936.04] We struggle with thinking
[936.04 --> 937.44] that prayer is no use
[937.44 --> 938.72] or that wondering
[938.72 --> 940.88] if prayer really works.
[942.10 --> 943.92] But James reminds us here
[943.92 --> 946.00] that prayer is real
[946.00 --> 947.32] in the asking.
[948.64 --> 950.32] Here's what he says,
[950.32 --> 951.10] at the beginning
[951.10 --> 951.76] of his letter
[951.76 --> 953.10] he starts out with
[953.10 --> 954.54] in chapter 1
[954.54 --> 954.92] he says,
[955.08 --> 955.94] if you lack wisdom
[955.94 --> 957.18] ask God.
[957.90 --> 958.60] Ask God
[958.60 --> 959.60] and He'll give it to you.
[960.54 --> 961.50] In chapter 4
[961.50 --> 962.04] he says,
[962.42 --> 962.64] look,
[962.98 --> 963.46] you guys,
[963.86 --> 964.68] you ask
[964.68 --> 967.10] and you don't receive
[967.10 --> 968.04] because you don't
[968.04 --> 969.98] or you don't have
[969.98 --> 971.68] because you don't ask God.
[973.24 --> 974.88] As if James is recalling
[974.88 --> 976.00] Jesus' own words
[976.00 --> 977.38] which is quite likely,
[978.12 --> 978.64] ask
[978.64 --> 980.60] and you will receive.
[982.46 --> 983.24] In other words,
[983.86 --> 984.60] what James is trying
[984.60 --> 985.18] to get across
[985.18 --> 986.58] is that the realness
[986.58 --> 987.44] of prayer,
[988.30 --> 989.56] effectiveness of prayer
[989.56 --> 990.58] is not that you'll get
[990.58 --> 991.40] what you want
[991.40 --> 992.36] when you utter
[992.36 --> 993.42] something up to God.
[993.42 --> 996.20] But that when we pray,
[997.04 --> 999.16] God really listens.
[1000.50 --> 1002.72] That's the reality of prayer.
[1003.48 --> 1004.86] That when we pray,