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[1005.36 --> 1006.80] God listens.
[1006.80 --> 1008.32] He hears
[1008.32 --> 1010.68] and He responds.
[1012.24 --> 1013.80] So prayer is powerful
[1013.80 --> 1015.16] and it's effective
[1015.16 --> 1016.80] but not because
[1016.80 --> 1017.82] by it
[1017.82 --> 1019.56] you get to gain control
[1019.56 --> 1020.04] somehow
[1020.04 --> 1021.38] of your life again.
[1022.78 --> 1023.68] Prayer is effective
[1023.68 --> 1025.64] but not simply because
[1025.64 --> 1026.88] we get the outcome
[1026.88 --> 1027.64] we want.
[1029.26 --> 1029.68] Prayer
[1029.68 --> 1031.14] is about connecting
[1031.14 --> 1032.16] to God.
[1032.16 --> 1032.20] God.
[1033.90 --> 1034.66] And so we pray
[1034.66 --> 1035.90] not just so that
[1035.90 --> 1037.42] God can help us out
[1037.42 --> 1038.88] as if He is some kind
[1038.88 --> 1039.60] of magician
[1039.60 --> 1040.58] for us.
[1041.56 --> 1042.78] James warns against that.
[1042.86 --> 1044.28] He says in chapter 4,
[1044.38 --> 1044.64] he says,
[1044.76 --> 1045.70] when you ask,
[1045.80 --> 1046.34] verse 3,
[1046.72 --> 1047.56] when you ask,
[1047.70 --> 1048.60] you don't receive
[1048.60 --> 1049.68] because you ask
[1049.68 --> 1050.52] with wrong motives
[1050.52 --> 1051.70] that you may spend
[1051.70 --> 1052.34] what you get
[1052.34 --> 1053.18] on your pleasures.
[1054.34 --> 1055.38] We're used to that,
[1055.44 --> 1055.72] aren't we?
[1056.76 --> 1057.86] We certainly live
[1057.86 --> 1058.90] in that kind of a culture
[1058.90 --> 1060.50] where we're used
[1060.50 --> 1061.74] to just being able
[1061.74 --> 1062.64] to go out
[1062.64 --> 1063.88] and do our thing
[1063.88 --> 1065.46] because we feel like it.
[1067.26 --> 1068.36] And that's what makes
[1068.36 --> 1069.24] living in this COVID
[1069.24 --> 1070.52] pandemic so hard
[1070.52 --> 1073.30] is we have to get used
[1073.30 --> 1074.14] to living a different
[1074.14 --> 1075.02] kind of life
[1075.02 --> 1076.92] and then
[1076.92 --> 1079.06] and then our connection
[1079.06 --> 1079.80] to God
[1079.80 --> 1081.00] rooted
[1081.00 --> 1082.82] in learning
[1082.82 --> 1083.88] to be connected
[1083.88 --> 1085.12] in the context
[1085.12 --> 1085.90] of prayer
[1085.90 --> 1087.72] is crucial.
[1088.90 --> 1091.48] prayer draws us
[1091.48 --> 1092.32] into the presence
[1092.32 --> 1093.12] of God
[1093.12 --> 1095.50] and that's not
[1095.50 --> 1096.66] to be taken for granted.
[1097.58 --> 1098.42] Oh, sure, I pray.
[1099.16 --> 1100.34] Oh, yeah, we said a prayer.
[1101.26 --> 1102.20] It's not to be taken
[1102.20 --> 1102.84] for granted.
[1103.60 --> 1104.88] It's amazing
[1104.88 --> 1106.78] that in prayer
[1106.78 --> 1107.90] we are connected
[1107.90 --> 1109.20] to the God
[1109.20 --> 1110.24] of the universe,
[1110.48 --> 1111.98] the God who made you,
[1112.10 --> 1113.00] the God who made
[1113.00 --> 1114.74] everything that there is
[1114.74 --> 1116.18] and when you utter
[1116.18 --> 1117.26] words to Him,
[1117.26 --> 1119.44] that God
[1119.44 --> 1120.84] listens.
[1123.68 --> 1125.52] He listens so intimately
[1125.52 --> 1126.48] that you can be
[1126.48 --> 1127.72] absolutely honest
[1127.72 --> 1128.32] with God
[1128.32 --> 1129.40] and so James says
[1129.40 --> 1130.18] when you pray
[1130.18 --> 1133.30] then confess your sins
[1133.30 --> 1134.08] and then I wish
[1134.08 --> 1134.74] he had added
[1134.74 --> 1135.90] and confess them
[1135.90 --> 1137.10] quietly before God
[1137.10 --> 1137.72] but he says
[1137.72 --> 1138.92] confess them
[1138.92 --> 1140.04] before one another.
[1140.04 --> 1143.42] When we gather
[1143.42 --> 1143.94] for worship
[1143.94 --> 1145.08] we have a time
[1145.08 --> 1145.84] of confession
[1145.84 --> 1147.66] and we kind of