The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. James wrote that sentence, and then, so that no one could dodge it, he pointed at Elijah and added, a man subject to like passions as we are. Not a different species of man. A man like you. Scripture is not shy about this claim: it records, again and again, specific prayers followed by specific, datable, verifiable answers. A childless woman prays at Shiloh and a prophet is born. A young king asks for wisdom and becomes a proverb among the nations. An old man in Babylon fasts over a scroll of Jeremiah and an angel is dispatched...
The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. James wrote that sentence, and then, so that no one could dodge it, he pointed at Elijah and added, a man subject to like passions as we are. Not a different species of man. A man like you. Scripture is not shy about this claim: it records, again and again, specific prayers followed by specific, datable, verifiable answers. A childless woman prays at Shiloh and a prophet is born. A young king asks for wisdom and becomes a proverb among the nations. An old man in Babylon fasts over a scroll of Jeremiah and an angel is dispatched while the words are still in his mouth. These are not vague feelings of peace. These are interventions. This lesson gathers the ten most consequential prayers in the Word, from Jabez's four line cry in a genealogy to Yahshua's long intercession on the night He was betrayed, and it studies each one the...