posted Feb 8, 2016, 11:01 AM by Grant Garber
- Prayer (Asking) Is an Act of Humility (v. 5)
Problem: Pride
- Prayer is an act of humility that causes us to come to grips with the fact that we are deficient.
- Growing up in Christ doesn’t mean becoming more and more independent of Christ!
- The difference between pride and humility is really the difference between prayerlessness and prayerfulness.
- Prayer (Asking) Is an Act of Faith (vv. 6-8)
Problem: The Divided Person
- Our sin makes us double-minded and therefore unstable.
- Prayer is not a way to control God – like putting money into a vending machine when we are hungry for a specific thing.
- Is there a driving passion that accounts for the direction of our life? James says there are only two possibilities: God or the world.
- Prayer (Asking) Is an Act of Knowing the True God (v. 5)
Solution: The Need to See God’s All-Sufficiency and His Undivided Heart for Us
- You cannot separate praying rightly from rightly knowing the One to whom we pray.
- God gives with a singular heart toward His people.
- God doesn’t pick apart our lives and treat us as our sins deserve.
- God’s perfect, pure, full Fatherly heart of love is our greatest incentive to pray.
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