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Listen, it's true that prayer changes things.

It's also true that prayer changes you, and sometimes prayer changes you, and you change things.

Prayer brings heaven's power to earth. And today on a new beginning, from the book of Niamaya,

Pastor Greg Laurie has insights on the transformative power of prayer.

God changed Niamaya, and Niamaya changed things.

If you want God to answer your prayer, you have to be willing to be a part of the answer.

This is the day when the lost are found. This is the day for a moment, again. Amazing grace, sounds we can't know.

But can you hear the holy angels, I see them? This is the day when I'm free again.

A modern combustion engine does one thing. It moves a piston.

But the piston is connected to a crankshaft and the crankshaft to a transmission.

And the knee bone is connected to the leg bone and pretty soon your car is moving.

Well, today on the new beginning, Pastor Greg Laurie points out that prayer moves things.

And today we'll see we may be the prayer or we may be the thing that gets moved.

But wherever we fit, let's see today how we can put our efforts in gear for the Lord.

This is the day when life begins.

Houston, we have a problem. Those are the words from Apollo 13.

By the way, that phrase Houston, we have a problem with the most famous words

uttered in the history of space travel. Five words could have been Nasa's worst disaster ever.

And of course, it was Apollo 13. Five, six of the way on their journey to the moon.

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