today on Summit Life with Jiddy Greer.

Prayerlessness at its root is the result of failing to grasp how much God loves you,

how tender he is towards you and how much he wants to hear from you.

Many of you think prayer is the way to get close to God.

No, prayer is the result of knowing how close God has made himself to you.

Welcome back to Summit Life with Pastor J.D. Greer. I'm your host, Molly Vitovich.

Today on the program, Pastor J.D. highlights the most undervalued resource of the church.D. Greer. I'm your host, Molly Vitovich. Today on the program, Pastor J.D. highlights the most

undervalued resource of the church. Do you think you can guess it? Believe it or not, it's prayer.

Discarded by many and not tried by even more, prayer is actually the vehicle through which the

blessings of God are released and the promises of God are enacted.

In Daniel chapter 9, we will not only see five principles that make for effective prayer,

but we will also get a one-of-a-kind glimpse into what happens in heaven as we pray.

Sounds exciting, yes? So let's join Pastor J.D. right now with a message he creatively titled,

Prayer and a Forgotten pair of Air Jordans.D. right now with a message he creatively titled Prayer and a forgotten pair of Air Jordans.

Hope that you have your Bible or turn it on and scroll down to Daniel 9 if that's where you are.

I want to talk with you today about what I believe is the most undervalued resource in the church.

Larry Aw, who was a maintenance worker at Milwaukee's

Capitol Court Mall, was cleaning up a storage facility in that mall right before the mall was set

to be demolished. When Larry found in a trash pile a pair of sneakers that were buried underneath

some old boxes. They were obviously

used. They showed obvious signs of wear. But as Larry looked more closely in them, he recognized on

the side Michael Jordan's signature on the side of one of the size 13 shoes with the inscription

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