When you need something supernatural, that's not saying grace, that's not saying a quick prayer, that's going in the labor.

Dr Tony Evans says the kind of prayer that really makes a difference is hard, hard work.

You say, why do I have to go for all that? a difference is hard, hard work.

You say, why do I have to do for all that?

Because you're giving birth to a miracle.

You're asking God to do something out of the ordinary.

This is the alternative with Dr. Tony Evans, author, speaker, senior

pastor of Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship in Dallas, Texas, and president of the

Urban Alternative.

Prayer can be a pleasure as we enjoy the closeness it gives us with God.

But today, Dr Evans will tell us how to take our prayers to the next level,

a level that's much more effective, but much less comfortable.

Let's join him as he explains.

Prayer is the one thing God has established to make contact with what he has already decreed.

Where there is no prayer, there is no contact, and where there is no contact you do not get what God has already

declared for you to have known as his will. The lesson that you and I are going to

learn from Elijah today, I want you to right now put everything out of your mind you've ever thought about prayer for a few moments.

And I want us to learn from Elijah this point of contact and how it works.

Let me start off by reading two verses.

Chapter 17 verse 1, first kings.

Now Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab,

as the Lord the God of Israel lives before whom I stand, surely there shall be neither do nor reign these years except by my word.

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