Far too many of us want to throw in the towel before we've thrown up the prayers.

Dr. Tony Evans says believers need to look up before they give up.

Grace is available but only at the throne and you can only approach the throne through prayer.

This is the alternative broadcast featuring the timeless biblical teachings from the archives of Dr. Tony Evans.

When life gets chaotic, prayer often becomes an afterthought instead of our first response.

But today, Dr. Evans explains why talking to God should be our automatic reaction, whether we're

walking through trials or celebrating blessings.

Let's turn to James Chapter 5 as he explains how prayer connects us to the grace we need

and why making it a priority can transform our daily lives.

Prayer is the most misunderstood and most neglected aspect of the Christian life.

God has so constructed the world, he is so wired the world, that he has said,

there are many things he will not do in the life of the Christian apart from prayer. First of all,

let's look at the priority of prayer. Verse 13. Is anyone among you suffering, let him pray?

That is, instead of complaining in verse 9, and instead of swearing, cussing, fussing,

and making false oaths in verse 12, open your mouth,

but not for those purposes.

If you are going through affliction, that's what the Greek word for suffering means,

and it can be used of any kind of affliction, it can be physical affliction, it can be emotional affliction,

it can be circumstantial affliction, it can be financial affliction, it can be

familial affliction, no matter what the classification of affliction is, if you are going through it,

let him pray. Now what's very important is that what God wants, as he communicates through the

Apostle James, is that prayer should be the priority.

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