Effective Prayer

James 5:16  The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective.

Prayer is the way to exercise faith and hope.  The magnitude of my blessings are realized as I meditate on God's provisions, forgiveness, love, and the hope of heaven, my heart is filled with joy and peace and overflows with love and thankfulness for God. I want others to have this same hope, this same joy and peace, this eternal love from our Father in Heaven.

• God's provisions:  Isaiah 42:5 This is what God says - the God who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread out the earth and its produce, who gives breath to the people on it and life to those who walk in it.
• God's forgiveness:  1 John 2:12 I am writing to you, little children, because your sins have been forgiven on account of His name.
• God's love: Ephesians 2:4-7 But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love for us even when we were dead because of our offenses, made us alive together with the Messiah (by grace you have been saved,) raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him in the heavenly realm in the Messiah Jesus, so that in the coming ages He might display the limitless riches of His grace that comes to us through His kindness in the Messiah Jesus.
• Immortal hope:  1 Peter 1:3-5 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus, the Messiah! Because of His great mercy He has granted us a new birth, resulting in an immortal hope through the resurrection of Jesus, the Messiah, from the dead and to an inheritance kept in heaven for you that can't be destroyed, corrupted or changed. Through faith you are being protected by God's power for a salvation that is ready to be revealed at the end of this era.

A yearning for god, a desire for prayer, and a heart for people are characteristics of those who continually pray and trust that God answers each prayer according to His perfect will and timing.