WHY WE PRAY
By Jim Hall

When I first got excited about prayer I was a young man and a young Christian. I was pretty zealous and  became stirred up about prayer because I wanted to see impact and change in the world. I wanted to see God do supernatural things on earth and I loved the concept of ‘answered prayer’ and that “the prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective” (James 5:16). In 1997, the Christian worship band, Delirious released the song ‘History Maker’, and the lyrics really summed up a lot of my paradigm of prayer: