If we plan on growing spiritually this year, it is important to develop our prayer life day by day. To live well and excel, we need to make prayer more of a priority. Prayer really does change things. We live in a fallen world and on an earth with a curse, and to see God’s will be done on the earth as it is in heaven, we have to pray! To see things change, we make our requests made known unto God, and then thank Him that He hears us and is working on our behalf. If we have a habit of taking time to talk to God all throughout the day, we can live in the place where we actually do pray without ceasing. It can happen as we involve God in our every thought and action. We can have a spirit of prayer that prevails moment by moment. Prayer is really communicating with God. It is back and forth conversation. God doesn’t speak audibly very often, but he whispers revelation and insight of His will to us as we read His Word and listen to His Spirit. Our spirit is our “knower”, and God lets us know on the inside what we need to know. James 5 says that the effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man or woman makes great power available, effective in its working. To live as believers with the effective power of God available to see things change on this earth, our prayer life needs to be fervent. The word fervent actually means enthusiastic, passionate and zealous. My prayer for your prayer life is that you would makes time with God in prayer a priority and that it would be enthusiastic, passionate and zealous, which would make great power available, effective in its working!