Welcome to the Paul Tripp podcast, where pastor and best-selling author Paul David Tripp connects the transforming power of Jesus Christ to everyday life.

Prayer can be a struggle for many Christians. We know we're called to pray, but we don't always understand why or how.

In today's episode, we continue our sermon series from the archives in the book of James.

In this message, Paul reminds us what prayer is and what it does in our lives.

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Now here's Paul from James 5.

When you are up against it,

when you are facing things that you never thought you would face,

when your life is not working according to your plan,

where do you run?

What do you do?

When things are going very well,

when you are tasting God's blessing, when you are very aware of the good things that you have been given,

where do you run? What do you do?

Well, we're about the at the end of this letter from James.

I must confess I'm a bit sad.

James has done a wonderful job of painting for us a portrait of the messiness of the life of faith in a fallen world.

Struggles of trial.

Struggles of temptation.

Struggles of anger and conflict, struggles of partiality, the struggle of faith and

works, struggles of wisdom, struggles of conflict. And yet I am deeply persuaded that with all the helpfulness of that and all the reality

that all of us can relate to all of those struggles because they're present in all of our

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