Do you believe that God answers prayer? I’m not asking if you think he hears you, but if you believe he really listens and answers your prayers. The Lord has challenged me in my own faith in recent weeks. Our study in James is a large part of that. What does it look like to be someone who asks God for wisdom or other things he promises to give us without doubting (James 1:6)? Am I the doubting, double-minded person who is unstable in all his ways (1:8)?

I’ve seen evidence of the Lord’s gracious answer to prayer in spite of my lack of faith. On three separate occasions in the last few weeks I have prayed for something very specific, and the Lord answered my prayer! The problem is that when he answered them, I was shocked!