Despite popular opinions to the contrary, prayer alone does not have power, insisted the other keynote speaker, John Franklin, a prayer and discipleship specialist for LifeWay Christian Resources. The power is not in prayer. The power is in God. When we pray, we better connect with God, who has all the power. He always starts with faith.
Faith precedes everything else in the Christian life.
He responds to his people on the basis of expectation. But faith is the absolute expectation that God is going to do something, and he will. To connect with God's power, Christians must deny self interests, Franklin said. If we don't have the ability to get on our knees and see life from God's perspective, we'll forever be missing God. That is the fundamental error for all of us.