Third, the Word incarnates prayer. This means that prayers are often invisible and concealed in the soul and in the closet and in the church. But their effect is to be in the open in the lives of other people and among the nations. God usually advances his purposes in world evangelization and personal transformation and cultural reformation by direct encounters with the truth of his Word. The Word incarnates our prayers.
Prayers become effective through the truth getting into people's ears and minds and hearts.
People don't just start believing on Jesus because you pray for them. They need to hear about Jesus. Prayer empowers the Word and the Word incarnates prayer. Saints don't just become more holy because someone prays that they will. Cultural slavery to injustice and greed and dishonesty and sexual immorality does not just change because we pray for it.