Pressure, Prayer, & Praise

“Well, I guess all we can do now is pray!” I wince when I hear those words. Don’t you? Prayer is the first and best response to the pressures in life that so often prompt us to grumble to God and complain about others whose lives seem easier than ours. James insists that mature Christians are those who know how to pray and praise God while they’re suffering. Job knew God as the One who gave “songs in the night ”(Job 35:10). Paul and Silas praised God while unjustly suffering in the Philippian jail.