TITLE: When Prayer Changes Me TEXT: Habakkuk 3:17-19Colossians 2:6- “Therefore, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him…” Hebrews 12:1 – “…let us run with endurance the race that is set before us…” 1 Peter 2:5 – “… you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house…”Prayer changes me: Prayer…1 – PREPARES US FOR HARD TIMES – V.172 – PRODUCES IN US THE PERSPECTIVE OF JOY – V.18Waylon Bailey - “In a world which sees almost everything in economic terms, believers need to consider the profundity of Habakkuk’s faith. Though the worst things in life happen, believers need a faith which depends on the God of the universe and worships him as the true Lord of life.”James 1:2-4 - “Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.”Romans 5:3-4 - “...we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, 4 and endurance produces character, and character produces hope…”3 – POSITIONS US IN SUSTAINING POWER – V.19