prayerlessness

I know for me, I need to be more constant in my prayer life. I should be praying throughout the day, in constant communication with my Heavenly Father. Instead I pray when big situations come at me...when in reality, I need to be in prayer during the calm moments of my days...not only the crazy stress-ful moments that I live through.

On a larger scale, I've been thinking that not only must I deepen my prayer life, but so must the church. In order to combat the evil that surrounds us, we must be in constant prayer for us and for one another. Satan is the god of this world and in order to be salt and light we must be in constant communication with our Heavenly Father through prayer. And I find it so amazing that when we don't know how to pray, that the Holy Spirit prays on our behalf.

Not only must the believers deepen their prayer lives, but we need to be wrestling in prayer for the unbelievers around us. In a day, we as believers face tough decisions which need prayer but we also must present the souls of the unsaved to God..because at this moment they are going to spend eternity in hell. Prayer opens doors for witnessing and softens the unbeliever's heart. Prayer is powerful and sometimes I think that we forget to realize just how powerful prayer truly is. We neglect to see the power of prayer because we overlook the Provider of our prayer requests. We pray to an ALL POWERFUL GOD.

I sometimes find myself wondering: what if I prayed more? What would God do through my prayers? Would lives be changed for eternity? Would God heal the sick and hurting people in my life? What would God do if I spent more time in prayer?

The answer to that question is that God would do more than I would ask or imagine (Eph. 3:20). If God promises to do more than I ask of Him or more than I can imagine Him doing, why don't I spend more time in prayer? Why don't I pour out my requests to my Saviour?

Somedays, I must confess, that I am so distracted by this world. I know that I am called not to be part of the world but the world sometimes consumes my time. In my life, in order for me to spend more time in prayer, I need to get my own Gethsemane. A place where I can pour out my heart to my God and not be hindered by what the world has to offer me at that particular moment. When I pray, I need to be away from the world. I shouldn't be able to hear the tv that my brother is listening to, and I can't listen to the radio when I pray because then I get distracted.


One final thing, I was reading last night and this quote caught my attention...which made me write this post. Anyway, it asks, " Have you ever lost one hour of sleep over the tragice spiritual death of your town or city? Has it ever kept you awake? And have you cried, ' O God, what can I do about this thing?'"