Why we don't pray. What is the reason Christians don't pray? Now many Christians don't pray.
It's pretty obvious because if we would pray we would walk in greater measure of power,
we will walk in a greater measure of revelation of God's Word. Prayer will create other habits in
our Christian life that will be evident. I'm going to share with you six reasons that I believe many
Christians don't pray today. Reason number one is the devil. I believe the devil gains the most
from prayerless Christians. God wants us to pray because God created a family. God
sees us as children. God created this marriage, we are the bride of Christ. We are His sheep.
We are His people. So God wants us to talk to Him. You cannot have a relationship without
communication. So it's pretty much the blood of our relationship, our communion with the Lord.
And guess who wants to stop and break that and take away that, that communion? No
other but the devil. If you remember Daniel. Daniel 6:10 it says that the king made a law
that no one should pray to no other God except the king. I believe that's exactly what the devil,
you know he's behind the scenes and he wants to really push his agenda,
to push prayerlessness among believers. He will use that by filling us with excuses. He will use
that by filling us with laziness. He will use that by filling us with business, sometimes with sin.
Whatever he can do. He will use everything in his arsenal to drive you away from prayer
because once you get to prayer you're unstoppable. Once you develop a prayer life my friend,
you're a conqueror. You can move mountains with God. Look at every man of God, you will find one
common denominator. They had a great relationship with God and they also had a prayer life,
from the Old Testament to the New Testament. And so when the devil can take away the prayer life,
he can take away your destiny, your spiritual walk with God. The second reason for prayerlessness or
the second reason we don't pray is because of our original sin. It's been in the human nature
to run from God. If you remember Adam and Eve when they sinned, the consequence of that sin
was hiding from God. Instead of running to God they ran from Him and they hid in some bushes,
covered themselves with leaves. And that's exactly what we've been doing, even some of us who were
born again but who still exhibit carnal mindset, carnal behaviors. And what we do, is we run from
God. Some of us you know, don't know what to say so we simply just hide in bushes of business. Some
of us think prayer is boring and so we rather just cover ourselves with leaves of self-righteousness
and trying to you know, prove and please God by doing good works. But all of that is not enough
because what prayer is, it's a place for the presence of God. It's where you encounter God.
It's where your life changes. So prayer is not just "God I'm sorry" and "God thank you" and plus,
"God bless me." Prayer is really an encounter with the presence of God. And the devil doesn't
want that to happen. And sin is the result of prayerlessness and prayerlessness is the result
of sin. Praying man will stop sinning and a sinning man will stop praying. Now reason number
three why many of us do not pray, don't enjoy prayer and are living a prayerless life is because
of previously unanswered prayers. Answered prayer adds to your joy. Unanswered prayer
adds to your disappointment. It's not easy to handle unanswered prayer. A lot of our prayers get
not answered because they were not prayed with the right motive. Maybe it was not the right thing we
were asking God for, maybe we held on forgiveness and unconfess sin. Maybe we treated a spouse
wrong, as it says in Peter that if we do that our prayers will be hindered. Maybe it was because of
our unbelief or maybe it's just we prayed for, we knew it's God's will it just did not happen and
we got really disappointed. And I want to let you know that the devil will use that offense
to pretty much create a blockage between you and God. You have to learn to step over the
things you don't understand, so that you can step into what God has for you. Every single person
on this planet who has a great prayer life has some prayers that still did not get answered.
Sometimes they get answered later on in life and sometimes they just don't get answered.
But you may say, "What keeps them going?" What keeps them going is the presence of God.
They don't go to prayer to use God, they go to prayer to love God. And so maybe you've had these
moments where prayers were not answered. I want to encourage you to give prayer another shot.
I want to encourage you not to trip over that, but step over that. There are things you and I don't
understand. God is bigger and bigger than us and He doesn't owe us an explanation but we owe Him
allegiance. And so you owe God your life. And God doesn't need you, you need God. You know if you
take fish out of the water, the water is still water but the fish will die. If you take trees
out of the soil, the soil is still soiled; the trees will die. If you take me and you out of God,
we're gonna die but God is still gonna be God. So we need Him. But there's gonna be
a time where God will explain why certain things happen and why certain things were not answered.
But until we are on this side of eternity my friend, we gotta kick every disappointment,
every offense including unanswered prayer. Push that aside and don't let it stop you
from your intimacy and your connection to God. Reason number four why many people don't pray.
And this reason is because they don't have a plan for prayer and therefore they find prayer boring
and uninteresting. What I mean by plan is this, is that you know it's good to make prayer a priority.
It's good to make prayer. And I have some other videos concerning that,
you know privacy in prayer, shut the door behind you Jesus says. Find your room, place for prayer.
You know He tells us to pray to your Father. That's the person of prayer.
But there's also a very important component of prayer and I call it the plan of prayer.
And some people get in there and they don't know what to do. I have two other videos that
I recorded about plan of prayer or what to do in prayer, but let me just summarize it. You know
you can go through the Lord's prayer. If sometimes you don't have any kind of prompting or leading,
read the Scriptures as you are in your prayer closet in your quiet time. Read the Scriptures
and after that pray the Lord's prayer. Break the Lord's prayer into a few components. Hallowed be
Your name, like our Father in heaven. So talk to God about your relationship with Him. Our Father
in heaven, you know and then Your kingdom come, Your will be done. Talk to God about His agenda
for this earth. Pray for the nations, pray for your city, pray for your pastors, pray for your
leaders. And then give us this day our daily bread. Ask God for your needs. Then forgive us
our sins as we forgive those people who've sinned against us. Talk to God about your relationships.
Then it says that you know don't lead us into temptation. Talk to God about your weakness.
Then it says deliver us from evil. Talk to God about things that have a stronghold on your life.
It could be simple things like sugar, caffeine, and you know maybe some kind of a unhealthy
obsession you have with something or someone. Ask God to deliver you from that and then at the end,
you know proclaim His goodness. Yours is the kingdom, the power and the glory. And so,
just kind of have a plan. There's other plans like tabernacle prayer. There's
the other plans of and I have it in the video where you go from thanksgiving, to confession,
to intercession, to speaking in tongues and etc. There are plans of prayer of Jabez.
There's a prayer of Solomon. There is the prayer of going through the redemptive names of God.
And so I have those videos where you can kind of look through them and even copy those things. And
sometimes you can sit in your quiet time after you finish reading the Word and just choose one of the
prayer patterns and just go through them. You may say, "Well but that seems mechanical." It's fine.
God sees your heart. It's all that matters. And then you're directing your prayer to the Lord. As
long as you don't make it mechanical and don't make it about methods and rules but about your
heart and about relationship with Him. The kind of approach that you have and the kind of plan
you have, God will bless it. And so maybe that's what your problem is, why you don't pray because
you feel like I have nothing to say or it's repetitive, it's the same. Try this method. Try
this plan and see if it changes something in your prayer. Number five reason why people don't pray
is because they feel like prayer is pointless. "Like what's the point of prayer? Like it won't
change my life, it won't change my future. It won't. My faith is sealed, my future is pretty
much secure and prayer is not going to do anything about it." But I want to say that's not true.
If you remember in the Bible, Ahab was supposed to be punished. He prayed and fasted.
God extended mercy. Nineveh was supposed to be destroyed. They prayed and fasted. God extended
mercy. Hezekiah was supposed to die; he prayed. God extended mercy. Israel was suppose to be wiped
out by God. Moses prayed; God extended mercy. So in other words, though prayer doesn't change God
but it will change your circumstances. And sometimes when it doesn't change
your circumstances, it will change you. Prayer is not pointless. Prayer is not pointless. Somebody
needs to hear this again. There is power that will flow in your life through prayer,
so you got to do is you got to show up and start praying. You got to show up and start
talking to God because there is power in that. If you think that everything is sealed and decided
and there's nothing you can do to change your future. I'm going to tell you, you're wrong.
Because prayer and fasting changes nations, changes continents and changes communities,
it changes families and it changes destinies. Number six. "God will do what He wants to do
regardless if I pray or not. Like if God said it, it settles it. God's promise means that He
will do what He promised He will do; my prayer is not needed. God does not need any help." Well
that is true God doesn't need any help. It's true that God will do what He said He will do but God
also wants to hear your voice. God also invites us to pray. God also tells us to ask. Jesus tells
us to ask so that our joy will be complete. The Bible also tells us to bring a request to God
and He will give us His peace. Like for example we see that Jacob prayed for the fulfillment of God's
promise. You know he couldn't have kids but God says that through Abraham's seed generations and
nations will be blessed. But Jacob can't have kids and Jacob prays. We see that Israel cried out for
the promised land. When they were in Egypt they cried out for deliverance but God promised them
Exodus. He promised them this. Why should they cry out? But we see that God was sent to Israel,
listen to this. Not as a fulfillment of His promise but as an answer to the cry of Israel.
God promises to Abraham they will be in Egypt. They are in Egypt, they're crying out for that
deliverance, they're crying out for that promised land. Why do they, why do they need to cry out?
Like what's the point. God's gonna still do what God promised to do. But when God comes and sends
Moses, He sends him as an answer to a cry, not as a fulfillment of His promise. Why? Because God
wants to co-labor with us. God wants to partner with us. God gave this earth to us. We are like
on the lease right now from God on this earth and God wants to do stuff on this earth through us.
I like what Miles Monroe said. He says, "Prayer gives earthly license for heaven's interference."
If we want heaven to get involved we have to give heaven a license and that is our prayer.
God says invite me into your affairs. And so many of us, we treat prayer as pointless and
therefore we don't see activity of God in our life. We don't see God's miracles in our life
because we don't include God. And we have this view, this very weird view of God's sovereignty.
That God just decided everything, He's gonna do everything. And honestly whatever you think Joe,
whatever you think Bob, whatever you think Nancy, is not gonna make a difference. So just sit there,
cross your hands and do nothing. That's not biblical. That's not in the New Testament and
that's not in the Old Testament. We see God tells Elijah that if he shows himself to Ahab that He
will send rain. Yet the great man of God Elijah doesn't trust God. He goes and prays and he prays
hard. And the Bible says in the New Testament that Elijah is a man of fervent prayer and God answered
his prayer by sending the rain. We see later on as well as Daniel prays for the Exodus of
children of Israel from Babylon. Well if Jeremiah prophesied that after seven years they'll be out,
why pray? But see man of God did not have that approach. They didn't see prayer as pointless,
nor did they see prayer as the only way to get what God promised or to get what they want.
Prayer was a way of communicating, it was the way of conversation, it was the way of relationship
with God, but they prayed because they believed it matters. We see that God promises the Holy Spirit.
Yet Jesus goes to God the Father and He is asking the Father to send the Holy Spirit.
Why ask the Father to send the Holy Spirit, if the Father already promised to send the Holy Spirit?
The church is praying. Why pray if God said He will send the Holy Spirit? Because see,
God promises, but the answer that He will send into your life will be a result of your prayer,
not a fulfillment of His promise. It will be both fulfillment of His promise
and an answer of the prayer. And I wonder sometimes how many promises of God we fail to see
because we are not partnering with God in prayer. I remember the guy in the Old Testament who came
to prophet Elijah and said that there is no way the famine could end overnight. And Elijah
gave this ridiculous prophecy and he's like tomorrow, pretty much the whole famine will be
gone and our economy will be pretty much really, really good. He gives him all these numbers of
how much the bread is gonna be and everything. And the guy looks at Elijah and he's like, even if God
will open the windows of heaven that's not gonna happen. So God still did what Elisha prophesied
but the guy was trembled on the way out of the city. Meaning he saw it;
he wasn't participating in it. So I wonder if that's what prayerlessness does to us.
We will see God fulfill His Word, we will just miss it. Meaning our involvement in it
will be absent. We will not be participants because we're not praying. That's what we miss
out when we live a life of prayerlessness. I want to challenge you, Jesus did not live a life of
prayerlessness. He was a son of God. He was busy. He prayed being baptized in the water. He prayed
before choosing disciples. He prayed when He was on the mount of transfiguration, as He prayed his
face was changed. He also prayed after John the baptist was beheaded and then he walked on water.
Jesus prayed before going to the cross in the garden of Gethsemane,
three times. Jesus prayed on the cross. Jesus prays now for us. So if prayer doesn't matter,
if prayer is just a chore, if prayer is just something like "Oh it's just for those people
who have nothing else to do." Then why is the Lord Jesus Christ currently occupying an office
of a prayer warrior? Prayer matters. God wants to hear you my friend. God misses you. Come on,
it's time to come back to your prayer room. It's time to come back to that intercession time. It's
time to renew and be recalibrated to your prayer life. I invite you back. Return to the things you
used to do and if you never had a prayer life, I want to ask you please do not waste your life.
Pray. Live a life of prayer. If you think that prayer takes time, you're wrong. Prayer saves
time. You will see so many stupid decisions you will avoid when you begin to pray. You will see
so much temptation you will avoid when you pray because watch and pray unless you enter temptation
Jesus said. You will avoid so much ticket, so much damage in your life if you will simply spend time
with the Holy Spirit, with the heavenly Father with the Lord Jesus Christ and the holy Bible in
your private room, in your secret place. You will either live in secret sin or a secret place but
you can't live in both. I want to invite you to the secret place. I want to invite you to
spend time with God. How's your prayer life look like? Does your prayer life need an improvement?
Does your prayer life need that revival? If it is, hey drop that in the comments. Make a confession,
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