Without Ceasing
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Prayer is vital for the Christian and for the Church. Prayer is also difficult, demanding, and constantly waylaid by the Christian’s and the church’s ancient foe. The high cost of prayer in terms of surrender of life, commitment of time, and the sacrifice of spiritual and physical energies often cause even the best of Christians to reallocate prayer to secondary importance. This lack of praying might be understandable and possibly acceptable if the cost of prayerlessness were not so eternally high.The believer’s life and all Christian endeavors are dependent for their success to a large extent on prayer. Christians may live and labor faithfully and it is all for naught without God’s involvement, and God’s involvement is secured only by prayer (James 4:2-3; John 15:7). Prayer secures the blessings of God on every area of life and ministry of the church. Although it cannot take the place of other ministries, without prayer other ministries are doomed to failure. God, therefore, commands believers to pray without ceasing (I Thessalonians 5:17; Ephesians 6:18).Despite certain knowledge of the vital necessity of prayer, it will not naturally occur in the life of a Christian nor in the life of a church. Prayer is an unseen work or ministry. Because of this, it is often sacrificed for more seen needs. Even when prayer becomes a disciplined and vital part of the life of a Christian and a church, it can become somewhat rote and ritualistic even from sincere prayers. This means of developing a relationship of intimacy with Jesus Christ and maturity as a believer is thus in constant danger of eroding away.Prayer can be boring, ritualistic, and repetitious instead of fresh, alive, and invigorating. The busy-ness of a twenty-first century Christian’s daily life and a church’s full, demanding, and rushed program exert incessant subtle influences that push prayer off to the side. Because fervent prayer is in constant danger of deterioratio
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