How is your prayer life?

If your anything like me, then it is not good. I know there have been so many times I thought that God may be wanting me to stop what I was doing, and go to an empty room, and pray. And almost all of those times I ignored it, and continued to do what I wanted to do. Prayer is not easy for me. I think that satan has fought against my prayer life, and done a lot of damage. Often I feel guilty, and the last thing I want to do is to approach our Holy God. So all of you out there, know that you are not a lone. Countless Christians struggle with this. I think that the more I know Christ and love Him; the easier it is to pray to Him. A persons sinful nature fights against prayer. It is God who draws us to pray. Now I am beginning to realize the importance of prayer. Not to pray only for Gods blessing, but to pray for Christ Himself. To pray because we want to know Christ more, and to be transformed into His image. Truly we are nothing without Christ. Often I try to serve God when my prayer life is nothing. And my work is worthless! I do nothing good, because God is not in control of me.

Please read below. It is part of a speech that David Wilkerson spoke in 1982. Click here for the full speech. I know he is truly a man of God, and he practices what he preaches.

¨Our Savior, who has the care and concern for multiplied universes, has the time to pray just for you! He takes the time to intercede for you before the throne of God (Heb. 7:25), and you say you do not have time to pray to Him!

We work feverishly for a Christ we ignore. We will go anywhere, do anything, in His name. But we will not pray. We will sing in a choir. We will visit the sick and the prisoners. But we will not pray. We will counsel the hurt and needy; we will stay up all night to comfort a friend, but we will not pray. We will fight corruption! We will crusade for morality! We will stand up against nuclear weapons! But we will not pray!

Most of all, we don't pray because we really don't believe it works. Prayer is a bloody battleground! It is where victories are won! A place to die to self! A place where a holy God exposes secret sin! No wonder Satan tries to hinder prayer! A praying man sends a shudder through hell. That man or woman is marked because Satan knows prayer is the power that crushes his kingdom. Satan is not afraid of power-hungry saints, but he trembles at the sound of a praying saint!¨