Prayer Concerns for Month of July
1. For ministers of God to be convinced not just by lip-service, but demonstrated in action that prayerlessness is indeed a sin. “A bankrupt who had a millstone of debts around his neck would not delay long in using blank checks signed by a millionaire and specially donated to him for his distress. Why then do we Christians delay in using the ‘exceeding great and precious promises’ which have already been signed by the Pierced Hand?” (Leonard Ravenhill, Revival Praying, 2010, p. 63). “We may call prayerlessness neglect, or lack of spiritual appetite, or loss of vision. But that which matters is what God calls it. In I Samuel 12:23 God calls prayerlessness sin: ‘God forbid that I should sin against the Lord in ceasing to pray for you.’ Prayerlessness is disobedience, for God's command is that men ought always to pray and not to faint. To be prayerless is to fail God, for He says, ‘Ask of me.’ Prayerlessness is sin” (Ibid., p. 64). "Prayer links man's impotence to God's ...