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About Prayer

The funny thing about prayer is that you actually have to do it in order to gain any results. So many Christians talk about prayer and read about prayer and say they want to be better at praying...but fail to actually pray. If we do not do the thing we need to do, how on earth will we ever improve in the doing of it? In other words, if you want to have more success when you pray then you absolutely must pray more. Take a look at this quote from E.M. Bounds, and see if it sums up the attitude of most Christians in this day and age ~      "Yet men, in general, have quit praying. They are too busy to pray. Time and strength and every faculty are given over to money, to business, to the affairs of the world. Few men expend themselves in great praying. The great business of praying is a hurried, petty, starved, beggarly business with most men."  (from the book E.M. Bounds on Prayer, the eighth chapter) I would argue that this statement is drastically more true fo