The Cause OF Prayerlessness In The Life Of Christian Part 2
How many times does a believer pray a day? The Muslim pray 5
times a day all their lives as a lifestyle. The Jews pray 3 times a day
all their life as a lifestyle. They do it whether they are happy or not,
whether they are under attack or not; whether they are blessed or not;
whether they are sad or happy, they just do it because it’s a lifestyle
for total take over of the earth forces and it foundation.
But as a Christian and all we do is to pray for one or two times
and we thought we have made it—NO! You ought to take prayer as a
lifestyle and continuously abiding under it as your daily responsibilty.
Always praying in the morning and afternoon. Praying in the evening;
praying in the night and also praying at midnight. You must follow the
four seasons and the four watches of the day; and the four watches of
the night and praying consistently.
Praying must become your daily lifestyle; so you pray whether
you feel like praying or not. You pray when you are broke. You pray when
you are blessed. And you pray when you are down. You also pray when you
are up because prayer is a necessity for survival and for the
maintenance of daily victory for the believer. In fact, if you stop
praying you start sinning and if you start sinning you stop praying
THE BARRIER THAT HINDER THE PRAYER OF CHRISTIAN.
1 . Late Sleeping; The
first cause and reason why some Christian don’t pray fervently is due to
late night sleeping. Some have the gift of looking at the television
from morning till night every day. In this our new age of Cable
Television Network, some will look at cable and the cable will turn and
begin to look at them. They will suddenly doze off snoring in prayer “Father Lord, eeeeeh, thank you forrrr, in Jesus name-amen” And they will bundle themselves upon their bed. No wonder in the night you will have nightmares. They will pursue you, skeleton and mad dog pursuing you and you come to the pastor for deliverance.
Which deliverance? You ought to deliver yourself first from that
demon, that influence of making Television and video films the gods of
your life. What is god? This is anything that takes the place of sit of
God in your life and it becomes your gods or your idol. When the time of
God is giving to Television and video films, it categorically takes the
time of God in your life. Moreover, a prayer warrior is away awake
while others are asleep.
Sometimes, in the night the Lord will come and invisible hands
will touch you and a burden will propel through your spirit. The Lord
will minister to you there is a battle somewhere and instantly you will
begin to pray. Nevertheless, in some scenarios when you want to pray,
two voices may speak to you. One will minister to you, “Remember you are travelling tomorrow, if you pray now driver will carry you across your destination”
Another voice may tell you “Sleep, look all your eyes are inside your skull, if you pray now would anybody marry you? My beloved, this thing can discourage you and cause you to disobey God. God says, “Thou
art my battle axe and weapons of war: for with thee will I break in
pieces the nations, and with thee will I destroy kingdoms; And with thee
will I break in pieces the horse and his rider; and with thee will I
break in pieces the chariot and his rider; With thee also will I break
in pieces man and woman; and with thee will I break in pieces old and
young; and with thee will I break in pieces the young man and the maid
“Jeremiah 51:20-22.
Sometimes, the Lord might wake you up and gives you a burden to
pray for a brother in need. A brother surrendered by an assassin. Late
sleeping at night is a very dangerous tool used to attack the prayer
life of many Christian. Sometimes God may send what I called an anointed
mosquito in a special sense to wake you up. The mosquito will comes to
your ear and begin to buzz around with a commanding tune “wakeeee upp and prayyy; wakeeee up and praaaaay; wake up and pray” And then you try to kill it---NO, YOU CAN’T KILL IT. It was sent to wake you up so that you can do your function as a Christian.
YOU ARE A WATCHMAN TO THE NATION
Yes; God want you to pray. He says’ So thou, O son of
man, I have set thee a watchman unto the house of Israel; therefore thou
shalt hear the word at my mouth, and warn them from me” Ezekiel 33:7. Many years ago a man was employed as a watchman but one day he called his master and said, “Heh,
master, Please don’t move out tomorrow, last night I have a terrible
dream and revelation where assassin came upon you. Please don’t go out
or else they will kill you”
Though afterward he was sacked, why did his master sacked him?
Here was a man who was supposed to watch but he left his duty post and
slept off. And before you sleep to the level that you will dream, which
means it was a serious sleep. So that man wasn’t qualify to be a
watchman. My Point is this “many Christians have slept off in their duty post and now the devil is working overtime.
2. The Barrier Of Sin; Another cause of prayerlessness in the life of Christian is sinfulness. He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer shall be abomination" Proverb 28:9.
If you are going to prayer house be careful because native doctor are
no more living in thatches houses in the village. They are now living in
prayer houses. They are no longer operating their devilish enterprise
in thatch house in the village. They are operating in form of prayer
houses.
They will see vision and divination, “hmmm; hmmm, as I
was praying a saw a rat pursuing a lion, come and fast for 7 days and if
you can’t fast pay us so that we can fast on your behalf and let us
know why a rat was pursuing a lion” That was a psychology of retaining you. I mean, why should you beguiled by such deceptive act? Psalm 66:18 "If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me" The
bible said; if I behold iniquity in my heart the Lord will not hear me.
Even if I fast for 20 years the Lord will not hear me. If I refuse to
repent my prayer become nonsense.
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My beloved, there are things you don’t understand. How can a
woman who is a prostitute open a prayer house with children all over the
place yet no husband? Yet people are trouping to her home to see vision
and to receive one thing or the other. How can you be operating and
living in sinfulness and still calling upon God. Actually you can’t pray
because your prayer zeal will be thwarted. Moreover, if you start
sinning you stop praying because the passion and reviving zeal of
praying will left and be replaced with guiltiness and self condemnation.
3. Faithlessness, Over Eating And Over Sleeping;
Another barrier to prayer is faithlessness, over eating and over
sleeping. There are some Christians who are food and sleep bulldozers.
When they begin to sleep if you carry them outside they will continue
snoring. When you wake them up to eat, they can mistakenly put their
food in the watching water because of sleep. Imagine someone kneeing
down to pray and still sleeping. It’s an insult to God to sleep on your
knee while praying. It’s a serious offence to sleep on your knee while
praying to God.
Imagine you looking for an audience with the president of your
country and after passing through all security clearance and protocols
and you were granted an audience with your president and you said, “Thank you Mr. President for granting me this audience, what I have come to discuses is uuuuuhhuuuuu” And you begin to sleep.
You did better be imprisoned for wasting his excellence time. Hence, the presidential General of the whole world has given us a prayer privilege. Instead of intercessor tears around you we have sleep bulldozers saliva. Some people has computerized their legs, when they are sleeping during church fellowship they will still making movement and the ushers will be confused.
You did better be imprisoned for wasting his excellence time. Hence, the presidential General of the whole world has given us a prayer privilege. Instead of intercessor tears around you we have sleep bulldozers saliva. Some people has computerized their legs, when they are sleeping during church fellowship they will still making movement and the ushers will be confused.
4. Malice. Another barrier to payers is malice. There is no way you can have something against someone and you come to pray. Likewise
also wandering thoughts, sometimes when you knee down to pray one voice
will tell you, “remember this appointment, you didn’t cover your pot of
soup etc" The devil has purposely done this so that you can hurried over the prayer.
5. A Talker Active;
Another barrier is talker active. A talker active cannot be a prayer
warrior. There is no way you can talk too much and pray. When you talk
too much all things you have said will come and built a cloud above and
you can’t operate in prayers.
6. Lack Of Burden; When
you don’t have a burden how can you pray? Whenever God want to used you
he will first gives you a burden but inasmuch the burden has already
been imposed upon you to intercede on other in prayers, but due lack of
commitment and carelessness you forbid to take hold and retained your
prayer mantle. Let me challenge you, all things are possible to him who
can pray. John 14:13-14 "And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name,
that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If ye
shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it"
Jesus said "you don’t have because you haven’t asked
even up till now you haven’t asked---asked and you shall received,
knocked and it shall be opened, seek and you shall find” All
things are possible to him who can pray. It doesn’t matter if you went
to school or not but with prayer God can still make something out of
you. Matthew 7:7-8 "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye
shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:For every one that
asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh
it shall be opened" To neglect this private prayer is a locust which will devoured the strength of the church.
BIBLICAL MEN AND WOMEN WHO PRAY AND BEHOLD GOD
Let emphasize about biblical men and women who prayed and saw God.
1 . Abraham; Genesis 19:27 And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the LORD"
Abraham has a prayer burden. The bible said he will always stand on
that place where he always meets with the Lord. God didn’t hide his
plans from him because he was a prayerful man.
When we begin to have watchmen on our cities, nations and
churches honestly God will begin to revealed secrets unto us. But
unfortunately today, we are too busy to pray and when we are too busy to
pray God will be too busy to manifest. Whenever we become too busy to
gives God time the glory will not manifest.
2. Moses; Look at Moses, his prayers brought victory against the amalekie. Exodus
17:9 And Moses said unto Joshua, Choose us out men, and go out, fight
with Amalek: tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the rod
of God in mine hand” Moses was a man of prayers. He stood and God answer his prayer. He fasted until the glory of God reflected on him.
3. Elijah; what about
Elijah who lucked-up heaven for 31/2 year and there was no rainfall? He
pockets the key and put it into his pocket and opened it at self-will.
He was a man of like passion. Nevertheless, I think there is something
that God want to make out of you. Moreover you can do better than you
are presently doing. But the problem is this, “Please get back to God. He is seeking for a watchman. He wants to pour his special anointing upon you today”
My dearest prayer is that after reading this message, the
anointing of prayer will descend upon you and you will begin to pray as
you haven’t prayed before. Probably, you have a prayer covenant with
God. You used to wake-up in certain day in the night to pray. Some
certain day in the week you make a covenant to always fast but right
now, materialism, pursuits and vainglory has broken your praying and
fasting covenant with God.
Just look at you, the other day you slept without prayer. Right
now, some un-usual things have begin to happen in your life because you
have broken your prayer covenant. And before God do you know your name?
You are a covenant breaker and at this moment un-usual things has begin
to happen in your life and it will continue to happen because you failed
to keep your prayer covenant.
What can we say about Nehemiah who refused to be side-tracked and Esther who took a risk? She said Go,
gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan, and fast ye
for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day: I also and
my maidens will fast likewise; and so will I go in unto the king, which
is not according to the law: and if I perish, I perish; Esther 4:16. David said When I remember thee upon my bed, and meditate on thee in the night watches, Psalm 63:6; which mean he was a man of prayer.
Daniel prays three times, he was an administrator. He was state
man at the corridor of power yet he prayed three times a day. He
disciplines himself. Daniel 6:10 “Now when Daniel knew that the
writing was signed, he went into his house; and his windows being open
in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees three times a
day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime” Moreover, when you are too busy to pray God will be too busy to manifest.
Men who work before us were prayer warriors. John Charles Wesley was praying four hours every day. Look at Susanna Wesley (John
Wesley mother), she has 19 children yet she creates time to spend with
Jesus every day. What can i say about Apostle Ayo Babalola who knee down
to pray and his knee pierced a rock. He can stood to pray for 3 days
without sitting down.
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Oh where are we brethren? I can hear the Holy Ghost saying “wanted-wanted-wanted, a praying people” And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none; Ezekiel 22:30. Have you lost your prayer life? Has the devil taken over your prayer life? Are you now been messed-up? Moreover, you knew there is now a vacuum in your heart.
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Oh where are we brethren? I can hear the Holy Ghost saying “wanted-wanted-wanted, a praying people” And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none; Ezekiel 22:30. Have you lost your prayer life? Has the devil taken over your prayer life? Are you now been messed-up? Moreover, you knew there is now a vacuum in your heart.
Yes, you shout and sing but you sincerely knew there is a vacuum
in your spirit. You don’t have much time to pray again. You are too
busy to pray and seek God. Please get back to your post; do you know why
the glory has departed? Before God was using you, power and anointing
was upon your life. The Holy Ghost wants me to ask you now “where
are your yesterday when you were on your glory, when power was upon
your life? Where is your yesterday when you preached and the glory came
down? Are you trying to covered –up or managed”
My beloved, it all fell the day your prayer life was taken away by the devil. However, God is still saying “wanted-wanted-wanted,
I want to do something in this generation. I want to release my power;
am releasing a last way of revival but somebody must usher in the
revival” Yes, you can be the man. Even now God can still use
you. I need you to left up your hand to heaven and pray this prayer of
reconciliation.
PRAYER OF RECONCILIATION UNTO GOD
The spirit of the living God come afresh upon me, the bible said And
I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of
Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look
upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one
mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one
that is in bitterness for his firstborn, Zachariah 12:10. The
spirit of supplication of the living God comes afresh upon me. Let the
anointing of prayer come afresh upon me in Jesus name.
Let us begin to repent from our prayerlessness and asked the
Lord to send unto us the spirit of prayer and intercession that will
enable us to begin to pray and seek God as never before. Only by
enacting this spiritual exercise can pave-way for revival in our church.
You must fill that gap in your church, family and everywhere. The Lord
is calling you; get back to your duty post. You must no give the devil
any chance because it is 5 minutes to 12.
Father Lord, I appreciate you for this warning message unto the
church because we have broken our prayer covenant. Even some of us are
beginning to sleep on our knee. We have abandoned our duty and
assignment. Father Lord, we pray for your forgiveness. Please renew us
Oh Lord with your power, and let the strength of prayer and anointing
come afresh upon the church. The Holy Ghost come and quickens us and let
the fire of prayer to begin to burn in our heart in Jesus name.