Pray Without Ceasing, Tozer

Pray Without Ceasing

Pray without ceasing. --1 Thessalonians 5:17

I knew of an able preacher greatly used of the Lord in evangelism and Bible conferences. He was a busy, busy man. There came the occasion when someone frankly asked him, "Doctor, tell us about your prayer life. How do you pray? How much do you pray?"

The man was embarrassed as he replied, "I must confess to you something I have not confessed before. I do not have the time to pray as I used to. My time alone with God has been neglected."

Not too long afterward, that preacher sustained a serious failure. It brought his ministry to an abrupt end, and he was put on the shelf.

If we want to be honest with God, we will take solemnly the admonition to pray without ceasing. God's work on this earth languishes when God's people give up their ministries of prayer and supplication. I cannot tell you why this is true, but it is true. Men Who Met God, pp. 46-47

"What a sad statement, Lord: 'I do not have the time to pray as I used to.' Deliver me from that neglect and keep me faithful in this high priority. Then guard me from that 'serious failure.' Amen."

A.W. Tozer

Why is it, that the very thing the Christian needs to thrive in their Christian life they avoid?

We find the greatest of excuses to not pray, and it just shows.

Ever heard the saying 'Sleep when you're dead'.

God bless.

Thank you Chapel for this post. Every minister of Jesus Christ should make prayer a top priority. Have you ever heard of a pastor staying away from the church "prayer meeting" because he was too busy to pray?

The enemy doesn't give a rip how much religious work that we are doing, as long as we are not praying, because without prayer we will be moving in the energy of the flesh. God is not pleased by our good works that are done in the flesh without an utter dependence on the Holy Spirit. The flesh that does good works will also sin if given the opportunity.

May the Lord help us to give heed to the words of Jesus Christ, that "Without Him we can do nothing".

Mike