Well, if you are unhappy with your prayer life, you join a lot of us.

You have company, and Pastor John has a word for all of us on December 28, 2008, he preached

a sermon on prayer titled, Put in the Fire for the sake of prayer.

In that sermon, he lamented the pervasiveness of prayerlessness among Christians, and that's

a complaint of many Christians, even those in his own church, as you're going to hear him

talk about in just a moment.

So how do we kickstart this essential discipline in our lives in order to exercise our faith?

He offers us three practical suggestions, here now is Pastor John with him.

Let me give you a few practical suggestions, these are going out of my life and out of my

reading of the Bible, just three brief practical suggestions, because we're not doing as well

as we should.

Now suggestion number one, set aside a time and a place each day and don't leave it to

chance, set aside a time and a place each day and don't leave it to chance, the devil defeats

most praying before he happens because we didn't make a plan.

If you don't plan, believe me, I have been at this a long time and the devil hates me and

my prayer life like you wouldn't believe how many good things keep me from praying.

Not sin, sin does not keep me from praying, righteousness keeps me from praying.

It's in holy emails and other holy things, just checking out one more piece of relevant

news to pray about at whatever news service you click on.

It's not evil that keeps us from praying, it's good things and he is shrewd to the bottom.

So pick a place and pick a time and show up.

Number two, I suggest that you combine your praying with reading the Bible and that you

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