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Is prayerlessness a stronghold in your life?
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#19 (of 20) from the PrayerPower radio series
Prayerlessness used to be a stronghold in my life. In the classic book, Prayer: Life’s Limitless Reach, Jack Taylor describes such a stronghold, and I really identified with him. Like Taylor, I’m not a morning person; the only way I can work in a consistent prayer time is to set the alarm early anyway, but it has always been a struggle. The more I desire to pray, the more difficult the struggle. Can you identify with that? Jack Taylor could have written about me when he said, "Prayerlessness, like most other sins, is more than a sin if it is allowed to exist across the years. It develops into a stronghold. ...I developed an aversion to getting up early....I would often...set the alarm two hours before I wanted to get up so I would enjoy the consciousness of going back to sleep...." [Prayer: Life’s Limitless Reach, Broadman Press, 1977]God revealed to Jack Taylor that his problem was a stronghold through the words of the Apostle Paul: "The weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds...." [2 Corinthians 10:4] It was a stronghold that affected Taylor’s thought processes, his body metabolism, his personal preferences and his decision-making faculties.Jack Taylor was delivered from the stronghold by standing in prayer against it in Jesus’ powerful name. So can we--but first, we have to recognize prayerlessness as a continuing sin that may have become a stronghold, and we must desire to repent and be free.
Pray with me now -- Lord, forgive our prayerlessness and deliver us from any strongholds we’ve allowed, in Jesus name. Amen.
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