{"id":21420,"date":"2018-03-14T08:00:07","date_gmt":"2018-03-14T12:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mintools.com\/blog\/?p=21420"},"modified":"2025-04-30T09:25:24","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T13:25:24","slug":"prayerlessness-due-to-ignorance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mintools.com\/blog\/prayerlessness-due-to-ignorance.htm","title":{"rendered":"Prayerlessness Due to Ignorance?"},"content":{"rendered":"

To be sure, we live in a Bible illiterate<\/a> world. Even many Christians lack a good or thorough knowledge of God’s Word. Yet, for many believers, prayerlessness is not due to ignorance. Most of us concur with the importance of prayer and the need to make it a priority. Even unbelievers tend to appreciate prayer offered on their behalf, particularly when going through crisis.<\/p>\n

Prayerlessss Due to Ignorance of God’s Commands to Pray?<\/h2>\n

Verses like the following, written as commands rather than suggestions, exhort us to make prayer a constant priority in our lives:<\/p>\n

\"GodDevote yourselves to prayer. (Col. 4:2)<\/em><\/p>\n

Pray continually. (1 Thess. 5:17)<\/em><\/p>\n

Always keep on praying for all the saints. (Eph. 6:18)<\/em><\/p>\n

Prayerlessss Due to Ignorance of what to pray?<\/h2>\n

Many Christians at least know what has come to be known as the Lord’s prayer in Luke 11:1-5, a pattern Jesus provided in response to the disciples’ request for Him to teach them to pray.<\/span><\/p>\n

But, prayer really isn’t complicated. Simply “pour out your hearts to him, for God is our refuge” (Ps. 62:8)<\/span>. Jesus stressed how praying isn’t to be about the quantity of our words or eloquence in how we speak but merely being real with God (Matt. 6:1-8).<\/span><\/p>\n

We don’t need a degree in theology to pray. We don’t have to be “spiritual giants” to pray. Even new believers who know very little about God and His Word can pray.<\/p>\n

So, if for many or most of us, prayerlessness isn’t due to ignorance, then why don’t we pray? In the next three posts we’ll continue to respond to that question. Subscribe to receive e-mail notice of new posts<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Check out this Resource:<\/strong> Prayer Bits: Small Bits But Big Truths on Prayer Devotional<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To be sure, we live in a Bible illiterate world. Even many Christians lack a good or thorough knowledge of God\u2019s Word. Yet, for many believers, prayerlessness is not due to ignorance. Most of us concur with the importance of prayer and the need to make it a priority. Even unbelievers . . . Continue reading Prayerlessness Due to Ignorance?<\/span>→<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-praying-walk-with-god"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\t\t