8 Prayers That You Need to Stop Praying

[MarkBelosa]

Originally Posted by shazeep

nice, ty.Hmm, nope! I'd like some context for that, too, as i have virtually no prayer life. Ty

If memory serves me right, it had something to do with being "lukewarm" as opposed to being zealous for God. (Jesus' message to Laodicea in the book of Rev)

It's dangerous because one prays just enough to "pacify" one's conscience or something to that effect.

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I just checked google and found this:

http://www.fbinstitute.com/Bounds/Po...ayer_Text.html

Preachers are human folks, and are exposed to and often caught by the strong driftings of human currents. Praying is spiritual work; and human nature does not like taxing, spiritual work. Human nature wants to sail to heaven under a favoring breeze, a full, smooth sea. Prayer is humbling work. It abases intellect and pride, crucifies vainglory, and signs our spiritual bankruptcy, and all these are hard for flesh and blood to bear. It is easier not to pray than to bear them. So we come to one of the crying evils of these times, maybe of all times -- little or no praying. Of these two evils, perhaps little praying is worse than no praying. Little praying is a kind of make-believe, a salvo for the conscience, a farce and a delusion.