The
Bible is filled with hundreds of passages on prayer. Because communication is
so important for any relationship and people were created for relationship,
prayer is integral to our being and to being in a relationship with God.
Without
daily prayer, we are like a plant that has no source of nutrients. We wither,
turn inwards on ourselves, die, and become dust tossed about by every wind.
Prayer
is the source of our nutrients, a channel of food, that grows us upward in our
relationship with God, inward in our estimation of ourselves, and outward in
our relationship with other people.
Without
relationship with God grown through prayer, we gain no guidance in our purpose
of being alive.
Our
redemption by Jesus comes from His relationship with the Father and His
sacrifice to have relationship with us.
Our
hearing God’s voice and being saved comes because of prayer and through our
prayer of acceptance and confession of sins.
If
we don’t pray, we cut off that which Jesus gave His life for—relationship with
Him, and we negate the meaning and method of our salvation. Then we die a
martyr to this world and have an eternal destiny without God.
Prayer
is vital to our lives as Christians.
