Top Ten Reasons For Prayer Fatigue BY JENNIFER KENNEDY DEAN  www.prayinglife.org 

1. Thinking of prayer as one more thing on your already crowded

“to do” list.

Prayer is not an activity, but a relationship. You live continually in that

prayer relationship. It is not something you do, but something you live.

2. The feeling that your job in prayer is to convince God or to move

Him to do your will.

Prayer is initiated by God. He moves in your heart, convincing you and

moving you to respond to Him and to open your life to His power and

provision. Instead of feeling that you have to work on Him, relax and let

Him work in you. 

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Top Ten Reasons For Prayer Fatigue (con’t) 

“And when you pray do not use vain repetitions as the heathen do.  For they think that they will be heard for their many words.”   Matthew 6:7 (NKJV) 

3. The feeling that God is grading you in prayer and you are making a barely passing grade.

God is not criticizing you and scolding you. He is not withholding His

blessings from you because you did not say your prayer correctly. The Holy

Spirit has perfected your expression of prayer in the spiritual realm and God

is responding to the cry of your heart, not the cry of your lips.

4. Trying to follow someone else’s pattern for prayer and feeling that you fall short.

God has created you with a unique personality type and your own ways of

expressing yourself. The forms of prayer or the structures for a devotional

time that works for one person may not fit you at all. God delights in you

and in your expressions of prayer.

5. The feeling that in one time-frame—maybe you call it a quiet time—you have to fit in everything included in a pre-determined prayer formula.

Prayer outlines are helpful if you keep them in the right perspective. Let them

function to keep your focused when necessary, but not to become a legalistic

burden. When you remember that you are living in a prayerful relationship,

you will recognize that in the course of your praying life you are incorporating

all the aspects of prayer, you will be freed of needing to “cover all the

bases” every time you set aside time for focused prayer.

6. Being stuck in a prayer rut.

Vary your forms of praying. Sing your prayers sometimes. Walk through

your house and pray room by room sometimes. Prayer walk your neighborhood.

Find ways to liven up your prayer experiences 

Top Ten Reasons For Prayer Fatigue (con’t) 

7. Struggling not to let your mind wander.

If your mind wanders, my first suggestion is to feel free to follow it and

see where it might be going. Maybe God is trying to lure you out of your

tightly controlled agenda and take your prayers in a direction you had

not considered.

8. Feeling that prayer is having no effect and is wasted time.

Many times the key to powerful prayer is persevering prayer. Most of what

Jesus spoke about prayer was encouragement to keep praying when it seems

that nothing is happening. As you develop a deeper understanding of the

dynamics of prayer you will come to know what you cannot see (Heb. 11:1).

God is at work in response to prayer, whether you can see what He is doing

or not. 

9. Feeling that you have to perform some kind of spiritual ritual to get

God’s attention before you can pray.

God’s attention never wanders from you. You have His full attention 24

hours of every single day. He keeps you as the apple of His eye (Ps. 17:8).

That means that if you could look into His eyes, you would see your face

reflected. He keeps you there—He never looks away.

10. Feeling that you are not good enough to pray and always feeling

ashamed in God’s presence.

Your enemy’s favorite lie. He dresses it up in religious-sounding phrases so

that it only makes sense that you should feel like a failure in God’s presence.

The truth is that God delights in you, sings over you, adores you. He will deal

with you in areas of your sins because He loves you and is not willing to see

you diminished, but He is not always waiting for your attention so that He

can criticize you. Jesus PAID IT ALL. The only offense to the cross is when

you will not receive that which He paid so high a price for you to have. 

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  King Abimelech's Dream--A Warning! By Deborah Mobley Warning: to give notice to before hand especially of danger or evil; to give admonishing advice ( Miriam-Webster Dictionary) A warning may incite fear anxiety and even worry when first given, but through God's grace, his promises and mercy that warning can have posi-tive results. King Abimelech's dilemma is a good example of all of this. The Warning But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him , "Indeed you are a dead man because of the woman whom you have taken, for she is a man's wife." But Abimelech had not come near her; and he said, "Lord, will You slay a righteous nation also? Did he not say to me, 'She is my sister? And she, even herself said, 'He is my brother.' In the integrity of my heart and innocence of my hands I have done this." ( Verses 3-5) Grace And God said to him in a dream, "Yes, I know that you did this in the integrity of your heart. For I also withheld you from sinning against Me; therefore I did not let you touch her. (Verse 6) God responded to the king with grace and kept him from committing a sin that would have cost him his life and the lives of all those that belonged to him. Promise Now therefore, restore the man's wife; for he is a prophet, and he will pray for you and you shall live. But if you do not restore her, know that you shall surely die, you and all who are yours." (Verse 7) A promise of life was given for obedience but a promise of death for disobedience. Mercy Abraham prayed to God; and God healed Abimelech, his wife, and his female servants. Then they bore children; for the Lord had closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech because of Sarah, Abraham's wife. (Verses 17-18) The Father extended mercy to Abimelech and healed him and also opened the wombs of his wife and his female servants. If you are given a warning in a dream or through other means, cast off fear and be prayerful, stay in close communion with the Father so that you can receive His grace, promise and mercy.

BY Suzette Eleam Debt is a stronghold that can keep a person’s mind off GOD. With the financial crisis that is going on in this country, every person should pray and make it a priority to get out of debt. Pray this scripture to get out of debt . . . "Owe no one anything ex-cept to love one another, for he who loves another has fulfilled the law." Romans 13:8