Prayerlessness | 1 Samuel 12:16-25
Matthew 5:44
Pray for those who persecute you
Romans 12:12
Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer.
Ephesians 6:18
And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests.
Colossians 4:2
Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful and thankful
Philippians 4:6
Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and supplications, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.”
1 Timothy 2:1
“I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone …”
1 Thessalonians 5:17
…Pray without ceasing.
“As it is the business of tailors to make clothes and cobblers to mend shoes, so it is the business of Christians to pray.” —Martin Luther
1. Prayerlessness
God.
1 Samuel 12:23
Moreover, as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against the Lord in ceasing to pray for you; but I will teach you the good and the right way.
Jeremiah 33:3
Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know.’
Matthew 27:50–51
50 And Jesus cried out again with a loud voice and yielded up his spirit.
51 And behold, the veil of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom. And the earth shook, and the rocks were split.
Hebrews 10:19-20
19 Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the holy place by the blood of Jesus, 20 by the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain
Psalm 145:18
The LORD is near to all who call on him, to all who call on him in truth
2. Prayerlessness
Us
1 Samuel 12:19
And all the people said to Samuel, “Pray for your servants to the Lord your God, that we may not die; for we have added to all our sins the evil of asking a king for ourselves.”
Matthew 7:7
“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.
3. Prayerlessness
others
1 Samuel 12:19
And all the people said to Samuel, “Pray for your servants to the Lord your God, that we may not die;
James 4:17
Therefore, to him who knows to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin.
Ezekiel 22:30
30 So I sought for a man among them who would make a wall, and stand in the gap before Me on behalf of the land, that I should not destroy it; but I found no one.