The believer and prayers
When we became born again children of God, we will naturally want to talk with him. Talking with God is what the bible calls prayer. It is an act of living fellowship with God, through worshipping Him, thanking Him, praising Him, confessing to Him and making requests of Him.
We can pray anywhere and at any time. We do not need any church building, church official of church book to be able to pray. Nor do we have to learn a special language. We can pray silently or audibly, in any position – standing, sitting, walking, and kneeling.
Knowing that God is with us everywhere, we will soon develop the habit of speaking with Him freely regardless of the time or place. They should also develop the habit of making time each day to be alone with God to pray. Even Jesus recognized the need to set aside time especially for prayers.
Speaking silently to someone unseen may seem strange to those who do not know God, but when people become God’s children this strangeness soon dies off. If we begin our regular prayer times by reading the bible, our prayers will have more freshness and meaning. Prayer will be a response to what they learn from God through the bible.
In Africa precisely Nigeria, the major reason believers only pray when they go through a financial, health, family situations. Many will only pray when they have a bad dream – Night maar. We will naturally see prayer as a strenuous work if we haven’t gotten much of the Word of God in our spirit.
One of the major reason why we believers have a had time with prayer is because of the scarcity of the word of God in our heart. Prayer is suppose to be our response to God's God and so when don't read the bible, it shows in the way we pray.
Believers no longer enjoy prayers because they no longer enjoy studying the bible. While we study God's word, we are sowing seeds of the word into our hearts and when we pray, we water the seed for productivity. The very first proof that you understand the word of is that you pray. Remember i said that the word of God is a seed sown in our hearts that is expected to germinate and when you don't pray, the seed is not water to grow.
If after studying the bible, a person didn't pray it means the person never understood what he/she was studying about because every time we give ourselves to the word of God, it should spark in Our hearts the longing to pray. No believer can be well grounded in the faith if he/she doesn't value prayers.