I have noticed that the prayer forums, the public one and the private one, hasn't been as active as it once used to be.

Why is that?

Is it because we no longer consider prayer to be important?

Hi Daryl,
I believe prayer is definitely important. I pray for everyone such as family,friends, co-workers, people I don't even know

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Phillipians 4:6
Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.

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God Bless,
Will

Prayer is the food for the soul.
It breathes life into the sick and gives strength to the weary soul.
God has said in 2 Chron.7:14
7:14 If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

When down and it seems as though the whole world is sitting on your shoulders, a prayer breathed toward our Lord lifts it, like a curtain being drawn back from a window and allowing the life giving light to shine through and chase all the clouds of sorrow AND weariness away.

What other so simple activity can accomplish so much?

Even if they don't post a prayer here, just sharing concerns and needs will accomplish so much, because, when we pray for others, we get something so wonderful in return, a lifting of our own burden.

We are admonished to pray for each other, James 5:16.

I recently was reminded how much we need prayer.

We finished a "Week of Prayer" at both churches. It brought members together better than any other program ever has.

One group that met in the Chatham church realized that they needed to meet at least once a week and pray for each other and for our church.

We've tried many times to start regular prayer meetings, but now that they've seen how essential it is to meet together, it's finally taken off.

I have not been so active here because, if you can believe it, an e-mail prayer ministry by one of my members has caught much of my "kneel-down" computer time. I get 3 or 4 e-mails a day from this fellow who chocks them full of 3 or 4 requests for prayer.

I can't believe you even had to ask this question.
If there is no communication between friends ... there is no friendship.
Jesus is my best friend. I talk to him all day long.
Answered prayer strengthens belief. Praise God!!!! He love us!!!!

Hey Dru! Whom be ye addressing? What question?

Maybe Dru was addressing the original question in the first post?

Without prayer, where would we be now?

Ah sooooooo! Of course! Couldn't see the forest for that tree!

I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for prayer...I would still be utterly and hopelessly lost.

I wonder if I'd even be alive, if it hadn't been for a certain prayer God answered at one point in time. And they haven't gotten any less important since then either!

Thank you Daniel for explaining my answer. I'm sorry I didn't make that clear. (I knew what I was talking about, and thought you all would know too.HA)