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Prey is a hunted food. If you're a delicious-looking, great future, watch your back! You can be a prey  for all if you don't Pray. Prey can also mean a man hunted by situation and environmental factors, or ridicule, by another person. Don't be a food. 

God has made it very clear that our first priority is to spend time with Him before we are sent out to minister (Mark 3:14). The apostle Paul also implores all believers to pray without ceasing (1 Thessalonians 5:17). 

Be a Hunter not a Prey

Scripture teaches that making time for God is not “an added extra” to our life, it is a profound necessity. People are not saving time by neglecting their spiritual life, quite the reverse;  it is an invitation to all sorts of problems which may take months  or years of effort to resolve if indeed they can be at all. The old phrase “A stitch in time saves nine” truly has a spiritual application. Making time for our relationship  with God is the most important thing we do, it is the deciding factor as to who has God in their life and who hasn’t. God is the most important thing we do, it is the deciding  factor as to who has God in their life and who hasn’t'. 
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"If you don't pray you will become a prey to to all"

Conversation with God

is anyone among you suffering? He should pray. Is anyone cheerful? He should sing praises. Is anyone among you sick? He should call for the elders of the church, and they are to pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. The prayer of faith will save the sick person, and the Lord will raise him up; if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven. Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is very powerful in its effect (James 5:13-16).

So goes the great exhortation from James to pray. There is no occasion that is not right to pray – pray in sickness. Pray in health. Pray in joy. Pray in sorrow. Pray again and again. As Paul would write to the Thessalonians:

 WHY IT IS DANGEROUS NOT TO PRAY

1. It is a sin not to pray because the Bible expressly calls it a sin. 1 Samuel 12:23 tells us this, and not to pray is to commit sin because the Bible, which is inspired, says it is.

2. It is a sin not to pray because it is right to pray. Read Luke 18:1 and then compare 1 Thessalonians 5:17; Ephesians 6:18. If it is right and necessary to pray, it is wrong not to (James 4:17). There are two kinds of sin, sins of commission and sins of omission.

3. It is a sin not to pray because when a Christian does not pray it is a reproach to God (Romans 14:23). It is pure unbelief not to pray (Hebrews 11:6). What a reproach it is to a father when a child does not trust him! Unbelief is a besetting sin which we are to lay aside and we must “fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith” (Hebrews 12:1-2).

4. It is a sin not to pray because of all the encouragements that are given to us to pray. The Bible urges us to pray. God gives us promises, examples of men and women who have prayed and who have received answers to their prayers, and in addition to this we have a great Partner in prayer (Romans 8:26). Then, we have our own personal experiences of prayer to encourage us and still further we have the testimonies of others. If we do not pray we are left without excuse!

The word 

5. It is a sin not to pray because of all that prayer can accomplish. Go through your Bible and make a list of things recorded there that happened in answer to prayer. Because prayer can accomplish so much it is a sin not to pray, for by not praying we are damming up the channels through which mighty blessings could and should be flowing. When we do not pray we deprive the world, the Church and our own lives of blessing.

6. It is a sin not to pray because prayerlessness leaves the door open for all other sins (Matthew 6:13; 26:41; Luke 22:40). It was John Bunyan who said, ‘Prayer will make a man cease from sin, as sin will entice a man to cease from prayer’. Someone else has said, ‘For the Christian, prayerlessness is identical with backsliding.’ What are the sins that are defeating us? Would it be true to say that the main reason for our failure to get victory over these sins is our lack of prayer?


7. It is a sin not to pray because the root cause of all our deficiency and lack of spirituality is just this. Why are we so weak, anaemic and ineffective in our Christian living and service? Why is the Church powerless? Why is there so much effort with so few results? Is it not that God’s people are neglecting the great privilege and responsibility of prayer?

Pray don't be a prey

Rejoice always, pray constantly, give thanks in everything; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus (1 Thess. 5:16-18).
If you don't pray always; you have exposed yourself to any arrow of the enemy. 

“ A Prayerless man is vulnerable”

Thank you.