A call back to the prayer closet Drawing on the writings and teachings of Leonard Ravenhill There is a question every pastor, every leader, and every believer must eventually face, and it is not comfortable: do we actually believe God answers prayer, or have we simply learned to run the church without waiting on Him? We can build excellent programs. We can fill a calendar with events, grow attendance, sharpen our preaching, polish our worship, and still be spiritually dry. Activity is not the same as anointing. A church can be busy doing things for God while quietly ceasing to spend time with God — and no one notices until the power is gone and only the machinery remains. The poverty we don't talk about One old prayer warrior put it bluntly: "Poverty-stricken as the Church is today in many things, she is most stricken here, in the place of prayer." That line stings because it is still true. We are not lacking resources, technology, or talent. We...
Tinku Thompson