Prayer is one of the most essential pieces of tactical gear a spiritual warrior can equip. And even if you see yourself merely as cannon fodder, that’s no reason not to pray.
Case in point: just as I was making plans to get together with a couple friends for some essential prayer time in a couple weeks, I got a call from the guy who suggested it and found out his wife was in the ER and needed prayer for her health, like, right now.
While things turned out OK, I have seen too many occasions where, due to lack of prayer, things haven’t always turned out quite as well. I’m glad we all started to plan a prayer get-together; if we hadn’t already been talking about it, who knows if he’d have called with the immediate prayer need? I suspect he might have… but making those plans certainly kept it at the forefront of his mind.
Without prayer, we eventually feel powerless because we’re cut off from the source of all power: Adonai. Prayer is essential in the life of any believer.
