If You Knew Him, You Would Ask

Talk to Christians about why they don’t pray as much as they want or think they should, and you’ll hear a familiar set of reasons.Busyness and distraction. Our schedules crowd out prayer.Then there’s guilt and inadequacy: I don’t know how to pray well, so I guess I’m not very good at it.Spiritual dryness and the absence of immediate payoff: I don’t feel closer to God when I pray, and many of my prayers seem to go unanswered.And, of course, self-sufficiency. We don’t pray because we don’t feel we