Commissioned to Pray

We are commissioned by Jesus to pray. Paul instructed us to pray without ceasing. Pray we must! God wants to release His power, glory and the knowledge of Him if we will just pray.
So we struggle with prayerlessness. We feel guilty; we feel ashamed,we have tried and failed our heart isn't in it. Yet we know the power that is lacking in the Church is due to prayerlessness. What are we to do?
The Blood of Jesus has set us free from all our other sins--why not the sin of prayerlessness? He will do it if we just ask and believe, if we confess our sin of prayerlessness and ask to be delivered why wouldn't the Blood of Jesus set us just as free in this area as it has in all other areas of sin.
First we must come to grips with the fact that prayerlessness is sin! It is sin because Jesus told us we are to pray, He gave us a format; He said go into your prayer closet, shut the door and pray in secret to the Father.
when the disciples asked why they lacked power to cast out a demon, Jesus said it comes with prayer and fasting.
The Church's prayerlessness goes against Jesus' commands, so it is sin. It is shunning time with God; it is attempting to serve God in our strength and power; it is prideful to think we can save souls without the power of prayer. All of this makes it a sin, all of this needs to be confessed and repented. When Jesus delivers us and softens our hearts once again, we are filled with the loved of God and are humble and able to bow the knee in prayer.
For most of the Church, it means going back to square one: recognize sin, confess sin, repent of sin, humble oneself in the sight of God; believe He will fill you with the Spirit of power.
Now there is another obstacle, the flesh has such a grip on us and is so deceived by the enemy of our soul that many believers do not even want the Spirit of prayer because of the sacrifice it requires. that is the devil lying to us in order to try to disarm us of our most powerful weapon. The flesh must be put down so that our spirit man can rise up and serve God in prayer.
There is only one road back to God--repentance!