"Why is prayer necessary?"

"I think it's interesting that in the church today so many of us ask:
'Why is prayer necessary?'
You know why I think we ask that question?
Because you don't need prayer when you're watching TV...
We don't need prayer when we're mindlessly surfing the internet...
When there's nothing at stake in your walk with Christ...
When there's no risk in Christianity...
When Christianity consists of monotonous motions of routine day in and day out...
You don't need prayer for that. You can do that on your own.

But when you risk everything to glorify Jesus Christ... You need prayer.
When you sacrifice your possessions and your dreams,
And your hopes and your career,
And you lay it all on the line,
And you stake your reputation down on your allegiance to Christ... You need prayer.

When your longing day-in and day-out is to lead people to faith in Christ...
You need prayer.
You rely on prayer.
You are desperate for prayer...
because you are devoted to His mission.
And when the aim of your life is to affect as many people as possible
with the gospel of Christ,
for the glory of Christ,
you will find yourself given over to prayer."

(Pastor David Platt, http://www.brookhills.org)

And today, my few but faithful blog readers... I'm preaching to myself. This message is for me.