Personal Prayer Life seminar leader Tom Kyzer asked attendees, “If God withdrew Himself right now, would it make any difference in what happens in your church tomorrow?”
Kyzer, a North American Mission Board volunteer prayer consultant and head of Prayer Awakening Ministries, said, “I think we have become so used to not seeing the presence of God and we’ve tried to simulate it in all ways, that we don’t even realize it may not be there.”
He added that personal prayer among believers, long before they come together with others, strengthens corporate prayer and evokes the presence of God.
Prayer should be an essential component of everything, rather than another “activity.”
“Many of our churches are prayer activity churches are prayer activity churches. We’ve got all these things going on out there and when we get a chance, we’ll pray,” he said. “This is a good step but you’ve got to move beyond that to become a house of prayer…where prayers are a part of all your ministry.”
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