"There is a popular notion that prayer is a very easy thing, a kind of common business that may be done anyhow, without care or effort. Some think that you have only to reach a book down and get through a certain number of very excellent words, and you have prayed and may put the book up again. Others suppose that to use a book is superstitious and that you ought rather to repeat extemporaneous sentences, sentences which come to your mind with a rush, like a herd of swine or a pack of hounds, and that when you have uttered them with some little attention to what you have said, you have prayed.

Now neither of these modes of prayer were adopted by ancient saints. They appear to have thought a great deal more seriously of prayer than many do nowadays. It seems to have been a mighty business with them, a long-practised exercise, in which some of them attained great eminence, and were thereby singularly blest. They reaped great harvests in the field of prayer, and found the mercy seat to be a mine of untold treasures." - Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Please make prayer a priority. Without a commitment to be a praying church, the church can never expect to be a triumphant church in terms of spiritual and numerical growth. In addition to daily prayers for Bethlehem to be the church that pleases our Lord Jesus, please use the following links to help you pray for His kingdom's work throughout the world.

http://www.sbcpray.net/home.asp