The Causes of Prayerlessness. Root Disorders Beneath a Withered Prayer Life - E. M. Bounds;Cyril Opoku

If prayer has weakened in your life, the real problem may be deeper than you think.

You may already know the symptoms. Prayer feels thinner than it once did. It is easier to delay, easier to rush, easier to neglect. The hidden place has become strained, inconsistent, or strangely difficult. You may feel the loss of prayer and still not know why it has happened.

That is the burden of this book.

The Causes of Prayerlessness: Root Disorders Beneath a Withered Prayer Life is written for believers, leaders, and churches who do not want to remain at the level of symptoms. This book moves beneath the visible weakness of prayer to uncover the deeper disorders that feed it. It asks why prayer becomes little, delayed, distracted, resisted, neglected, or thin. It asks what has happened in the heart, the conscience, the will, the daily life, and even the Church's understanding of prayer itself so that true prayer has grown weak.

Inside this book, you will be helped to identify the hidden roots of a withered prayer life, including cooled love for God, pride and self-sufficiency, practical unbelief, unjudged sin, diminished fear of God, crowded affections, spiritual sloth, a life built against prayer, and a reduced theology of prayer. Each chapter is Scripture-governed, spiritually searching, and written to do more than explain. It is written to bring the reader into truth before God.

This book is a serious, pastoral, and revival-minded call to deeper honesty. It is meant to help you understand not only that prayer has weakened, but why. And that matters, because prayer will not be restored in truth until the causes of its decline are brought into the light.

If Book 1 "The Faces of Prayerlessness" exposed what prayerlessness looks like, Book 2 exposes what causes it.

This book will help you:

If you are weary of treating prayerlessness as a minor inconsistency, if you know something deeper has gone wrong, and if you want God to deal truthfully with the roots beneath the surface, this book was written for you.

Because prayer does not die without a cause. And until that cause is faced before God, true prayer will not fully live again.