Prayerlessnes - Lord help my unbelief

I came across a very difficult sermon on prayerlessness by Jonathan Edwards. (You can read the entire sermon online here.)

Edwards describes in incredible detail and insight how we get excited toward prayer, make a good show at private and secret prayers for some time, but then slowly begin to drift off toward prayerlessness.

The painful part in all of this is that it is a sermon on hypocrisy. Edwards is arguing from Job 27:10 that those of us who only make a brief show in prayer are nothing more than religious hypocrites. I thought this was appropriate as we've just finished a three-week series on religious hypocrisy.

If you need to have your heart stirred toward prayer, do your soul a favor and read this sermon (at least read as much as you can).