Prayer isn't optional; Luke 18 commands "always pray and not faint" because self-reliance blinds you to your incapacity, like disciples sleeping through Jesus' Gethsemane agony amid Satan's assaults. Dr. Edwards outlines three drivers: God's command (needy souls like blind Bartimaeus or the bleeding woman knew no other help); its power (James 5:16—"effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much"—as Elijah, meek Moses quenching fire, Hezekiah routing Assyrians proved ordinary believers move heaven); and temptation's danger (Matthew 26—pray or enter Satan's traps targeting your kids, home, church in these dark days). No revival skips prayer (J. Edwin Orr); stop program-chasing and intercede fiercely for protection and power.
