Prayer Alone???

If prayer alone is what the Lord wants from those He has adopted into the Kingdom, then why should we go out on the streets like Jesus did to warm them of the impending danger of Hell? 


This Saturday night I handed a track to a young lady who immediately stated that she didn't need one because she was a Christian. I then asked her, "why not take it and give it to someone she knows"? She commented, as most who claim to be one,  that she doesn't have to because she just prays for them. ?????

Read what Charles Spurgeon had to say about it.

"If you ask God to convert souls, but you will not do anything for those souls; if you ask God to save your children, but you will not talk to them about their salvation; if you ask God to save your neighbors, and you do not distribute tracts among them, nor do anything else for them, are you not truly a hypocrite? You pray, but you refuse to do anything to affect an answer."

- Charles Spurgeon

So is Spurgeon correct? Prayer without action is hypocritical? 

What does scripture say? 

(Ezekiel 3:18-20) "When I say to the wicked, 'You will surely die,' and you do not warn him or speak out to warn the wicked from his wicked way that he may live, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but his blood I will require at your hand. If, however, you are fulfilling the royal law according to the Scripture, "YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF," you are doing well. But if you show partiality, ("Speak only to your friends & family," my comment)  you are committing sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors. "Yet if you have warned the wicked and he does not turn from his wickedness or from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but you have delivered yourself. "Again, when a righteous man turns away from his righteousness and commits iniquity, and I place an obstacle before him, he will die; since you have not warned him, he shall die in his sin, and his righteous deeds which he has done shall not be remembered; but his blood I will require at your hand.  

(James 2: 8-26) For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all. For He who said, "DO NOT COMMIT ADULTERY," also said, "DO NOT COMMIT MURDER." Now if you do not commit adultery, but do commit murder, you have become a transgressor of the law. So speak and so act as those who are to be judged by the law of liberty. For judgment will be merciless to one who has shown no mercy; mercy triumphs over judgment. 

What use is it, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but he has no works? Can that faith save him? If a brother or sister is without clothing and in need of daily food, and one of you says to them, "Go in peace, be warmed and be filled," and yet you do not give them what is necessary for their body, what use is that? Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead, being by itself. 

But someone may well say, "You have faith and I have works; show me your faith without the works, and I will show you my faith by my works." You believe that God is one. You do well; the demons also believe, and shudder. But are you willing to recognize, you foolish fellow, that faith without works is useless? Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered up Isaac his son on the altar? 

You see that faith was working with his works, and as a result of the works, faith was perfected; and the Scripture was fulfilled which says, "AND ABRAHAM BELIEVED GOD, AND IT WAS RECKONED TO HIM AS RIGHTEOUSNESS," and he was called the friend of God. 

You see that a man is justified by works and not by faith alone. In the same way, was not Rahab the harlot also justified by works when she received the messengers and sent them out by another way? For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead. 

1John 3:8  the one who practices sin is of the devil; for the devil has sinned from the beginning. The Son of God appeared for this purpose, to destroy the works of the devil. 

(Jeremiah 42:20)  For you have only deceived yourselves; for it is you who sent me to the LORD your God, saying, "Pray for us to the LORD our God; and whatever the LORD our God says, tell us so, and we will do it." (notice it didn't say just to pray)

Those who were convicted 2000 yrs ago did not have the written Word as we do today. Our Lord and Master Jesus the Christ's message has been written down for all who claim Him Lord. So we know what He expects and commands from us. 

Psalm 19:7, says the Law is perfect to use,

Mark 16:15, to GO out tell everyone, 

Acts 1:8, He tells us to be His witness, 

Acts 10:42 commands us to  solemnly to testify, 

Galatians 3:24, by sharing the Law we can bring the lost to Christ by Faith.