Praying while sinning is not prayer; it’s called self-deceiving

“Praying while sinning is not prayer; it’s called self-deceiving!"  -Johnson and Pearl

“Praying while sinning is not prayer; it’s called “talking to yourself!"  -Johnson and Pearl

Luke 18:9-14 NKJV 

The Parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector

9 Also He spoke this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others:

10 “Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector.

11 The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself(he is just talking to himself), ‘God, I thank You that I am not like other men—extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this tax collector.

12 I fast twice a week; I give tithes of all that I possess.’
13 And the tax collector, standing afar off, would not so much as raise his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me a sinner!’
14 I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.”

“Almost every natural man that hears of hell flatters himself that he shall escape it.” －Jonathan Edwards

“False Christians pray and miss because they ask amiss. (James 4:3)
Carnal Christians do pray but they pray very little. 
Christians that hunger for God and revival pray alot, but somehow feel they don’t pray enough!"  －Johnson and Pearl

James 4:2-4 New King James Version
2 You lust and do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain. You fight and war. Yet you do not have because you do not ask.
3 You ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your pleasures.
4 Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

“All professed prayer is an abomination if it is not offered in a state of entire consecration of all that we have and are to God.”  －Charles Finney

“Prayer is not true prayer until one has truly repented, been born again, died to his selfish will, and starting asking for God’s will to be done on earth.”   －Johnson and Pearl

“How much you pray shows how much you depend on God.” －unknown

“Those that depend on God alot pray alot.  Those that depend on God a little, pray a little.  Those that don’t depend on God don’t pray at all.”   －Johnson and Pearl

What is the pure gospel of Jesus Christ? 
https://repent-pray-revival.org/2020/06/09/what-is-the-pure-gospel-of-jesus-christ-2/

“True and False Christian Test”  
https://repent-pray-revival.org/2020/07/09/true-and-false-christian-test/

 What is true revival? 
https://repent-pray-revival.org/2020/06/15/what-is-true-revival-2/

Revival is the highest kind of Christianity
https://repent-pray-revival.org/2022/01/21/revival-is-the-highest-kind-of-christianity-2/

Today, over 90% of churches are NOT preaching the pure and real gospel
https://repent-pray-revival.org/2021/12/01/today-over-90-of-churches-are-not-preaching-the-pure-gospel-of-jesus-christ/