Prayer must always be the distinctive feature of the house of God. When we make prayer a priority, we are telling God that we totally depend on him. We need his interventions and the manifestation of his presence and power. Without prayer we start trusting in our own ability and resourcefulness, and as we begin to trust in human skills and organising expertise, we lose the glory of God. By his own example, Jesus taught his disciples that prayer was crucial. They would have yielded to the demands