The Truth About Why We Don't Pray

The Truth About Why We Don't Pray

From Countryside Church | Sermon Podcast by Countryside Church

May 17, 2026

About this episode

Pastor Sam Weitman discusses the reasons behind our struggles with prayer and offers insights from Acts 4:23-31.

Most of us know we should pray more. But most of us don't. Not because we don't care — but because if we're honest, we've prayed before and it felt like nothing happened. So we quietly stopped. In this week's message, Pastor Sam Weitman walks us through Acts 4:23-31 and gets refreshingly real about that exact feeling — including his own dry season in prayer. What comes out of it isn't a guilt trip. It's actually kind of a relief. Here's what this message gets into: 🪖 The Japanese soldier who kept fighting a war for 29 years after it ended — and what that has to do with YOUR life 🇨🇳 What a Chinese pastor said to the people interrogating him that's hard to ignore 💬 Why your prayers don't have to be pretty, polished, or confident to matter 🔥 The difference between filling a room and changing a city 📖 Acts 4:23-31 On their release, Peter and John went back to their own people and reported all that the chief priests and the elders had said to them. When they heard this, they raised their voices together in prayer to God. “Sovereign Lord,” they said, “You made the heavens and the earth and the sea, and everything in them. You spoke by the Holy Spirit through the mouth of Your…

People in this episode

Host: Sam Weitman

Topics covered

  • prayer
  • spirituality
  • faith
  • Acts 4
  • overcoming doubt
  • personal testimony

Keywords

  • prayer
  • faith
  • Acts 4
  • spiritual growth
  • doubt
  • testimony
  • Christianity

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Acts 4:23-31

Places: China

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