A speaker challenges you to pray for an hour straight and describes what happens: your mind fights back, seeking distractions and escape. That resistance, he argues, shows how much your flesh resists the spiritual discipline of sustained prayer.
You wanna see how strong your flesh is? I'll give you a little test here. Go try to pray for an hour. Look at how your flesh fights you to get out of there. Watch the activity that begins to look for a distraction. Watch the pull of the flesh. Your flesh starts to squirm. You get agitated. You wanna get out of that situation and into something more entertaining. That's your flesh fighting its own death because prayer is the death of the flesh.
