87 - Why do you pray?

The One Gospel Podcast · Nov 1, 2026 · 26m · transcript

In this episode of One Gospel, Johan Toet asks an important question:

Why do you pray?

Prayer can look spiritual on the outside while coming from the wrong motivation on the inside.

Through James 4, Matthew 6 and 1 John 5, Johan examines several ways prayer can lose its true purpose.

We can pray for selfish reasons.

We can pray while doubting God.

We can repeat words without really meaning them.

We can pray out of religious obligation.

And we can even pray because we want other people to notice us.

But prayer was never meant to be a performance.

Johan shares how he once believed that God’s…