After the Triumphal Entry, Jesus went to the temple.  He cleared out those who were selling and exchanging money, crying out, “My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations” (Mark 11:17).  The temple was to be a place of prayer.

Where is God’s temple today?  It is no longer a building, but the church.  As believers gather together, we are together the temple of God (see Ephesians 2:19-22, I Peter 2:4-5, etc.).  Now if God’s temple is to be a house of prayer, and we together are that temple, then we must commit to pray together as we gather. 

Is that why we gather?  To pray together?  We may gather Sundays to praise God together or study God’s Word together.  We may gather at other times to fellowship together.  But do we gather with the express purpose to pray together?  Do we think in those terms?  Do we come to pray together?