 When you neglect prayer and you begin your day and you go on without it, you're pointing your finger right in the Holy Spirit's face and you're saying, I don't need you today. When you neglect the Word, you're pointing your finger right in the Holy Spirit's face and you're saying, I don't care what you have to say. I don't care about your opinion. I can rely on my own opinion. I can trust my own understanding. I can trust in my own wisdom. That is what prayerlessness is. That is what a lack of the Word of God is. It's a lack of dependency on the person of the Holy Spirit. When we pray, when we read the Word, when we call for his help, when we're tempted, when we call on him for his wisdom, when we ask him for guidance and consultation, we are actively depending upon him. Prayer is the activity of depending on the Holy Spirit. And if I don't pray, if I don't read the Word, if I don't involve him, I'm not depending on him.