Neither prayer nor any other part of religious worship, is now under the gospel, tied unto, or made more acceptable by any place in which it is performed, or towards which it is directed; but God is to be worshipped everywhere in spirit and in truth; as in private families daily, and in secret each one by himself; so more solemnly in the public assemblies, which are not carelessly nor willfully to be neglected or forsaken, when God by his word or providence calls thereunto. (1689 LBCF 22.6)

"The world cannot hate you, but it hates Me because I bear witness about it, that its deeds are evil. (John 7:7)

A lecture on the parables of the lost sheep, coin, and prodigal son from Luke 15

But Jesus said to him, "No one, after putting his hand to the plow and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God." (Luke 9:62)

The reading of the Scriptures, preaching, and hearing the Word of God, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in our hearts to the Lord; as also the administration of baptism, and the Lord's supper, are all parts of religious worship of God, to be performed in obedience to him, with understanding, faith, reverence, and godly fear; (1689 London Baptist Confession of Faith 22:5)

Believers are encouraged to not live in fear or denial of the realities of death but to rest with faith in the sovereign will of God knowing that all things work together for our good and His glory. We are commanded to warn the lost and dying world that true and eternal life is found in Christ alone.

Prayer, with thanksgiving, being one part of natural worship, is by God required of all men. But that it may be accepted, it is to be made in the name of the Son, by the help of the Spirit, according to his will; with understanding, reverence, humility, fervency, faith, love, and perseverance; and when with others, in a known tongue. (1689 London Baptist Confession of Faith 22.3)

'Should you not also have had mercy on your fellow slave, in the same way that I had mercy on you?' (Matthew 18:33)

Faith is not a work that merits salvation but a gift from God that proves that one is really saved. When one trust in Christ alone for salvation he is resting in the eternal promise of God as declared in Scripture and can be assured that God always keeps that promise.

Did God leave all mankind to perish in the estate of sin and misery? God having out of His mere good pleasure, from all eternity elected some to everlasting life, did enter into a covenant of grace, to deliver them out of the estate sin and misery, and to bring them into an estate of salvation by a Redeemer. ~The Baptist Catechism Question 23