Are your prayer meetings a little lacklustre? Here is one potential reason why.
Not regularly starting on time.
People make adjustments and arrangements to attend a prayer meeting. If you start late, the following assumptions are made:
You do not respect other people’s time.
You do not respect what you are meeting about.
You are unconcerned about the opinions of those who are attending. If you do not value them enough to be ready and set a good example, do not be surprised when you see people coming in late or eventually not at all. They did already learn from your example.