7 Hindrances to PRAYER
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Jer 30:17 'For I will restore you to health And I will heal you of your wounds,' declares the LORD, 'Because they have called you an outcast, saying: "It is Zion; no one cares for her."' |
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Psalm 66:18
If I regard wickedness in my heart, The Lord will not hear;
Mark 11:24 "Therefore I say to you, all things for which you pray and ask, believe that you have received them, and they will be granted you. |
James 5:16
Therefore, confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another so that you may be healed. The effective prayer of a righteous man can accomplish much.
John 20:29 Jesus said to him, "Because you have seen Me, have you believed? Blessed are they who did not see, and yet believed." |
R.A. Torrey, in his book How To Pray, listed seven hindrances to prayer that are good to check for our own prayer life:
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1. Asking with wrong motives. James 4:3. “You ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your pleasures.” Sometimes we can be praying for something that is more a selfish want than it is God’s will.
2. Unrepented sin. Isaiah 59:1-2. “Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; nor His ear heavy, that it cannot hear. But your iniquities have separated you from your God; and your sins have hidden His face from you, so that He will not hear.” If we ask God to search our hearts and show us where there is sin, He will. 3. Idolatry. Ezekiel 14:3. “Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their hearts, and put before them that which causes them to stumble into iniquity. Should I let Myself be inquired of at all by them?” It was once said that if there is something that consumes you or excites you more than God, that is idolatry. 4. Ignoring the poor. Proverbs 21:13. “Whoever shuts his ears to the cry of the poor will also cry himself and not be heard.” Sowing and reaping go hand in hand and the poor are always close to God’s heart. |
5. Unforgiveness. Mark 11:25. “And whenever you stand praying, if you have anything against anyone, forgive him, that your Father in heaven may also forgive you your trespasses.” There is no allowance for bitter roots within the temple of God.
6. A wrong relation to a husband or wife. 1 Peter 3:7. “Husbands, likewise, dwell with them with understanding, giving honor to the wife, as to the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers may not be hindered.” The wife too should obey the Word and respect her husband; most likely disobedience would hinder prayer as well. 7. Unbelief. James 1:5-7. “If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him. But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind. For let not that man suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord.” Belief and trust can be demonstrated through action and word. |
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