“CAN YOU HEAR ME,
GOD?”
(HINDERANCES TO PRAYER)
1. PRIDE / SELF-RIGHTEOUSNESS
(Luke 19:9-14) “Two men went up into the temple to pray…
This man went down to his house justified rather than the other.”
2. (Prov. 21:13) “WHOSO STOPPETH HIS EARS at
the cry of the poor shall not be heard”
3. WILLFUL SIN / DISOBEDIENCE
(Isa. 59:1-2) “… your
sins have hid His face from you, that He will not hear.”
(Prov. 28:9) “He that turneth away his ear from
hearing the law… prayer abomination”
(Prov. 15:29) “The Lord is far from the wicked, but He heareth
the prayer of the righteous”
(Psalm 66:18) “If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me”
(1 Peter 3:12) “… the face of the Lord is against them that do evil”
4. DOUBT
(James 1:5-8) “… let
him ask of God … nothing doubting …”
(Heb. 4:16; Eph. 3:20)
5. FAILURE TO ASK
(James 4:2) “Ye have not, because
ye ask not”
(Matt. 7:7-8; Philp.
4:6)
6. SELFISHNESS
(James 4:3) “Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it with your lusts”
7. UNFORGIVING ATTITUDE
(Matt. 6:14-15) “… if ye forgive not men … neither will your Father forgive your trespasses”
8. NEGLECT / DO NOTHING
(Col. 4;2)
“Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving”
(Matt. 26:41) “Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation …”
9. FAMILY RELATIONSHIP
(1 Peter 3:7) “… that your prayers be not hindered”
10. LACK
OF PERSISTENCE
(Luke 11:5-8)
11. TO
BE SEEN BY OTHERS / VAIN REPETITIONS
(Matt. 6:5, 7)