WHY PRAYER IS HINDERED – pt. 1
This week I will attempt to blog in five (5) parts. My goal is to reveal the reasons as to why prayer is unanswered and seemingly ineffective at times. These reasons have personally affected my family and me and have been the cause as to why I, at times, didn’t connect with God’s perfect will in my life.
Let’s begin with the “bottom line”- Wrong actions and attitudes will always cancel our prayers. The battlefield is always in the mind. Our enemies are the devil and our own flesh (unregenerate thinking). Satan’s goal is to short-circuit your prayers by tempting us to fall away from the obedience connection point of God’s will. And this happens when we “chose” to be led by our own affections and desires.
I’ve come up with 5 reasons why our prayers are hindered in our personal lives and in our churches…. Below is the first one:
- Respect and Honor Issues in marriage relationships. (For you single people – hang in there, you’re next!)
7 Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. (1 Peter 3:7)
- God established a divine order for the wife to respect her husband and the husband to honor his wife.
- A marriage between a man and a woman is the greatest example of our relationship with God. God’s so serious about it that He refers us (the church) to a “Bride” and Christ as the “Groom.” Our union in heaven will be a marriage!
- In a marriage, the two become one. And when there is no agreement in the marriage there is no vision to recognize God’s will – the “one” become two. When this happens, there is “di-vision.” God chooses to operate in an environment of agreement and unity.
- When disrespect or dishonor dominates relationships, satan has a legal right to prevent prayer. It is out-of-order and will not work.
- The solution is for husbands and wives to operate AS ONE with their hearts and minds united.
Anxious to read your thoughts,
Pastor Manny
God desires unity in all of our relationships, He just does not and cannot operate in places of disunity, it’s not in His nature. Without togetherness amongst ourselves, how can we be together with God? If we are too busy fighting, arguing, disrespecting, betraying, etc. each other, how can we expect God to even be in our midst or answer our prayers? Just like we are in unity with God we have to be in unity with each other, especially in marriages.
Thank you Pastor for your teaching on Prayer. I do not want my prayers to be hindered.
We need to be in a right mind so we can pray and be right with God. if we are not right God our prayers won’t count so than we have to be on the right past with the Lord.
This is a good lesson on prayer in comparison to marriage. Just as the two become one in marriage, we must become one with Christ too. It is all about unity.
May God deal with us on marriages and relationships so our prayters are not hindered. May we value realtionships.
We most be together in every relationships, division happens when we think only for ourselves and not on the other persons. As a church we most think about all, and not only our needs.