Are there things that interrupt prayer?
Are there prayers that God doesn’t hear?
Is it useless to pray sometimes?
Read and think about the verses listed below. God goes out of His way to tells us about our prayer life which means He wants us to have a successful prayer relationship with Him.
What do you need to change to make your prayers effective?
Get alone, quiet yourself and ask God.
Jeremiah 29:13
2 Chronicles 7:13-14
“When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command locusts to devour the land or send a plague among my people, If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
1 Peter 3:7
Likewise, husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor to the woman as the weaker vessel, since they are heirs with you[a] of the grace of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered
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Isaiah 59:2
But your iniquities have built barriers between you and your God, and your sins have hidden His face from you, so that He will not hear.
1 John 5:14
This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.
Proverbs 59:2
The LORD is far from the wicked, but he hears the prayer of the righteous.
Luke 6:12
One of those days Jesus went out to a mountainside to pray, and spent the night praying to God.
1 Thessolonians 5:17
pray continually
James 4:3
When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.
1 John 1:9
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.
James 5:16
Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective.
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"How Should I Pray?"