05-18-2008 Hindrances To Prayer

Hindrances
To Prayer
“Dealing With The Prayer
Blockers In Our Lives”
Pastor John Isaacs
KingsWay Community Church
May 18, 2008
Our Core Values
Being A Praying
Community
Keeping Prayer a Priority:
Praying for God’s Kingdom to Come
and for His Will to Be Done On Earth
As It Is In Heaven.
God Commands Us To Pray
Luke 21:36
watch therefore, and pray always.
Romans 12:12
continuing steadfastly in prayer.
Ephesians 6:18
praying always with all prayers.
Colossians 4:2
continue earnestly in prayer, being vigilant in it
with thanksgiving.
God Says, “Prayer Works.”
Jeremiah 29:12-13 You will call upon
Me and go and pray to Me, and I will listen to
you.
Psalms 66:19 But certainly God has
heard me, He has attended to the voice of my
prayer.
Isaiah 30:19 He will be very gracious
unto thee at the voice of your cry.
James 5:16 The effective, fervent prayer
of a righteous man avails much.
What is
Prayer?
Interaction
With God
3 Types of Interaction
1. Petition
2. Intercession
3. Communion
10 Expressions of Prayer
1. Adoration 6. Healing
2. Thanksgiving 7. Impartation
3. Confession 8. Missional
4. Forgiveness 9. Prophetic
5. Blessing 10. Warfare
Praying
God’s Will …
Is a Spiritual
Detonator
Detonator
A device used to
detonate an explosion.
James 5:16
… The effective,
fervent prayer of a
righteous man
avails much.
James 5:16
Reversed
… The flat, unemotional,
uninspired, and lazy prayers of
a person whose heart is not
right toward God are absolutely
useless and do not accomplish
anything.
Deal With The
Prayer Blockers
1. Un-Confessed Sin
Isaiah 59:2
Your iniquities have made a
separation between you and
your God. And your sins have
hidden His face from you, so
that He does not hear.
1 Peter 3:12
For the eyes of the Lord are
upon the righteous, and His
ears attend to their prayers.
But the face of the Lord is
against those who do evil.
Psalm 66:17-18
I cried to Him with my mouth,
And he was extolled with my
tongue. If I regard iniquity in
my heart, the Lord will not
hear.
1 John 1:9
If we confess our sins, He is
faithful and just to forgive us
our sins and to cleanse us
from all unrighteousness.
Quote
Sin demands to have a man by himself. It
withdraws him from the community. The
more isolated a person is, the more
destructive will be the power of sin over
him, and the more disastrous is the
isolation. Sin wants to remain unknown. It
shuns the light. In darkness of the
unexpressed it poisons the whole being of
a person.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Deal With The
Prayer Blockers
2. Un-Repented
Disobedience
Revelation 2:5
Remember therefore from
where you have fallen; repent
and do the first works, or else I
will come to you quickly and
remove your lampstand from
its place-unless you repent.
1 John 3:21-22
Beloved, if our heart does not
condemn us, we have confidence
toward God. And whatever we
ask we receive from Him,
because we keep His
commandments and do those
things that are pleasing in His
sight.
Deal With The
Prayer Blockers
3. Un-Forgiveness
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.
Matthew 6:14-15
For if you forgive men their
trespasses, your heavenly
Father will also forgive you.
But if you do not forgive men
their trespasses, neither will
your Father forgive your
trespasses.
Quote
You cannot enter prayer
with bitterness and
come out with blessings.
4 Commitments
• I will love you, even though you have
hurt me, and I will pray for you and will
think the best of you.
• I will not use your injury to me,
against you.
• I will not talk to others about what you
did to me.
• I will treat you with respect, kindness,
and courtesy.
Deal With The
Prayer Blockers
4. Idols of the Heart

Jeremiah 11:13-14
For your gods are as many as
your cities, O Judah; and as
many as the streets of Jerusalem
are the altars you have set.
Therefore, do not pray for this
people, nor lift up a cry or prayer
for them; for I will not listen when
they call to Me because of their
disaster.
Ezekiel 14:1-8
1 Now some of the elders of
Israel came to me and sat before
me.
2 And the word of the Lord came
to me, saying,
3 "Son of man, these men have
set up their idols in their hearts,
and put before them that which
Ezekiel 14:1-8
causes them to stumble into
iniquity. Should I let Myself be
inquired of at all by them?
4 Therefore speak to them, and
say to them, 'Thus says the Lord
God: "Everyone of the house of
Israel who sets up his idols in his
heart, and puts before him what
Ezekiel 14:1-8
causes him to stumble into
iniquity, and then comes to the
prophet, I the Lord will answer
him who comes, according to the
multitude of his idols,
5 that I may seize the house of
Israel by their heart, because
they are all estranged from Me by
Ezekiel 14:1-8
their idols." '
6 Therefore say to the house of
Israel, 'Thus says the Lord God:
"Repent, turn away from your
idols, and turn your faces away
from all your abominations.
7 For anyone of the house of
Israel, or of the strangers who
Ezekiel 14:1-8
dwell in Israel, who separates
himself from Me and sets up his
idols in his heart and puts before
him what causes him to stumble
into iniquity, then comes to a
prophet to inquire of him
concerning Me, I the Lord will
answer him by Myself.
Ezekiel 14:1-8
8 I will set My face against that
man and make him a sign and a
proverb, and I will cut him off
from the midst of My people.
Then you shall know that I am
the Lord.
An “idol” is
anything that
becomes more
important to us
than God.
Question
Is there anything in my
life that I would not be
willing to give up, if God
asked me to let it go?
Deal With The
Prayer Blockers
5. Lack of Giving
Malachi 3:6-12
6 For I am the Lord, I do not change;
Therefore you are not consumed, O
sons of Jacob.
7 Yet from the days of your fathers
You have gone away from My
ordinances And have not kept them.
Return to Me, and I will return to you,"
Says the Lord of hosts."But you said,
'In what way shall we return?'
Malachi 3:6-12
8 Will a man rob God? Yet you have
robbed Me! But you say, 'In what way
have we robbed You?' In tithes and
offerings.
9 You are cursed with a curse, For
you have robbed Me, Even this whole
nation.
10 Bring all the tithes into the
storehouse, That there may be food
Malachi 3:6-12
in My house, And try Me now in this,
Says the Lord of hosts, "If I will not
open for you the windows of heaven
And pour out for you such blessing
That there will not be room enough to
receive it.
11 And I will rebuke the devourer for
your sakes, So that he will not destroy
the fruit of your ground,
Malachi 3:6-12
Nor shall the vine fail to bear fruit for
you in the field," Says the Lord of
hosts;
12 And all nations will call you
blessed, For you will be a delightful
land," Says the Lord of hosts.
Proverbs 21:13
He who shuts his ear to the
cry of the poor will also cry
himself and not be
answered.
Deal With The
Prayer Blockers
6. Marital Discord
1 Peter 3:7
You husbands likewise, live with
your wives in an understanding
way, as with a weaker vessel,
since she is a woman; and grant
her honor as a fellow heir of the
grace of life, so that your prayers
may not be hindered.
Deal With The
Prayer Blockers
7. Indifference
Quote
Indifference is the greatest immorality, for
it consumes our society. Paul talks about
the great virtues of faith, hope and love
with the greatest being love, one might
say that the opposite of these are greed,
hypocrisy and indifference - indifference
being the greatest antithesis of love.
- Unknown
Quote
“The goal is not wickedness but
indifference.” He cautions his nephew to
keep the prospect, the patient,
comfortable at all costs. “If he should
become concerned about anything of
importance, encourage him to think about
his luncheon plans. … I will always see to
it that there are bad people. Your job is to
provide me with people who do not care.”
- C.S. Lewis (Screwtape Letters)
Luke 18:1-8
1 Then He spoke a parable to
them, that men always ought to
pray and not lose heart,
2 saying: "There was in a certain
city a judge who did not fear God
nor regard man.
3 Now there was a widow in that
city; and she came to him,
Luke 18:1-8
saying, 'Get justice for me from
my adversary.'
4 And he would not for a while;
but afterward he said within
himself, 'Though I do not fear
God nor regard man,
5 yet because this widow
troubles me I will avenge her,
Luke 18:1-8
lest by her continual coming she
weary me.'
6 Then the Lord said, "Hear what
the unjust judge said.
7 And shall God not avenge His
own elect who cry out day and
night to Him, though He bears
long with them?
Luke 18:1-8
8 I tell you that He will avenge
them speedily. Nevertheless,
when the Son of Man comes, will
He really find faith on the earth?"
Indifference
Apathy demonstrated by an
absence of emotional reactions:
the trait of lacking enthusiasm for
or interest in things generally: the
trait of remaining calm and
seeming not to care; a casual lack
of concern.
James 5:16
… The effective,
fervent prayer of a
righteous man
avails much.
Deal With
Your Prayer
Blockers
7 Prayer Blockers
• Un-Confessed Sin
• Un-Repentant Disobedience
• Un-Forgiveness
• Idols of the Heart
• Lack of Giving
• Marital Discord
• Indifference
A
Prayer
Structure
A Adoration & Praise
S Sins Confessed
K Know You Are Forgiven
F Forgive All Others

O Offer Up Your Petitions
R Request God’s Will Be Done
I Intimidate The Enemy

T Thanksgiving & Praise

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