1 Peter 3:7 reads, “Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker vessel and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers.” Considering their obligations to each other, Paul tells wives to be…
Another class of people whose prayers the Lord will not hear is the selfish heart who prays with the impure motive of gratifying lustful pleasures of the flesh. James 4:3 reads, “You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions.” The King James translates it, “…that ye may…
Another reason why our requests in prayers are not granted is that we don’t believe that He will do for us what we request. Now, this does not imply that we will always grant our requests if we do believe. It only means that He will not grant them if we do not believe that…
Another condition of the heart that will hinder prayer and will cause God to not hear is when a person seeks forgiveness while refusing to forgive another. Jesus taught, “For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you, but if you do not forgive others their trespasses, neither will your…
The prayer of the self-righteous is not heard. When Jesus taught the disciples that they ought always to pray and not faint (Luke 18:1-8), he gave them a parable of the two men who went to the temple to pray (Lk. 18:9-14). The Pharisee, who trusted in himself that he was righteous set all others…
Isaiah 59:1-2 reads, “Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear: But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear. Chapter fifty-eight and verses six through nine describes the…
We might be surprised how many different answers we would hear to this question. Yet, it seems to go without saying that if God is our Father and we have been reared by earthly parents who did not always give us what we ask, we would never question whether they love us. Equally obvious is…
I’ve observed that the more we become like Jesus the more we pray for others. He prayed for Peter, who was Satan’s target, that his faith not fail (Luke 22:31-32). In John 17, he prayed for his apostles and all of those believers who accepted Him through the work of the apostles. He prayed for…
Paul wrote in 1 Timothy 2:1-2, “Therefore I exhort first of all that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men, for kings and all who are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and reverence” (NKJV). The phrase “all men” or “all” must…
I wish to look at two examples of prayer in the life of the early saints during crisis situations. The first is the prayer of the saints is Mary’s house. Peter was in Jail with the certain intention of Herod to put him to death (Acts 12:1-4). But, they prayed earnestly for him (12:5). James…