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For those of you that know me real well this is not news to you but to those of you who don’t you might find this interesting.  I have a documented breathing problem, it is like asthma or emphysema but is brought different in that it is only brought on by the lack of cell phone signal.    Whenever I am driving or in a building and I can’t get a signal I begin to breath funny and have serious complications.  Of course that is just being silly but yet it really relates to our prayer life at the same time.   Why aren’t we as Christians as particular about our “line” to God as we are about our cell phone signal?

At E3-Group tonight we talked about what can hinder your prayer life.  If you are in the group or have been to the group before and you missed it last night then you missed a blessing.  I cannot speak for everyone else but I was really touched and convicted by some of the things that we went through in the lesson; even those that I didn’t get when I prepared it.  The lesson was on prayer and some of the hindrances of our pray life.  Meaning what prevents God from hearing our prayers.  Now first let me say that God hears all of our prayers whether we are saved or lost, and scripture backs that.  But what we see in scripture is that it reminds us that if our heart are not right then God will turn His face away and choose not to listen to our prayers.  Meaning if we have disobedience, arrogance, hypocrisy, or unconfessed sin in our lives then we end up with a situation where according to scripture God turns His face from us and makes a choice not to hear our requests.

John 9:31 (Holman Christian Standard Bible)
31 We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners, but if anyone is God-fearing and does His will, He listens to him.

And I can actually handle the understanding of those with good common sense.  I mean that it makes sense to me that if you are being disobedient or not confessing known sin in your life then why should God listen to you?  But here is the one that really got my attention.   What is the state of your belief in your prayer life?  This is where I catch myself failing miserable.  I know that God is over all, and that He can master anything however I just assume sometimes that He is not going to answer based upon my life.  So I basically for lack of a better word doubt that God is going to respond to some of my prayers even though we should know that He will provide all.  Well lets define the word doubt:

Doubt:

How does that grab you?  When we pray and we assume that God is not going to do it or we go into it with any negativity in our heart that is an act of distrust towards God.  Let’s repeat that because I feel that it is that important, praying something to God out of any of any other frame of mind other than faith that He is going hear you and consider your petition is doubting God.  Does that not just put a sour taste into your mouth?  To act as if you don’t trust the creator of the universe and the Almighty God, how shameful is that!?!  Read how God responds to doubt in your prayer life:

James 1:5-7 (Holman Christian Standard Bible)
5 Now if any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives to all generously and without criticizing, and it will be given to him.  6 But let him ask in faith without doubting. For the doubter is like the surging sea, driven and tossed by the wind. 7 That person should not expect to receive anything from the Lord.

Wow…What a gut check!

I pray that we all will pray with the love and trust in our hearts that God deserves.  I pray that you would check your heart and live your life following the righteous road.

God Bless ~ Tyler

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