5 Questions to Assess Your Prayer Motives

For the Gospel Podcast

Costi Hinn

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🗓️ 25 July 2022

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

There are many things that a Christian can and should pray for in this life. A short list may include: safety, healing, job promotions, priority registration for your kids, help with your business, good grades in school, or favor with some situation you are facing. None of these things are wrong to pray for, but if you had a scale and could weigh the motives of those prayers, would a focus on the gospel and your spiritual growth factor in? The Scriptures give us a picture of prayer that is less “American Dream” and earthly, and is much more heavenly minded and eternal. You and I may pray for many good things, but a vibrant prayer life and solid spiritual growth is anchored by a focus on the greatest things. In this episode, Costi Hinn outlines 5 questions every Christian should ask when assessing their motives in prayer.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the For the Gospel Podcast, where we're all about providing sound doctrine
0:14.1	for everyday people.
0:15.6	I'm your host, Kosti Hind, and on today's episode, I want to provide you with five questions
0:20.5	to assess your prayer motives.
0:23.2	We all pray for many things, and that's perfectly normal, but it's so important to assess
0:28.2	our motives in prayer so that we can align our hearts with God's will.
0:34.9	Prayer is not about getting God to do what you want.
0:38.4	Prayer is about aligning your heart with what God wants.
0:42.7	I recently made a list of prayer requests that I hear regularly.
0:46.3	None of these are wrong.
0:47.3	I just want to give you a picture here in your mind.
0:49.0	We have Lord, Heal my cold, all the way to Lord, Heal my cancer.
0:54.2	Prayers for surgery, prayers for safety, job promotion, raises, priority registration for
1:00.3	kids in private school, help for your business, Lord, fix my spouse, help my kids win their
1:06.2	tournament for college students, Lord, give me good roommates, make everything go smoothly
1:12.2	in this or that situation.
1:13.8	And then here's one for your Christian dictionary, we brought this up recently in our church.
1:17.8	Somebody prayed for traveling mercies.
1:20.9	That is a Christian ease phrase for, Lord, please help there be no problems on my trip.
1:29.2	If you have watched the news lately, you could pray for traveling mercies.
1:32.5	I think you ought to pray for traveling mercies.
1:34.7	You could pray for them all you want and it might not help.
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