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When you pray for something over and over again and you wonder why your prayers aren't answered

in the affirmative, you ask why is that?

Well, here's one option, is you have an idol in your heart.

Today on a new beginning, Pastor Greg Lawry offers his practical

help with our prayer lives, a warning about idols that are a substitute for God.

An idol.

Is anyone or anything that takes a place of the true and living God in your life?

That's why it can bring our prayer life to a hall.

This is the day when the lost are found.

This is the day of a moment again.

Amazing grace, how sweet the snow.

But can you get a homey angel from the night?

This is the day when life begins.

Prayer is a privilege.

God invites us to pray with boldness.

He invites us to seek, ask and not.

But sometimes our prayers can be derailed.

Today on a new beginning, Pastor Greg Lawry helps us investigate those factors that can keep

our prayers from reaching God's throne.

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