Blocked Prayers | Audio Reading | Our Daily Bread Devotional | July 8, 2021
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🗓️ 8 July 2021
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to today's encouragement from Our Daily Bread. |
| 0:08.0 | Today's reading titled Blocked Prayers was written by Dave Brannon. |
| 0:14.0 | For 14 years, the Mars rover opportunity faithfully communicated with the people at NASA's jet propulsion |
| 0:23.1 | laboratory. After it landed in 2004, it traversed 28 miles of the Martian surface, took |
| 0:30.1 | thousands of images, and analyzed many materials. But in 2018, communication between opportunity and scientists ended when a major dust storm coated its solar panels, causing the rover to lose power. |
| 0:45.3 | Is it possible that we can allow dust to block our communication with someone outside of our world? |
| 0:53.0 | When it comes to prayer, communicating with God, |
| 0:55.9 | there are certain things that can get in the way. |
| 0:59.4 | Psalm 66 says that sin can block our relationship with God. |
| 1:04.1 | If I had cherished sin in my heart, the Lord would not have listened. |
| 1:09.0 | Jesus instructs in Mark 11, when you stand praying, if you hold |
| 1:13.5 | anything against anyone, forgive them so that your father in heaven may forgive you your sins. |
| 1:21.2 | Our communication with God can also be hindered by doubt and relationship problems. |
| 1:27.9 | Opportunities blockage of communication seems to be permanent, but our prayers don't have to be |
| 1:34.5 | blocked. By the work of the Holy Spirit, God lovingly draws us to restored communication |
| 1:40.5 | with Him. As we confess our sins and turn to him, by God's grace, we |
| 1:46.8 | experience the greatest communication the universe has ever known, one to one prayer between |
| 1:53.6 | us and our holy God. |
| 2:09.7 | Our script. Our scripture reading today is from Mark chapter 11, verses 20 through 25. |
| 2:15.6 | In the morning, as they went along, they saw the fig tree withered from the roots. |
| 2:18.1 | Peter remembered and said to Jesus, Rabbi, look, the fig tree withered from the roots. Peter remembered and said to Jesus, |
| 2:24.7 | Rabbi, look, the fig tree you cursed has withered. Have faith in God, Jesus answered. |
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