Do My Sins Hinder My Prayers?

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🗓️ 8 February 2021

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Peter tells us that a husband’s prayers are hindered if he dishonors his wife. Is this just a marriage principle, or does sin always obstruct our prayers?

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0:00.0	Do all of our sins hinder our prayers?
0:08.4	Today we address a really great listener email.
0:10.5	Here it is.
0:11.5	Hello, Pastor John.
0:12.5	Thank you for this podcast.
0:14.0	My name is Ryan.
0:15.5	The Bible says dishonoring a wife will hinder a husband's prayer.
0:20.3	We see this in 1 Peter 3 verse 7.
0:23.3	Is this a particular dynamic for marriage only or is this part of a larger principle of
0:29.1	sin?
0:30.1	Do all of our sins hinder the effectiveness of our prayers?
0:35.7	The answer to the first question is no.
0:38.6	Namely, is this a particular dynamic for marriage only?
0:44.5	No.
0:45.5	And we'll see why just a minute.
0:47.5	The answer to the second question is not necessarily.
0:52.8	Do all of our sins hinder the effectiveness of our prayers?
0:59.7	Not necessarily first, because God in His mercy may show a special grace by answering
1:09.0	a prayer in spite of some of our sins?
1:12.8	While in other times, He may show a disciplinary grace by withholding an answer to prayer.
1:20.6	If God correlated the answers to our prayers precisely to our sins, we wouldn't get any
1:27.9	answers to prayer.
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