So I often hear Christians say that they pray and their prayers don't work.

They're not getting results. It's like a diet plan or something.

You know, I've been doing it. I'm just I'm just not shedding the pounds. I don't know what's wrong.

I have no doubt complaint about this in the past myself and the problem is that people become

discouraged from prayer because they perceive that it's not having the desired effect and then they stop doing it.

And that's how you end up with a body of believers in America who don't pray.

We have an unpraying Christianity in America and it shows the statistics that I've read.

I don't know if they're true or not, but they sound true. It's probably true.

I've read that the average Christian spends significantly less than 10 minutes a day praying.

I've also read that the number is actually about one minute a day that the average Christian spends in prayer.

And that's pretty bad, especially when you consider that the average person spends five hours a day watching TV,

which I don't know. I mean, that's mind-boggling. How do you find five hours in the day to sit on a couch and just stare at a screen?

How could you possibly carve out that much time? And how do you not get bored?

But anyway, five hours a day watching TV, several more hours a day staring at computer screens and phones.

It's for wasting a lot of time. And yet we say, I don't know, I just can't find the time to pray.

I can't find it in my schedule. I've got my schedule right here from about 7pm until 1am. I'm going to be watching TV.

Can't do anything about that. I mean, that's, you know, I've had that scheduled for weeks now.

So I thought it would be a good thing maybe to talk about prayer and to talk about why our prayers may not be working,

why they may not be answered from our perspective. And here's just a few points about a few points about prayer.

The first thing that I think we should understand is that God does answer every prayer said to Him.

But the crucial thing there is that qualifier said to Him. If we pray to somebody else that's not Him,

then He's not necessarily going to answer that prayer.

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