The Power of Prayer - Removing the Roadblocks to Answered Prayer, Part 1
Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram Daily Podcast
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🗓️ 1 October 2024
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Summary
Do you ever pray and feel like your prayers are going nowhere? Like there’s some kind of barrier between you and God? Maybe you wonder why other people seem to get answers to their prayers and you don’t. Chip shares some personal experiences with spiritual roadblocks, and God’s step by step instructions for how to remove them.
Main Points"Roadblocks" are anything (known or unknown) that hinder our prayers from being answered.
Roadblock #1: Prayerlessness – we fail to ask. -James 4:2
Roadblock #2: Wrong motives – we ask selfishly. - James 4:3; John 14:13
Roadblock #3: Sin in the heart or life. - Isaiah 59:1-3; Psalm 66:18
Roadblock #4: An unforgiving spirit. -Mark 11:24-25
Roadblock #5: A wrong treatment of our mate. -1 Peter 3:7-9
Roadblock #6: Stinginess in our giving. -Proverbs 21:13; 2 Corinthians 9:6-8
Broadcast Resource Additional Resource Mentions About Chip IngramChip Ingram’s passion is helping Christians really live like Christians. As a pastor, author, and teacher for more than three decades, Chip has helped believers around the world move from spiritual spectators to healthy, authentic disciples of Jesus by living out God’s truth in their lives and relationships in transformational ways.
About Living on the EdgeLiving on the Edge exists to help Christians live like Christians. Established in 1995 as the radio ministry of pastor and author Chip Ingram, God has since grown it into a global discipleship ministry. Living on the Edge provides Biblical teaching and discipleship resources that challenge and equip spiritually hungry Christians all over the world to become mature disciples of Jesus.
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| 0:00.0 | Roadblocks. They stop you from getting where you want to go. Now we usually think |
| 0:06.5 | about roadblocks on city streets, but did you ever ponder it's possible to have roadblocks |
| 0:11.7 | in your prayer life too. |
| 0:13.0 | You see, there are things that get in the way |
| 0:16.0 | of our prayers getting through |
| 0:18.0 | and us experiencing God's answers. |
| 0:20.0 | Today we're going to talk about the first three roadblocks that keep our prayers from God's ears. |
| 0:25.0 | Stay with me. |
| 0:27.0 | Thanks for listening to this edition of Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram. |
| 0:35.0 | Living on the Edge is an international teaching and discipleship ministry focused on helping Christians live like Christians. |
| 0:42.0 | While we're in the middle of our series, The Power of Pray helping Christians live like Christians. |
| 0:42.8 | Over in the middle of our series, the power of prayer, |
| 0:45.5 | as Chip continues helping us build or rebuild |
| 0:48.2 | meaningful intimacy with God through prayer. |
| 0:51.1 | In this program, he'll identify the common obstacles to healthy communication |
| 0:55.2 | with God and explain how we can break through him. |
| 0:58.5 | And be sure to stick around after this talk as Chip shares some additional insights and application for you to think about. |
| 1:04.1 | You won't want to miss it. |
| 1:06.1 | Well, if you're ready, here's Chip now with his message, Removing the Roadblocks to |
| 1:09.8 | answered prayer. |
| 1:11.2 | Here's the question we want to ask an answer today. |
| 1:15.0 | Why is it that so oftentimes when you pray and when I pray, |
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