We Need Each Other

‘Your faith will help me, and my faith will help you.’ Romans 1:12 NCV Next time you take a walk in dense bush, stop and think about what is taking place right under your feet. As the roots of the trees connect with each other they form a support system, using a...

Obstacles To Answered Prayer (6)

‘Wait for it; it will certainly come.’ Habakkuk 2:3 NIV Before leaving our study on obstacles to answered prayer, let’s be clear about one thing: some of our unanswered prayers have been answered. The answer is ‘wait’. But because we don’t like the answer, we keep...

Obstacles To Answered Prayer (5)

‘First go and be reconciled to them.’ Matthew 5:24 NIV The fifth obstacle to answered prayer is an unforgiving spirit. Your anger may feel justified, but it can produce long-term results that hurt you. Regardless of ‘who did what to whom’, resentment is hazardous to...

Obstacles To Answered Prayer (4)

‘If you remain in Me and My words remain in you, ask whatever you wish.’ John 15:7 NIV The fourth obstacle to prayer is unscriptural prayers. Jesus said, ‘If you remain in Me and My words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.’ Those who...

Obstacles To Answered Prayer (3)

‘If our hearts do not condemn us.’ 1 John 3:21 NIV The third obstacle to answered prayer is unconfessed sin. After conquering Jericho, the strongest city in the Promised Land, the Israelites were defeated by a handful of soldiers in a small village called Ai. Joshua...