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[Devotional] IN HIS PRESENCE: Increase comes from God

[Devotional] IN HIS PRESENCE: Hindrances to receiving answers to your prayers (1)

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Oke Chinye
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Read: JAMES 4:1-6

Meditation verse:

“You ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on  your pleasures” (James 4:3).

A hindrance is a thing that provides resistance, delay or obstruction to  something or someone. There are many things that hinder us from receiving the  answers we desire when we pray. 

  1. WRONG MOTIVES OR PRAYING AMISS. 1 John 5:14 says “now this is the  confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His  will, He hears us”. James 4:3 says, “You ask and do not receive, because  you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your pleasures”. God will not  answer your prayers if your motives are outside His will. And how can you  tell if your motives are right? Let the word of God and your conscience be  your mirror. Psalm 119:105 says, “Your word is a lamp to my feet and a  light to my path”. 1 John 3:20 says, “for if our heart condemns us, God is  greater than our heart, and knows all things”. 
  2. LACK OF FAITH: “Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence  of things not seen” (Hebrews 11:1) Mark 11:24 says “whatever you ask for  in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours”. Hebrews  11:6 says “but without faith, it is impossible to please Him, for he who  comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those  who diligently seek Him. Doubt is the opposite of faith and here’s what  the bible says about it, “but let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for he  who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind. For let  not that man suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord; he is a  double-minded man, unstable in all his ways” (James 1:6-8). 

3. RELYING ON THE ARM OF FLESH: Psalm 147:10 says, “God does not  delight in the strength of the horse. He takes no pleasure in the legs of a  man”. Psalm 20:7-9 says, “some trust in chariots and some in horses; but  we will remember the name of the Lord our God. They have bowed down  and fallen; but we have risen and stand upright. Trusting man to the  exclusion of God is a losing strategy for success. The arm of flesh will  always fail you.

 

IN HIS PRESENCE is written by Pst (Mrs) Oke Chinye, Founder of The Rock Teaching Ministry (TRTM).

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