The Power of Prayer - Removing the Roadblocks to Answered Prayer, Part 1

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 Co ...