At our 5-hour prayer meeting, Overturn, Pastor Nelson shared a powerful charge on Hindrances to prayer:
1. Selfish Motives – Praying with self-centered desires places us at the center instead of God.
2. Unbelief – God gives freely, but we must ask in faith. The issue isn’t His giving, but our receiving.
3. Under-Praying / Spiritual Warfare – Like Elijah and Jesus, we must persist in prayer. Don’t quit too soon.
4. Sin – God accepts the man before the sacrifice. Cain’s offering lacked what Abel’s had—purity. Don’t come before God with strife or unrepentant sin.
Prayer is not time wasted, but time invested.