When you and I pray, we always go through the One and ONLY OPERATOR.
He always answers the call, but doesn’t always put that call through for us.
This morning, we need to consider why our Operator, Jesus Christ, the Son of God, would ever have to say, “I am sorry, I can’t put that call through for you.” If you listen carefully to Him speak through His word, you will never have to hear those dreadful words again.
The rules for placing a call and being put through are VERY CLEAR right here in the COMMUNICATIONS GUIDE that Jesus, our operator, left us.
Let’s listen to Jesus in Matthew 6 and then go from cover to cover and see all the calls that won’t go through and why! So what stops and/or hinders prayers from getting through to our Heavenly Father?
1. COMPASSIONLESS PRAYING IS NOT PUT THROUGH: Proverbs 21:13 whoever shuts his ears to the cry of the poor Will also cry himself and not be heard.
2. UNCONFESSED PRAYING IS NOT PUT THROUGH: Isaiah 59:1-2 Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened, That it cannot save; Nor His ear heavy, That it cannot hear. 2 But your iniquities have separated you from your God; and your sins have hidden His face from you, So that He will not hear.
3. IDOLATROUS PRAYING IS NOT PUT THROUGH: Ezekiel 14:3 “Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their hearts, and put before them that which causes them to stumble into iniquity. Should I let Myself be inquired of at all by them?
4. UNHUMBLE PRAYING IS NOT PUT THROUGH: When prayer is hypocritical there is no response from the Lord. Matthew 6:5 “And when you pray, you shall not be like the hypocrites. For they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men. Assuredly, I say to you, they have their reward.
5. HEARTLESS PRAYING IS NOT PUT THROUGH: When prayer is mechanical there is no response from the Lord. Matthew 6:7 and when you pray, do not use vain repetitions as the heathen do. For they think that they will be heard for their many words.
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