Prayer would be easy if every time we prayed we got an immediate answer. With quick answers you would know how you did and the results. At times the answers seem to be slow in coming. And if the answer takes a while to come, prayer can be more difficult. In times like this we must deal all of the hindrances to answers. Sometimes there are blockages to getting an answer to our prayer.

In prayer, the need first and foremost is coming to understand what God will do. We have unlimited power in prayer when we pray God’s will. So we must come to understand what God wants to do. At times we have plans and goals and we think we know what we should do. If we want to be successful in prayer, we must live fully surrendered to Christ. We must live as though we were dead to our wants and desires, seeking His will. It is not my will that counts, it is His. I am not the god telling my puppet what to do, I must long for, with all of my heart and being, God’s will and way.

Now this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. And if we know that He hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we have asked of Him. 1 John 5:14-15 (NKJV) 

In addition to understanding God’s will for our prayer; the second key to breaking up blockages is to be humble before God. We humble ourselves; it is a choice. To be humble is to bow before God and His will. To be humble is to esteem others over ourselves. To be humble is to be a servant. The power of prayer comes in seeking God and walking humbly with Him.

There is much more to learning about breaking up blockages to prayer and with His training and faithfully working though our lessons, we can learn to deal with blockages to prayer and become effective in prayer.

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