Misdirected prayers.<\/i> Some people turn the blessing at mealtime into a public airing of their frustrations. Others bounce their prayers off God, hoping to hit the person across the table\u2014the one they\u2019re trying to win to Christ. Don\u2019t do that. God gets enough bad press without you adding to it! Jesus said, \u2018When you pray, don\u2019t be like the play-actors.\u2019<\/i> (Matthew 6:5 PHPS)<\/p>\n
Judgmental prayers.<\/i> In one church a childless couple was praying for a baby. The prayer group arbitrarily decided the husband wasn\u2019t \u2018godly\u2019 enough to be a father, so they spent their time asking God to change him. If God gave children only to perfect parents, the human race would be extinct! The Bible says, \u2018We make this plea, not because we deserve help, but because of Your mercy.\u2019<\/i> (Daniel 9:18 NLT)<\/p>\n
Quorum-based prayers.<\/i> You think there\u2019s a better chance of getting your prayers answered if you involve a lot of people, like having a quorum at a business meeting. With God, what matters is the faith with which you pray, not the number of people. Jesus said, \u2018Whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.\u2019<\/i> (Mark 11:24 NIV) Now, when you face a situation that\u2019s too big to handle alone, it\u2019s wise to reach for someone who really knows God and can pray in agreement with you. <\/p>\n
Which raises the question: do you have prayer partners you can call on? Are you a prayer partner for someone else? If not, then begin praying for Him to send someone to come alongside you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Misdirected prayers. Some people turn the blessing at mealtime into a public airing of their frustrations. Others bounce their prayers off God, hoping to hit the person across the table\u2014the one they\u2019re trying to win to Christ. Don\u2019t do that. God gets enough bad press without you adding to it! Jesus said, \u2018When you pray, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}