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October 24
THAT YOUR PRAYERS BE NOT HINDERED – PART 3

Scripture: Isaiah 59:1, 2 “Behold the Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither His ear heavy that it cannot hear.  But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid His face from you, that He will not hear.”

    “Sin hinders prayer.  Many a man prays and prays and prays, and gets absolutely no answer to his prayer. Perhaps he is tempted to think that it is not the will of God to answer, or he may think that the days when God answered prayer, if He ever did, are over.  So the Israelites seem to have thought. 
    … ‘but there is a hindrance.  That hindrance is your own sins.  Your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid His face from you that He will not hear.’
    “Anyone who finds his prayers ineffective should … go alone with God with the Psalmist’s prayer, “Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:  and see if there be any wicked way in me.”  (Psalm 139:23, 24) and wait before Him until He puts His finger upon the thing that is displeasing in His sight.  Then this sin should be confessed and put away.”   
     In commenting on this verse, Dr. Lee says:  “That means regard given to what is sinful in God’s sight, whether it be many things or just one thing.  So long as there is any known sin or sins in any form in our hearts, a sin or sins which we have not forsaken, such will act as a barrier between us and God whether the sin be just one or many.”  
    “Sin is an awful thing, and one of the most awful things about it is the way it hinders prayer, the way it severs the connection between us and the source of all grace and power and blessings.”
   We must search our hearts and ask God to cleanse us from all sin.  If we are to have power in prayer and have our prayers answered, we must have all of our sins confessed.