Unforgiveness Hinders Prayers
Hello, welcome to another message. So today I’m going to be sharing from Mark 11:25, and the title of this message is Unforgiveness Hinders Prayers.
“And whenever you stand praying, if you have anything against anyone, forgive him, that your Father in heaven may also forgive you your trespasses.”
Forgiveness Is a Command
So it is very self-explicit. That’s what the scripture is telling you. If you have anything against anyone, forgive that person because the Lord Himself forgave you. He forgave your sins when He died on the cross. So there is no reason for you to say you’re not going to forgive someone. Forgive everyone that has caused you harm. That’s just the truth. That’s what the Bible is saying here.
If you’re praying and you’re holding grudges and unforgiveness in you, it’s going to form a barrier. I’m sure you don’t want your prayers hindered. In fact, a lot of people are struggling with that. Their prayers are being hindered because they don’t want to forgive.
What Unforgiveness Does
Unforgiveness means that you go and seek revenge. You seek revenge, and then you hate that person. Anytime you remember that person, you’re constantly hateful toward them. You don’t want to see or hear anything about that person because you hate them.
But the truth is there is no need for you to hate anyone. You can cut off from someone without hating that person. God is not saying you should tolerate abuse, so don’t mix things up. Jesus Himself said you should fight for your rights and pray for justice.
If someone is abusing you, causing a lot of harm, and the person is unrepentant and a persistent aggressor, all you need to do is go to God in prayer and leave it at the feet of Christ. Leave it for God. But it does not mean that you should take the battle into your own hands and begin to become militant against that person.
Once you begin to wish someone evil, once you become bitter toward someone, if you would do something harmful to that person if given the chance, then that is not right in the eyes of God. That’s going to hinder your prayers. That’s going to form an obstacle to your prayers.
Leave Vengeance to God
The Bible says forgive. Paul also said do not take revenge. Forgive, but leave vengeance to God. So just leave vengeance to God. God is a just God. God is going to reward everyone according to the works of their hands.
No matter what someone has done to you, don’t dwell on it. It is possible for you to let it go. Do not allow that thing to traumatize you. Give it to Christ. Cast all your burdens upon Him because He cares for you.
God is a very strong and powerful God. He knows how to avenge. The Bible says vengeance belongs to Him. So do not become bitter. Do not let evil cling to you. Leave that to God. God knows how to deal with evil people.
Look at Pharaoh. God dealt with Pharaoh. Look at Judas. Judas betrayed Christ, but Jesus still forgave him. Even while hanging on the cross, Jesus said:
“Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.”
That is how you should pray. Keep forgiving. Keep asking God to forgive people. But God will not be mocked. Even as you forgive, keep your hands clean.
Keep Your Hands Clean
Jesus said:
“The enemy is coming, but he has nothing in Me.”
Make sure the devil has nothing in you. Even while Jesus was hanging on the cross, He forgave the people who crucified Him. That is what it means to keep your hands clean.
Do not go around wishing people evil or constantly talking about those who hurt you. The more you keep talking about it, the more traumatized you become. Be quiet. Be silent. Give that burden to God because He cares for you. Surrender everything at the feet of Christ and think holy thoughts.
The Bible says whatever is pure, holy, lovely, of good report, excellent, and praiseworthy—think on those things. So if you’re constantly thinking about what someone did to you, is there anything pure or lovely about that? That’s how you give the devil an upper hand in your life.
That’s how you stop the Holy Spirit from manifesting through you. That’s how you hinder the fruits of the Spirit. So think good thoughts all the time. Make sure your mind is pure. Make sure your hands are clean.
Cry Out to God for Justice
The Bible also says we should pray to God for justice. Jesus used the persistent widow as an example. She was denied her rights. God does not want anyone to abuse or oppress you. That widow cried out to God day and night.
Learn how to cry out to God instead of constantly complaining to people about your problems. Some people do not care. Some even mock others behind their backs. So be careful.
The widow had no one, but she cried out to God. Jesus said God is the judge. He hears those who cry out to Him day and night. Praying for justice is an example of faith.
Instead of walking around bitter, resentful, and hateful, keep your hands clean. Once you begin wishing evil on someone, your hands are no longer clean spiritually. Your spirit can begin to fight that person, and that is not good.
Wisdom is this: cry out to God for justice. If something requires legal action, go to court. But do not break spiritual laws by wishing evil on people. Do not break the law of love and forgiveness.
God is the judge. Justice and righteousness are the foundations of His throne. Those who think God will never execute justice are deceiving themselves.
Do Not Be an Unforgiving Servant
So always keep your hands clean. Never allow bitterness and unforgiveness to dwell in your heart because unforgiveness defiles you. Keep away from it. Keep away from bitterness. Keep away from living in anger.
Be joyful. Thank God. Praise Him. Rejoice in Him. Walk in holiness.
Make sure you do not have unforgiveness in your heart because unforgiveness hinders prayers. Jesus already said it clearly. Be conscious of this word always.
If you walk in bitterness, vengeance, and unforgiveness, you are defeating yourself. Maybe you already have battles in life, but when you add wickedness to it, you make things worse. God sees unforgiveness as wickedness.
Remember the parable of the unforgiving servant. The servant was forgiven a great debt, yet he refused to forgive someone else. When the king heard about it, he called him a wicked servant.
So you can be a child of God and still manifest wickedness through unforgiveness. Don’t be a wicked servant. Don’t be a wicked child.
If you want to be victorious, mature, and close to God, keep away from unforgiveness. There is nothing good about it. It only destroys the person carrying it.
Forgive. Keep away from bitterness. Watch the Lord fight your battles for you.
Prayer
May the Lord Himself be upon you and help you in your daily walk with Him. May He constantly purify you, sanctify you, and give you the grace to forget the hurts of the past. May the Lord sanctify your tongue completely.
May the Lord Jesus Christ lead you every day in victory. May He fill you with truth. May He clothe you with garments of praise, righteousness, truth, light, and humility.
May the Lord Himself fight for you. May He defeat all your enemies. May the hand of God come upon you. May the fire of God cleanse you completely.
May He make you whole and heal you of every affliction. Whatever illness is upon you today, I curse that illness in the mighty name of Jesus.
May the favor of God open doors for you. May God make you complete through the blood of Jesus Christ. May the Lord be like a wall of fire around you to protect you.
As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so may the Lord surround you. May the angel of the Lord encamp around you and deliver you. May He give you great deliverance.
May the Lord bless you with wisdom, provision, favor, and new ideas. May He be your guide and your shepherd. May the Lord bless you and keep you.
In Jesus’ name I pray, Amen.
Remain blessed. Have a good day. Bye.
God Hears The Prayers Of The Righteous - All About Prayers
God Hears The Prayers Of The Righteous - All About Prayers
Prayer For Divine Favour, Open Doors & Victory Prayer – Laura Bon
May God baptise you with His fire and power for great exploits, in Jesus name, amen.
If you want to become God's untouchable, be persistent in prayer and wake up at midnight to pray.
Some witches get up at midnight to invoke the spirits of believers they want to cast spells and demons on. But many believers do not want to be spiritually disciplined and pray at midnight.
Acts 16 verse 25 says, but at midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God.
A lot of believers do not want to pay the price in Bible meditation, prayer and praise to be filled with God's word and power.
A lot of believers have thrown away their spiritual armor and weapons.
Some believers are so spiritually lazy, undisciplined, docile, and lukewarm that it is baffling.
Ignorant believers feed Satan and his demons and witches through ignorance, scantiness of the word of God and stubbornness. They also feed them through faithlessness, ingratitude, prayerlessness, and carelessness.
They ignorantly think that witches and demons are their problems, yet the problem is within them. The solution is within them. The Kingdom of God is within them.
Luke 17 verse 21 says, the kingdom of God is within you.
You are not helpless. You are not a spiritual orphan because you have the Holy Spirit, the mighty man of war.
Jesus has defeated death. Revelation 1 verse 18 says that Jesus has the keys of Hades and of Death.
All power belongs to Jesus, and nothing can happen without God's permission. It is better to submit completely to God by paying the price than to constantly blame witches, demons and Satan.
Adam blamed Eve. Eve blamed Satan. Satan did not blame anyone because he knew that he did his job successfully.
His job was to test them, and their job was to obey God and successfully resist him. They failed their spiritual tests and examinations.
Jesus passed all his spiritual tests, trials and examinations.
Hebrews 4 verse 15 says that Jesus was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin.
Make up your mind to pass all your spiritual tests, examinations and trials and win Satan.
Adam and Eve failed their spiritual test, examination and trial of faith and loyalty to God. God judged Adam and Eve.
Satan still has the same job of testing and trying human loyalty to God. He tested righteous, blameless Job, and Job passed all his spiritual examinations. Satan did not win righteous, blameless Job.
Job suffered so much when his faith was being tested, but he never accused God.
Job 1 verse 22 says, in all this Job did not sin nor charge God with wrong.
Learn how to fight spiritual war and stop shifting the blame to Satan and his witches and demons.
They are doing their job. It's a battle that God has commanded you to win, so fight by the rules and win. It is a battle between life and death, light and darkness.
But know that Jesus has defeated death for you. He died so that you can have life, power and grace in all its fullness.
Second Timothy 2 verse 5 says, if anyone competes in athletics, he is not crowned unless he competes according to the rules.
If you begin to blame Satan and witches, you are indirectly saying that you don't want to fight the spiritual battle.
You must make up your mind to win the battle. You can trample the powers of witches and demons if you pay the price.
Luke 10 verse 19 says, behold, I give you the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy.
Rise up! Wake up, great men and women of valor! Pick up all the weapons and armor of our warfare and fight! Stop sleeping spiritually.
Do not be a runaway soldier.
Stop being unconscious spiritually. Be awake in Christ. Be filled with God's word and Spirit.
Crave spiritual gifts. Put on the garment of fire and power. Be filled with all the fruit of the Holy Spirit. Be led by the voice and direction of the Holy Spirit.
Stop resisting and ignoring the Holy Spirit with your spiritual laziness, stubbornness, cowardice, and indiscipline. Submit completely to the Holy Spirit.
Surrender all to Jesus. Cast all your burdens and cares upon the Lord.
First Peter 5 verse 7 says, casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you.
Humbly bow before the Lord and tell Him to equip you and teach your fingers how to fight and make war spiritually.
Psalm 144 verse 1 says, blessed be the Lord my Rock, who trains my hands for war, and my fingers for battle.
Ask for His help and stop depending on your flesh.
Power is your birthright. Wake up and start putting on the power and fire of God and demons will scream and run away from you.
Witches will fear and respect the fire of God on you because they cannot withstand the fire of God.
May great grace be upon you, in Jesus name, amen.
May God make you an untouchable, in Jesus make, amen.
Receive fire and power for complete protection, in Jesus name, amen.
May God’s great power strengthen you to cut off every association that serves as a point of contact with the gates of hell, in Jesus name.
May God reveal to you the secrets of His Word and teach you how to walk continually in His divine protection and power, in Jesus name.
Win Satan by getting rid of points of contact with the gates of hell.
Point of contact is the big secret that Satan has hidden from believers.
Communication, contact, and association are the gateways that demonic people and witches use to get access to believers.
Talking, chatting and having phone calls with demonic people are demonic gateways and portals. Watching demonic people and celebrities and looking at pictures of demonic celebrities are also demonic gateways and portals.
Those celebrities know it. That is the way they obtain energy and power. That is why they love to be scantily clothed.
Watching demonic people, talking, chatting, and having unequally yoked friendships with demonic people is like falling into a pit and walking into the gates of hell.
Second Corinthians 6 verse 14 says, do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what communion has light with darkness?
If you are hungry for complete deliverance and power, cut off the demonic gates, links, points of contact and doors.
No contact is your biblical instruction and medicine.
Be watchful, be vigilant, be full of God's Word, and hear the voice and direction of the Holy Spirit.
If you do not understand and know God's secrets and deliverance secrets, you will give Satan the upper hand and space.
The Word of God reveals God's secrets.
Second Corinthians 2 verse 11 says, lest Satan should take advantage of us; for we are not ignorant of his devices.
God has given you complete redemption and deliverance. But you can unconsciously and ignorantly give away parts of the liberty and freedom that Christ purchased for you with His blood.
Galatians 5 verse 1 says, stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free.
Cling to your freedom and liberty.
You are not helpless. You have control. You have the authority.
Luke 10 verse 19 says that Jesus gave His disciples authority over all the power of the enemy.
But if you do not know how to apply that authority and control, you will be controlled by Satan and his witches and demons.
Satan, demons, and witches are not the problem. Your inability to know and apply God's secrets and the fullness of God's Word is the problem. Deception is the problem.
Deception and lies are their highest weapon.
To resist the devil is to reject his lies, tricks and deception.
May God show you His secrets.
May the Holy Spirit fill you with light and lead you into all the truth that sets you completely free, in Jesus name, amen.
May God visit you mightily and crown you with His deliverance and power.
There is no sickness, affliction or spell that the Holy Ghost fire and the blood of Jesus cannot destroy.
But the question is: are you willing to pay the price and pray with fervent, stubborn, persistent, fierce faith?
Master how to beg God for grace, ability, mercy and power. Don't be proud.
If you don't ask for the power of God, it means that you are proud and self-dependent. You have not learned the lesson that your flesh cannot save you.
Recognizing your need for the Holy Spirit is humility.
Hebrews 4 verse 16 says, come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.
Matthew 15 verse 22 says that a Canaanite woman came crying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, Son of David. My daughter is severely oppressed by a demon.
And the woman begged Jesus for the children's crumbs. And Jesus rewarded her faith. Nothing could discourage her from obtaining deliverance for her child.
James 5 verse 16 says that the prayer of a righteous man is very powerful and effective.
Pray. Pray!
Fill your heart with the fullness of the word of God, faith and the complete armour of God. And pray like you have never prayed before.
Believe in the goodness, mercy, and love of God and pray fervently without giving up, and you will experience mercy from the throne of grace.
Be very very stubborn about meditating on the word of God, prayer and seeking God's presence. That is your only protection and medicine for complete deliverance every day.
Stop using your prayer time to play and watch nonsense on social media. Stop watching immoral things that open demonic gateways and pollute your spirit.
Be very serious about spiritual power. Power is taken by force, not by carelessness, irresponsibility, recklessness and laziness.
Matthew 11 verse 12 says, the kingdom of heaven suffers violence, and the violent take it by force.
Spiritual power is not for lazy people.
Cry out to God from the bottom of your heart.
Cry out to God persistently day and night like the persistent widow, and don't give up.
Luke 18 verse 7 says, shall God not avenge His own elect who cry out day and night to Him?
Cry for the highest level of God's power and protection. Cry to God for His fire. You need fire. You were born for fire and power, not demonic oppression.
May God be a wall of fire all around you to cleanse you, fill you, surround you, and deliver you.
May great grace be upon you, in Jesus name.
Crave the fire and presence of God with all your heart. Crave spiritual gifts.
It is the fullness of the presence of God in and around you that protects you and crushes every sickness, curse and all your enemies.
The Holy Spirit constantly tells me that He wants passion-passion for His presence. You must be hungry for the power and grace of God in order to enjoy it.
Passion, thirst, hunger, need and desire are mandatory for attracting God's presence and glory.
If you do not ask, you will not receive.
The biggest mistake believers make is to depend on the flesh.
If you notice that you keep praying but never ask for the fullness of the presence of God or the full baptism of the Holy Spirit, you are praying amiss.
You are praying backwards. You are depending on your flesh. You are fighting with your flesh.
Your flesh cannot win a spiritual battle.
Romans 8 verse 8 says that those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
John 6 verse 63 says, it is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing.
Of yourself you can do nothing. Man's power is of no use at all.
Sicknesses and demons are only afraid of the fire and presence of God.
If you carry God’s fire, demons will be tormented by the fire of God that you are carrying, and they will flee.
Jesus is the presence and power of God. Jesus is all you need.
Moses knew what he was saying when he said in Exodus 33 verse 15, if Your presence does not go with us, we will not leave this place.
He understood his absolute need and dependence on God. Numbers 12 verse 3 records that Moses was the humblest man on earth in his days.
Jesus said in Matthew 11 verse 29, learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart.
Luke 5 verse 16 says that Jesus often withdrew into the wilderness and prayed.
Jesus constantly went to lonely places at intervals during the day to renew the presence and fire of God. That was the secret to His success.
He knew how to walk in the Spirit and with the Holy Spirit. He knew how to hear the voice of the Holy Spirit and follow Him.
It is the truth you know that sets you free.
Hosea 4 verse 6 says, my people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.
If you ignore the Holy Spirit and keep fighting spiritual battles with your flesh, you will be very weak spiritually, because you lack spiritual food.
The presence of God is the spiritual food you need. The word of God is the spiritual food for your mind and soul.
It is the word of God that convicts and convinces you to seek the presence of God at intervals every day.
You must be filled and overflowing with the Word of God before you can be filled and overflowing with the glory, fire, and presence of God.
The ultimate quest is the presence and fire of God. The presence of God is what gives you unlimited results and great victory.
Fight! Pay the price!
Pray aggressively and persistently, because it is the spiritually violent and aggressive that experience the presence of God by force.
Let absolute desire and need for the presence of God take over your mind. This is how to walk in the reality of the fullness of truth that sets you free.
Jesus died so that you can constantly taste and enjoy the fullness, power, fire and presence of God.
Jesus has given you the keys to the presence of God.
Do not waste the grace of God by depending on your own flesh to crush demons and evil. Only the presence, power and fire of God can crush evil.
Ask. Ask for the fire of God.
James 4 verse 2 says, you do not have because you do not ask.
Constantly ask for the full baptism of the Holy Spirit and renew the presence of God daily.
If you do not ask, you will not receive.
May the fire of God fill you, surround you, and consume the roots of your problems.
May God's presence come upon you and transform you from glory to glory into the highest dimensions of His power and glory, in Jesus name, amen.
