Revelation 8:4 And the smoke of the incense went up with the prayers of the saints, out of the angel’s hand, before God. Praise is the most powerful form of prayer. Petitions without praise have no power to rise up to heaven. Praise is like the thrust to an aircraft during takeoff. Praise is the...
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15 December 2025 – Unanswered Prayers – Part 6
Luke 18:11-12 The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other people—robbers, evildoers, adulterers—or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week and give a tenth of all I get.’ Vain words and repetitions are ‘empty and powerless prayers’. They are like clouds without rain; like...
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14 December 2025 – Unanswered Prayers – Part 5
1 Kings 19:4 He came to a broom bush, sat down under it and prayed that he might die. “I have had enough, Lord,” he said. “Take my life; I am no better than my ancestors.” Unscriptural prayers will not be heard or answered. Elijah was a powerful man of God but when he was...
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13 December 2025 – Unanswered Prayers – Part 4
Mark 11;22-24 22 “Have faith in God,” Jesus answered. “Truly I tell you, if anyone says to this mountain, ‘Go, throw yourself into the sea,’ and does not doubt in their heart but believes that what they say will happen, it will be done for them. Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe...
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12 December 2025 – Unanswered Prayers – Part 3
Matthew 20:20-21 Then the mother of Zebedee’s sons came to Jesus with her sons and, kneeling down, asked a favor of him. “What is it you want?” he asked. She said, “Grant that one of these two sons of mine may sit at your right and the other at your left in your kingdom.” Salome,...
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11 December 2025 – Unanswered Prayers – Part 2
Mark 11:25 “And when you stand praying, if you hold anything against anyone, forgive them, so that your Father in heaven may forgive you your sins.” Hoarding offense and unforgiveness forms a thick black cloud separating us from divine interaction and intervention. Prayers cannot penetrate through the canopy of unforgiveness and offense. Life is too...
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10 December 2025 – Unanswered Prayers – Part 1
Job 3:23 What I feared has come upon me; what I dreaded has happened to me. Faith and fervor in prayer die down when prayers are not answered. Waiting for a long time for petitions to be granted quenches the fire in many prayer warriors. The foundations of their faith are challenged and the belief...
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09 December 2025 – Who said so? – Part 7
Exodus 4:10 Moses said to the Lord, “Pardon your servant, Lord. I have never been eloquent, neither in the past nor since you have spoken to your servant. I am slow of speech and tongue.” God qualifies the unqualified, disqualified and inadequate to accomplish His plan on earth. The discourse of Moses with the Lord...
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08 December 2025 – Who said so? – Part 6
Exodus 16:2-3 In the desert the whole community grumbled against Moses and Aaron. The Israelites said to them, “If only we had died by the LORD’s hand in Egypt! There we sat around pots of meat and ate all the food we wanted, but you have brought us out into this desert to starve this entire assembly to...
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07 December 2025 – Who said so? – Part 5
2 Kings 18:19-20 The field commander said to them, “Tell Hezekiah: “‘This is what the great king, the king of Assyria, says: On what are you basing this confidence of yours? You say you have the counsel and the might for war—but you speak only empty words. On whom are you depending, that you rebel...