Pursuit Hungry For More - Barriers to Effective Prayer (9:00)

And so your first point this morning is that doubting God is a barrier to effective prayer. See, this is a this is a mentality that we have to ask the Lord to search our hearts and say, Lord, do we have a a doubt and a skepticism, a lack of confidence in you? Because the Bible says that if we are doing that, that we're double minded, that we're unstable, that we're like a boat or like a wave tossed to and fro by the wind and the waves. [00:27:29] (30 seconds)  #PrayerRequiresFaith

Now we might look at that and say, is he believing and having doubt at the same time? But when you look at that word unbelief, the Greek word is apostea, and it means weakness of faith or wanting of faith. He was in this place where where he was trusting Jesus, but his faith was still weak. And he was saying, Jesus, I need more faith. [00:29:42] (22 seconds)  #HelpMyUnbelief

Give me more faith. Where someone who is double minded, they'll actually walk away and go to other things. He was coming towards Jesus and saying, Jesus, I need more faith. And that's your next point today. Weak faith is different from doubting. It's different from being double minded. [00:30:04] (22 seconds)  #BringWhatFaithYouHave

And God wants us to come to him with whatever faith we have, trusting and being confident that he can do anything, that he does see our situation, and we have to cry out, Lord, give me more faith. My faith and confidence is in you alone. I'm not trusting in anything else but you. But Jesus, give me more faith. [00:30:27] (23 seconds)  #ConfidenceInGod

God is looking for people that will come to him with whatever faith they have, bringing whatever situations they're facing, because some of you guys today, you've been facing situations that that have beat you down year after year after year after year, and maybe you find yourself in this place of skepticism, having a lack of confidence with God, and God is saying, anything is possible to the one who believes. And he's saying, come to me with whatever faith you have. Trust in me, and I will give you the faith that you need, and he will walk with you through whatever you're facing today. [00:31:06] (36 seconds)  #GodGivesFaith

Now, this is a hard one, you guys, because the reality is that many in this room have deep wounds caused by people that should have never hurt us the way that they did. I'm in the boat right along with you guys. But we have to understand today, and it's your next point, that unforgiveness is a barrier to effective prayer. [00:32:27] (23 seconds)  #ForgiveToPray

Church, this is a big deal to God. And and and he if you have unforgiveness in the room today, he's not asking you to forgive them on your own, but he's actually willing to come alongside of you and give you strength to forgive. [00:33:13] (16 seconds)  #GodHelpsForgive

But I wanna point out that this first servant, he owed the master 10,000 bags of gold. That's the equivalent, if you start digging into it, to about 200,000 years of wages. So figure out how much you make in a year, times that by 200,000, and that's about what this guy owed the master. There was no way he could repay it. There's absolutely no way he could repay it. He could have worked his whole life, and he still wouldn't have been able to repay it. And what does the master do? He has mercy on him, and he forgives him. [00:36:37] (42 seconds)  #ForgivenMuch