Failure In Prayer (Chain #2820)

Cause Of...

 

Disobedience
Deuteronomy 1:45 (NIV)

45 You came back and wept before the LORD, but he paid no attention to your weeping and turned a deaf ear to you. 

Disobedience
Deuteronomy 1:45 (KJV)

45 And ye returned and wept before the LORD; but the LORD would not hearken to your voice, nor give ear unto you. 

1 Samuel 14:37 (NIV)
37 So Saul asked God, "Shall I go down after the Philistines? Will you give them into Israel's hand?" But God did not answer him that day. 

1 Samuel 14:37 (KJV)
37 And Saul asked counsel of God, Shall I go down after the Philistines? wilt thou deliver them into the hand of Israel? But he answered him not that day. 

1 Samuel 28:6 (NIV)
6 He inquired of the LORD, but the LORD did not answer him by dreams or Urim or prophets. 


1 Samuel 28:6 (KJV)
6 And when Saul enquired of the LORD, the LORD answered him not, neither by dreams, nor by Urim, nor by prophets. 

Secret Sin
Psalm 66:18 (NIV)

18 If I had cherished sin in my heart, the Lord would not have listened; 

Secret Sin
Psalm 66:18 (KJV)

18 If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me

Indifference
Proverbs 1:28 (NIV)

28 "Then they will call to me but I will not answer; they will look for me but will not find me. 

Indifference
Proverbs 1:28 (KJV)

28 Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me: 

Neglect Of Mercy
Proverbs 21:13 (NIV)

13 If a man shuts his ears to the cry of the poor, he too will cry out and not be answered. 

Neglect Of Mercy
Proverbs 21:13 (KJV)

13 Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall cry himself, but shall not be heard. 

Despising The Law
Proverbs 28:9 (NIV)

9 If anyone turns a deaf ear to the law, even his prayers are detestable. 

Despising The Law
Proverbs 28:9 (KJV)

9 He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer shall be abomination. 

Blood Guiltiness
Isaiah 1:15 (NIV)

15 When you spread out your hands in prayer, I will hide my eyes from you; even if you offer many prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are full of blood; 

Blood Guiltiness
Isaiah 1:15 (KJV)

15 And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood. 

Iniquity
Isaiah 59:2 (NIV)

2 But your iniquities have separated you from your God; your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear. 

Iniquity
Isaiah 59:2 (KJV)

2 But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear. 

Micah 3:4 (NIV)
4 Then they will cry out to the LORD, but he will not answer them. At that time he will hide his face from them because of the evil they have done. 

Micah 3:4 (KJV)
4 Then shall they cry unto the LORD, but he will not hear them: he will even hide his face from them at that time, as they have behaved themselves ill in their doings. 

Stubbornness
Zechariah 7:13 (NIV)

13 "'When I called, they did not listen; so when they called, I would not listen,' says the LORD Almighty. 

Stubbornness
Zechariah 7:13 (KJV)

13 Therefore it is come to pass, that as he cried, and they would not hear; so they cried, and I would not hear, saith the LORD of hosts: 

Instability
James 1:6-8 (NIV)

6 But when he asks, he must believe and not doubt, because he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind.  7 That man should not think he will receive anything from the Lord; 8 he is a double-minded man, unstable in all he does. 

Instability
James 1:6-8 (KJV)

6 But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.  7 For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.  8 A double minded man is unstable in all his ways. 

Self-indulgence
James 4:3 (NIV)

3 When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures. 

Self-indulgence
James 4:3 (KJV)

3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.