“Prayer busters (causes of unanswered prayer) are prayerlessness, unconfessed sin, unresolved relational conflict, selfishness, uncaring attitudes, and inadequate faith.”

—  Bill Hybels

Too Busy Not to Pray (2008, InterVarsity Press)

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