there are things in us that break off connection with God, the source of the changing power. Then there are certain things in us that delay or diminish the results. And then there is a great outside hindrance to be reckoned upon. Let’s discuss the first of these: the hindrances that break off connections between God and His human partner. Here again there is a division into three. There are three things directly spoken of in the Bible that hinder prayer. The first one is sin. In Isaiah’s first chapter