Do you share with God your failures, your sins, what you need from Him? More than I know “I am short of holy“. So I pray about it.
Just give God my life? I’ll go to Hell before that!
So who do you think you are? Have you been to Hell and back? To Heaven and seen its glories? Jesus did.
Got unconfessed sin? Harboring sin makes anyone’s prayers ineffective
With prayer, we love to quote “ask anything…” (1 John 5:14), but many often neglect warnings about repentance (Psalm 66:18) and praying according to His will. God is a given, but prayer depends on “the person in prayer”.
Are you being warned by the Holy Spirit about being “out”?
Is God warning you about being outside the faith which Jesus Himself shared with His disciples? The faith you receive must not come from those who are “out”. Peter said true salvation is only through “a faith of the same kind as ours” (2 Peter 1:1).
Our defining affirmation of salvation is also here in 1 John
What God does to each of us when we are born again? That is what saves us – what He does to us. But He does not save the “cracked heart”, the one who holds-back anything. Did God save you, or have you deviated into what He is against?