This morning let’s use our time of devotional reading to deal with how a life of obedience helps us in prayer, and how the opposite is true if we are disobedient. Let’s consider how our sin can be like a wedge that has been driven between us and the Lord, and how we experience this feeling far too often in our lives. We have even coined a phrase to describe this feeling… we refer to it as having a “guilty conscience.” Isn’t it hard for us to be open and sincere with someone when we are plagued by guilt? Aren’t our prayers much the same? How can we speak to God, or listen to Him as He speaks to us, when we have sinned, and are overshadowed by guilt?