Approach: Examining how selfishness hinders prayer and how to remedy that.

Hermeneutic objective: Observing a passage by breaking it up into parts.

Theological objective: Selfishness hinders the effectiveness of prayer, because:

A selfish Believer has ungodly desires.

A selfish Believer only prays for their selfish desires.

A selfish Believer has a poor relationship with God.