Prayer, with Bible reading, is a conversation with God. But sometimes it seems that God isn’t listening to our prayers. Is this an illusion of our lack of faith, or is perhaps God not really listening? The Bible sometimes talks about God not hearing prayers, but how does this work for an omniscient God–isn’t it impossible for him not to hear everything everyone is saying, whether to him or anyone else? The key is in the way the Hebrew language uses the word for “hear”. It doesn’t just mean receiving the audible sensation of sound; it means listening to and responding to something someone says. So, when the Bible says God does not hear the prayers of those who are opposed to him, it means he won’t respond to them.
But for Christians, whether or not we feel like God hears and responds to our prayers or not, he does. He wants a relationship with us, and promises always to communicate with us.
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