Is God listening to your prayers? | How to Pray to God | Luke 18 & Job 35 Bible Devotion

Is God listening to your prayers? Sometimes the answer is, No. Here's how to pray to God so that He hears, and responds to you.

In this Bible Devotion out of Luke 18 and Job 35, Pastor Nelson looks how to pray, some reasons why God ignores our prayers, and how to make sure God is listening when we pray.

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*** Scripture

Job 35:13
Surely God does not hear an empty cry, nor does the Almighty regard it.

Also, Luke 18:9–14



*** Transcript

Have you ever had the impression that God wasn’t listening to you. Like God was just plain ignoring you? You prayed, but received no answer. You worshiped, but didn’t feel any connection.

Now, here’s the part where, I’m suppose to reassure you that God is always listening, and that as a believer, you have direct access to God! And while that is true… What’s scary is, there are cases where God hears you, but He completely ignore you.

Let me explain. Jesus tells a parable in the book of Luke, about two men. One was a tax collector, a man who everyone looked down on, and the other was a Pharisee, a man everyone looked up to. The Tax collector, humbly prays to God asking for mercy and forgiveness. The Pharisee prays to God, out of pridefulness, using eloquent words, and loud boasts of personal piety.

Jesus explains that the prayer of Tax collector was answered, not of the Pharisee. They both prayed to God, but God chose to hear one, and ignore the other. Why?

Job 35:13 helps us understand, saying: Surely God does not hear an empty cry, nor does the Almighty regard it.

You see, God is not interested in empty words. You can stand in Church, clap your hands and sing of God’s great love, but if your heart isn’t singing along, and your mind is off somewhere else… that’s not worship. God’s not listening.

If you’re praying out loud or to yourself, using every theological word you can think of, in hopes to impress God, or the people around you about how spiritual you are… God won’t be moved.

God does not answer empty cries.

The key to being heard by God, isn’t in the words that are coming out of your mouth. Instead, it’s in the love for Him that flows out of your Heart.

Those are words God never ignores.

And that’s today’s Bible Munch.




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