Does God Hear The Prayer Of The Heart

Sometimes we pray aloud, maybe in church or a formal setting, and sometimes we have to pray silently in our heart; does God hear the silent prayer, does he honor it as much as public prayer?

"Before he had finished praying, Rebecca came out with her jar on her shoulder. She was the daughter of Bethuel, son of Milcah who was the wife of Abraham's Brother Nahor." Genesis 24:15. "Before I finished praying in my heart Rebecca came out with her jar on her shoulder..." Genesis 24:45.

A LITTLE BACKGROUND
Abraham told his servant to go the land of his relatives and bring back a wife for his son Isaac. The servant arrived at the town where he waited by the well and prayed for God to show him by a specific test who was the one he should bring back. While he was still praying the answer literally walked up to him.

GOD IS PERSONAL AND INTIMATE
Only a real friend knows your heart and God is more attentive than any friend, He searches your most deep thoughts. He knows your history and what brought you to this point. Your heart has no secrets from him.

GOD IS WAITING
God gives us free will and will not violate that, so He does not force answers to the prayers we have not prayed. He is waiting for our declaration of faith by our request.

WHILE HE WAS STILL PRAYING
It was a prayer of faith. The servant had learned faith from Abraham. Perhaps he saw faith in action through Abraham's great struggles or the servant watched it in his master's daily life. It was a simple faith and God honored it immediately.

GOD HEARS
God knows the thoughts of your heart; he knows your fears and your feelings. It is logical that he hears the prayer we pray in silence without uttering a word out loud.

If you pray out loud or silently you can pray confidently, God listens to what is in our hearts as much as what comes out of our mouths.

To learn how you can know God personally see my other blog.

* To read Genesis 24 in it's entirety follow this link to Bible Gateway.

(c) Adron 4/5/14

Did Anyone Ever Get It Right about God? Genisis 5: 23 - 25

The Bible is full of the sins of God's people; Moses murdered an Egyptian, Noah got drunk, David was an adulterer, Peter denied the Lord, etc. Is there an example in the Bible where someone got life right? There was one...

“And after he became the father of Methuselah, Enoch walked with God 300 years and had other sons and daughters. Altogether, Enoch lived 365 years. Enoch walked with God; then he was no more, because God took him away.” Genesis 5:23 – 25.

WALK
Enoch “walked" with God. Walking is the most common of human experiences. Virtually everyone walks, every day. The way that humans walk set us apart from other living things.

AGREEMENT
To walk with someone is to be in agreement with them; you must go the same way and turn at the same time, cross the same bridges together and rest at the same time. If each takes a different fork they are no longer walking together, and if one stops but the other continues they are no longer walking together. The picture of the walk makes it clear God desires us to be in agreement with Him and He wants to share even the most common daily experiences with us.

A LONG WALK
Enoch didn't just walk with God for a little while and it wasn't an occasional experience. He didn't quit when the pressures of life made him focus on other things, Enoch walked with God for 300 plus years! He was faithful, he was a finisher.

HOW
There is no formula or plan to walk with God it is a relationship, not a program. Like any relationship, it takes work, time, listening, talking, effort, and working out all the little things.

We gladly bring God in the parts of our lives that are huge; we pray about a job, we seek his mind for our future spouse, but that alone is not the walk. To walk with God is to bring Him into everything, no matter how small, and to acknowledge his presence at all times and situations.

If you walk with God He will take you away since you will be transformed, the old you cannot walk with God for long without changing.

(c) Adron