Many times I hear this question from people asking me or
from the news or at church groups or whatnot. It’s quite
a popular complaint of people. They pray and pray and
pray and pray and pray and are wondering to themselves,

“Does God even hear what I’m saying?”
“Why doesn’t god hear my prayers?”

I struggled with this for many years… wondering what
was happening myself. Did God hear me? Did it care?

I asked myself these questions daily – and never stopped
praying earnestly – like my life depended on it, like my
SOUL depended on it… and eventually the answers
started flowing…

“Yes Jerry, I hear you…”
“I’m making iself known to you…” Iself is what God calls
itself. I asked once, “why not ‘myself’ and God said…

“I am not MYself Jerry, because I don’t own myself.
I am for you and the rest of the believers in me. I am
here for you as you’ve been there for me – doing my
work with the other of my children…”

So, ‘iSelf’ is just a way God refers to it…

I didn’t ask anymore… occasionally I can sense a
little aggravation in the voice of God and I back off.
Too many questions at once is not so good an approach.
I like to ask a question and then listen usually. God
likes to talk – so usually I listen. It’s respectful that way.

I have to take God’s side for a minute… do you think
that your prayers deserve to be heard? You know
what I’m saying… do you really have a pure heart
and intention when you ask that your prayers be
answered?

Are you asking for God to help you lose some weight
while there are starving people all over the world
that could use the extra food you’re overeating with?

If you had to ask yourself – “What is a better way
to lose weight?” One way might be that you could
eat smaller meals and send the money you save to
help kids being forced to eat bugs and handfuls of
rice donation handouts.

Do you see what I’m saying? I’m not trying to be
too upfront, but I think sometimes being upfront is
ok. Maybe I ate too much one time too – that’s ok,
but, the next time I think about children with
swollen bellies and dying for food… and I think God
shrinks my stomach a little bit.

In the bible was said something regarding not needing
to eat – because God is the bread and the drink and
that we could live off his words. I believe that. If
you believe it, you too could find peace. At least
if you believe what he said. Do you believe it?

And so – there are many things that we ask God
for. Some are worthy of his listening to and some
are not. Some are selfishly prayed in the hopes
that you’ll get something special from him. A gift.
We always want the gift, but we don’t always
want to GIVE a gift.

GIVE God a gift and yourself a gift by asking
yourself before you pray if, by praying for
something, you are of a pure heart… of an
unbridled consciousness… and if that is the
truth. The God’s honest truth then maybe
it’ll listen… and maybe he won’t… nobody
really knows the workings of God’s mind.

If you want to pray about something that
will help a lot more people than yourself,
pray for sustained rain to fall across
the drought-devastated East Africa’s Horn
region. If rain doesn’t fall, crops don’t grow.

God said, “If you spend more time before
you pray thinking about what it is you
really want… you’ll come up with some-
thing better to pray about 4 out of 5 times.”

I don’t think that he’s saying that those of
us that are on the internet with our free
time are wasting his time, just that if we
question a bit before we pray we’ll learn
more about ourselves and why we’re
asking for something trivial while others
don’t even have the basic necessities of
life.

Interesting facts about Hunger > Millions of Mouths Blog

God bless…

Jerry