WHEN PRACTICING SIN, HABITUAL SIN,
GOD DOES NOT HEAR YOUR PRAYERS – it’s a theme in scripture:
Isaiah 59:1-2
Behold, the Lord’s hand is not so short that it cannot save; nor is His ear so dull that it cannot hear. But your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden His face from you so that He does not hear.
Proverbs 1:28-29
Then they will call on Me, but I will not answer; they will seek me diligently but they will not find Me, because they hated knowledge and did not CHOOSE to fear the Lord.
Proverbs 18:41
They cried for help but there was none to save, even to the Lord, but He did not answer them.
Proverbs 15:29
The Lord is far from the wicked, but He hears the prayer of the righteous.
Isaiah 1:15
So when you spread out your hands in prayer, I will hide My eyes from you; yes even though you multiply prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are covered in blood.
Psalm 66:18
If I regard wickedness in my heart, the Lord will not hear.
1 Peter 3:12
For the eyes of the Lord are toward the righteous, and His ears attend to their prayer, but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.
Proverbs 28:9
He who turns away his ear from listening to the law, even his prayer is an abomination.
Psalm 145:18
The Lord is near to all who call on Him, to ALL who call on Him in TRUTH!
John 9:31 - (The Pharisees Speaking)
We know that God does not hear sinners; but if anyone is God-fearing and does His will, He hears him.
Zechariah 7:11-13
But they refused to pay attention and turned a stubborn shoulder and stopped their ears from hearing. They made their hearts like flint so that they could not hear the law and the words which the LORD of hosts had sent by His Spirit through the former prophets; therefore great wrath came from the LORD of hosts. And just as He called and they would not listen, so they called and I would not listen,” says the LORD of hosts;