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Pain and suffering are a reality in this world today, but it was not what God intended from the beginning of time. God created the world good (Genesis 1-2). However, humans rebelled against God’s good and perfect rule, and as a result, God’s good creation became cursed. This is called ‘The Fall’. ‘The Fall’ is pervasive, it affects everything (Genesis 3:14-19) – the serpent is cursed, the woman is cursed, the man is cursed, the very environment is cursed. God’s perfect harmony is disrupted, and this disruption spoils humanity’s relationship with God, humanity’s relationship with creation, humanity’s relationship with one another, and even the harmony within a person’s own body. You could say that even our DNA has been affected by the fall. All disease and pain came about as a result of ‘The Fall’, ultimately. Read Full Answer.

God is omniscient. That is, God knows everything. He even knows what we need before we even ask Him. (Matt 6:8). Hence, when we say that God does not hear the prayers of non-believers, we are not saying that God does not have the ability to hear, but rather, that He does not entertain prayers that are built on a sinful desire. Ps 66:18 tells us, “If I had cherished iniquity in my heart, the Lord would not have listened.” Read Full Answer.

As believers in Christ, we do not pray to the Trinity (God the Father, Son and the Holy Spirit), as we pray in the Holy Spirit to the Father through Jesus Christ. Each personhood in the Trinity fulfils a different role. We will briefly go through some passages in the bible which state that.

God the Father is the person who created all things and the person whom we lived for. He is also the one gave all authority to Jesus, and the one who gives the Holy Spirit to us. That is why we pray and give thanks to God the Father. Read Full Answer.

God is omnipotent and omniscient – He is able to do all things (Jeremiah 32:17) and He knows all things (1 John 3:20). He is a spirit (John 4:24) and does not have a physical form like we do. Therefore to say that He “hears” is not to say that he audibly hears prayers, but that He knows everything that everyone prays about. He also knows everything that is in our thoughts (Psalm 44:21, 94:11). 

However, from a human perspective it may seem that sometimes God does not hear our prayers. This is because God, in His power and sovereignty, chooses to respond to those whom He loves. God also has His own timing (2 Peter 3:8-9) for answering prayer. Read Full Answer.

The first thing to do is to make sure that we belong to God. In John 10:27, Jesus says, “My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me”, which means that the key prerequisite for hearing from God is that we belong to Him, that we are the sheep of His pasture. To do this, we need to repent, believe the good news of the Gospel, and follow Jesus. Read Full Answer.

When we are not hearing from God, we should ask, ‘Why?’ There could be many reasons such as:

1)    God is speaking but we are not hearing so we think God is not hearing us. If this is the case, we should remove any rebelliousness and start listening to Him and let Him speak to us in His terms. Read Full Answer.

Unfortunately, sin is the act of separating ourselves from God. That is why God hates it so much. But thanks be to God, Jesus’ death on the cross and His resurrection have the power to reverse the effects of sin. An unforgiven sinner is by definition separate from God. But a sinner who has accepted Jesus’ death and resurrection is by definition never separated from God. Read Full Answer.

The God of the bible is a God who is omnipresent (everywhere) and omniscient (all-knowing). Since He is omnipresent, He is always near us, and therefore can always hear all our prayers. God is all-knowing and therefore knows all things that will happen in the past, present and future; including all Read Full Answer.