When you come to God and own up to your sin, your conscience is cleared and you stand pure before him. When your conscience is not clear there is a wall separating you and God, even though God is longing to be with you. When your conscience is cleared, the wall is removed and your prayers are not hindered. It is not that God doesn't hear per se, but that those prayers are hindered by an ill-infected conscience. When your conscience is clear, faith is unhindered and sweetness of relationship between you and God is tapped into. Listen to what King David said about this.

Psalm 24:3-4  Who may ascend the hill of the LORD? Who may stand in his holy place?  He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to an idol or swear by what is false. 

Ps 35:15  The eyes of the LORD are on the righteous and his ears are attentive to their cry.

We know from the word of God that anything that does not come from faith is sin and cannot tap into the pleasure of God. (See Rom 14:23 and Heb 11:6) God, in his amazing grace, has made away for us to have the privilege to seek and pursue him. What a blessing to come to him, knowing he has forgiven us and loves for us to be close to him. I love what 1 John 1:9 says, “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.”  The fact that the God of the whole universe wants to spend time with us is outrageous in one sense and unbelievably beautiful in another! God wants to meet with you! Will you seek him today? Know this…

HE WILL HEAR