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Have you ever prayed and wondered if God was really listening? In this devotional, Lynette Kittle walks us through the struggle of feeling unheard by God and explores two powerful steps we can take when prayers seem to go unanswered: self-examination and persistent seeking through fasting and prayer. Drawing from Daniel’s experience, we discover how spiritual battles can delay answers but also how God hears us the moment we call.

✨ Highlights

• Why unconfessed sin can create a sense of distance between us and God (2 Corinthians 13:5, 1 John 1:9)

• How Daniel’s story reveals that prayer delays don’t mean God is silent or absent

• Practical steps to restore closeness with God through confession, fasting, and seeking His presence

• The reality of spiritual warfare and why persistence in prayer matters (Ephesians 6:12)

• Encouragement to trust that God hears you—even when answers feel delayed

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Full Transcript Below:

Hello, God, Are You There?

By Lynette Kittle

“But your iniquities have separated you from your God; your sins have hidden His face from you, so that He will not hear”--Isaiah 59:2 

Have we ever felt like God wasn’t hearing us, not listening, and wonder why? 

If so, do we look for new ways to pray with more powerful words and phrases to say in our prayers? Do we point fingers at the devil, blaming him for interfering somehow in our prayers, maybe preventing them from reaching God like what happened with Daniel?

So what steps can we take when it seems like God is either not hearing us or answering our prayers? The following are two ways we can look to see what may be behind these feelings. 

Dig Deeper 

It’s not something we like to do and most of us try to avoid it, but possibly a self-evaluation is needed to see if we’re sinning, not just in the everyday way we all do throughout life, but in an in-depth look where we go beyond the surface and start digging down.

2 Corinthians 13:5 urges, “Exami

How can we have new hearts if Colossians 3 says to “set our hearts”? Can you help me understand the Trinity? If we’re supposed to give our burdens to Christ, then how do we bear the burdens of others?