Does God hear all our prayers?

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being born again, experience, John Wesley, justification, Martin Luther, redemption, sanctification, the new self, true faith

Butterfly Born Anew
(Photo by Paul Schuberth)

“What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you? You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask. You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions. You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.” (Js 4:1-4 ESV)

Phew! What kind of Scriptures to begin with. Honestly, I was hell-bent on writing a more pleasing article, yet right now I am not sure that this very thing will turn out as I had hoped before. In particular, I want to expand on the questions, “What might be the reason when God does not give us what we wanted from Him?” AND “Is it possible to ask wrongly and not to realize it?”