It's not about finding the right person who's a more righteous. It's not about finding the

person who can say the right words. It's about a heart attitude that is fervent for the things

God is fervent for. And the prayer is effective because of Christ's righteousness given to us.

Welcome back to Verity Podcast friends. I'm Felicia Masonheimer, your host and the founder of Every Woman a Theologian. We are in the middle of our prayer series, and this is episode

six of that series, where we are talking about a question that y'all sent in that is connected to quite a few different

scriptures that we're going to look at in this episode. And that question is, does God hear

everyone's prayers? Now, I had three different titles for this episode, all based on the different

passages that we're going to be looking at today.

I thought about calling it, does God hear the prayers of unbelievers? I thought about calling it,

does God hear the prayers of the unrepentant? Or does God hear my prayers when I'm sinning?

I also thought, should I talk about, you know, the righteous and effectual prayer from James

Five. Guess what? We're going to cover all of these things. We're just going to title this

episode, Does God Hear Everyone's Prayers? That should cover all of the people that we're

talking about in this episode. This came up because when we were collecting the questions from you via our email inbox, which by the way, you can still send us questions during this prayer series. You can email them to felicia at felicia masenheimer.com. Our team will receive it. We go through those emails every week. When we were looking through those questions, what we saw was a consistent

insecurity around whether or not God heard our prayers based on a few different factors.

One, being righteous enough based on what we see in James 516, two, being sinless enough. So kind of like the

flip side of that, like, am I righteous enough? Like, am I good enough? But also, am I too bad?

Like, am I too bad for God to hear me? Looking also at verses like 1st Peter 3.7, where it says that a man who does not love his wife

will have his prayers hindered. So the question then is, okay, well, what can I do to have my prayers

hindered? I might not be a husband, but doesn't that mean that like my sin can hinder my prayers? What does that look like?

And then the question, like, does God hear the prayers of unbelievers? So people who don't follow him

and cry out to him, maybe in a moment of desperation, is God hearing their prayers if they're not

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