God answers prayer

“I call on You, O God, for You will answer me; give ear to me and hear my prayer.” Psalm 17:6
Prayer is a wonderful, powerful thing that we have. It is a direct hotline to God, and the bottleneck is always at our end, not His. We might not pray often enough (I know I am guilty of this), or we may not be praying in complete accordance with His will, or there might be some sin we need to deal with before He can answer our prayer and bless us. But if we are a child of God, He will always hear our prayer, and He will always answer us.
How come then, we don’t seem to see our prayers answered more often? Well, God doesn’t always answer in the affirmative. We might be praying for something out of selfishness, without thinking about the implications an affirmative response would have on others – or on ourselves further down the track. We might be praying for something that is not God’s will for us. Also, He might not answer our prayer immediately. Maybe He has to work something else out in another person’s life, before your prayer can be answered. Or maybe He has to work something out in your own life. But the Scriptures give us assurance that God does hear, and He does answer. He doesn’t ignore us.