BUT I AM PRAYING HARD,WHY IS GOD NOT ANSWERING ME?

"BUT I AM PRAYING HARD, WHY IS GOD NOT ANSWERING ME?"

I always preached against the phrase "praying Hard" , but i just realized that actually God want us to "pray Hard". Reason for my preaching against the phrase was because i did not not believe that God wants us to pray hard because people would be praying hard but at the end of the day they would say "i am praying hard , But why is God not aswering me?" so i would say God doesnt want you to pray hard but God want you to pray thats all,,,but i was wrong!

     God really wants you to pray Hard , but the reason why God is not answering your prayers is not because your not praying hard. See we have made prayer a monologue(single person speaking) priniciple  than a dialogue(conversation between two people) principle, we speak to God and we leave after speaking to Him. The problem guys is not in the praying hard the problem is in the Listening. We do not Listen to Him, we do not listen to what He says when we pray unto Him.

     The reason why many of us miss the miracle (ANSWER) is that we are not listening. The easy part of prayer is talking. Its much harder listening to that still small voice of the Holy Spirit. The Bible tells us in the book of James 5 :17 "Elija was a human as we are , and yet when he prayed earnestly that no rain would fall, none fell for three days and a half......" praying earnestly literally means "praying with a prayer" . Its more than words. It means acting on your prayers because you expect and answer. Now how can you act on your prayer if you did not listen to what God is saying concerning your prayer ?

    Guys one reason many of us never get an answer to our hard prayers is that all we do is pray - we dont listen!!! You just cant pray like Elijah; you have to act like Elijah-Listening to God, listening to what the master is saying concerning your prayer.

THAT MIRACLE(ANSWER) YOU NEED IS NOT IN THE PRAYING HARD ITS IN THE LISTENING