The God Who Hears You

"Always respond to every impulse to pray. The impulse to pray may come when you are reading or when you are battling with a text. I would make an absolute law of this – always obey such an impulse." ―Martyn Lloyd-Jones

How important would you feel if your father had 3 billion kids' phone numbers in his iPhone 4S, and you were just one of them? How much attention could one man give that many children? Virtually none. But we're talking about our heavenly Father, here. God, it turns out, has no limitations on His power, His knowledge, or His ability to be everywhere for everyone all at once! This was made clear in His talk with Moses. God said:

"I am pleased with you and I know you by name." ―Exodus 33:17

One New Year’s season I was sitting with thousands of college students at the Urbana conference at Illinois University. The arena was packed to the rafters. At one point in the program, they asked us all to pray…out loud. 20,000 students praying at the top of their lungs. I was overwhelmed not just by the noise or the cumulative effect but by the simple fact that God was capable of hearing all the prayers, deciphering the desires, formulating each request, and answering each one perfectly.