Isaiah 59:1-5 Voice
The Eternal One’s reach is not so short that He cannot save you. His ear is not so deaf that He cannot hear you.
[2] Your persistent wrongdoing has come between you and your God; since you constantly reject and push God away, He had to turn aside and ignore your cries. [3] For your hands are covered with blood; your fingers are sticky with all manner of crimes; Your lips drip vicious lies; your tongue mutters all manner of wickedness.
[4] Everyone misuses the judicial system, clogging it with twisted accusations and misleading testimony. With empty charges and baseless lies they conceive trouble and give birth to injustice.
[5] They concoct and create the most poisonous things; it’s as if they hatch vipers’ eggs or weave spiders’ webs. Eat their eggs and die; crush one and a viper is hatched— yet more poison, hurt, and distrust.

HELLO GOD!
FATHER, CAN YOU HEAR ME!
WHY ARE YOU NOT ANSWERING ME!
This is how so many of us approach the Lord. As if God id deaf!
We seem to think God is cupping His hands around His ears when we call, saying, “speak up please, I can’t hear you, can you be a little bit louder? Come on, shout louder.
Sadly, shouty capital is how so many communicate with the Father. We think the louder we pray, and the more commanding or desperate we sound, the more chances that the Lord will hear.
The Israelites in our text, like us today, complain that God doesn’t come to our aid or hear our cry, but He declares throughout the scriptures that He’ll hear and answer whenever we call on Him. God’s not the problem, we are!
We come to the Lord with a petulant, aggressive and shouty tone, thinking that’s the only way we can get Him to hear us but according to Psalm 94:9, will the one that planted the ear not hear?
God doesn’t hear because of our iniquities, our unfaithfulness, and unbelief, so, when our prayers are unanswered, it’s because sin stands in the way of God’s hearing.
If God is silent—If God doesn’t answer in a way that leaves no doubt that He hears us, we shall be as dead men, says Psalm 28:1.
God is not deaf! He hears! He answers! But we must be alighted in His will and purposes. Psalm 66:18 tells us that God would not answer because of the iniquity in our hearts and unrepentant sin.
Jeremiah 33:3 encourages us that the only way we can receive deeper revelation from God is to call on Him; since the Lord is not deaf, it means He intends to answer when we call.
You shall call upon me—we must continue to pray for all of God’s blessings to come our way, when we call, He will answer, and He will give us whatever is best for us. God will be with us in trouble literally, He will be there to deliver us according to Psalm 91:15.
Isaiah 65:24 says that God will answer us and give us our desires even before we call. But when He answers, we are amazed that He answered, exclaiming that “God heard me!” of course He did.
We’ve been in Christian gatherings where we are told such things as; “that amen or hallelujah is too small for God,” “shout a louder amen, hallelujah,” “open your mouth and pray louder.” Seriously? Do we need to shout for God to hear us?
One of the most profound biblical prayers is Hannah’s. An example of silent prayer is Hannah’s inaudible petition recorded in 1 Samuel 1:10, 13, but it does not give specific instructions on praying silently. That does not mean that silent prayer is any less valid than praying out loud—Hannah’s prayer was answered, after all. God can hear our thoughts just as easily as He can hear our words, see Psalm 139:23; Jeremiah 12:3. Nothing we do, say, or think is hidden from God, He doesn’t need to hear our words to know our thoughts. He hears all prayers directed to Him, whether loud or silent, you don’t need to shout. God is not deaf!
Shalom