>>”that’s exactly what I have been feeling lately...this intense urge to pray and pray hard.”<<
Lost that feeling many years ago. God hears prayers of those He favors and ignores the rest.
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I know precisely how you feel, because for a very long time that was me too.
I was very angry at God, that He listened to the prayers of others but whenever mine went up He turned a deaf ear.
It's taken some time but I see now that He was hearing every one of them. He was also working overtime to keep me from many of the things I was praying about, because in retrospect those turned out to have not been for my well-being.
Long story short, I can see His hand at work in my life better than I could before. But that doesn't come overnight.
Just please know that you're in company with others. PLENTY of others :-)
“God hears prayers of those He favors and ignores the rest.”
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How do you define “those He favors” ??
If you mean ‘born again’ then probably yes. Why should He hear those who belittle the priceless shed blood of Christ?
Yet our God is merciful, and yes, He may hear the pleas of the lost.
In which camp are you?