Who will not be heard

But whom shall God not hear? What prevents the flow of God's blessings? Isaiah, the prophet of old, proclaimed, thus:

"But your iniquities have separated you from your God: And your sins have hidden His face from you, So that He will not hear." (Isa. 59:2, Ibid.)

The Almighty Father is a benevolent God and should not be faulted should man not receive anything from Him. God is not at fault. Certainly, man is. If God does not hear man's pleadings, the latter alone is to blame. The prophet Isaiah further says:

"And there is no one who calls on Your name, Who stirs himself up to take hold Your face from us, And have consumed us because of our iniquities." (Isa. 64:7, Ibid)

Man's iniquities or sins have separated him from God. Sin has hidden God's face from man so that He will not hear the latter's plea. Hence, shedding of the sinful self and a complete renewal of life is called for and necessary for one to be answered by God.