A LOFTY REALIZATION We have and are able to have direct access to the Living God. Most people never have this realization, and many Believers never fully understand what that means. We can in our spirits commune with the Living God and it's this meditation (See Psalm 104:34, 49:3, 119:99) that brings us back to our childlike sanity and fills us with abundance in our lives and spirits. You don't sweat the small stuff in this mindset like it says in Psalm 119:165Great peace have they which love thy law, and nothing shall offend them. Through my own experience and through putting the pieces together in his word I came to the conclusion that God does answer prayer in very real and powerful ways but that depends on the strength of your Belief and your level of Righteousness. Both of these directly reflect each other. The more you believe (i.e. know without doubt within your being) the more righteous you will be and the more you will be able to accomplish through faith by and in the Holy Spirit. Psalm 84: 11 For the Lord God is a sun and shield: the Lord will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly. So walking uprightly, circumspectly, with clean hands and pure hearts in the spirit is important if we are to receive blessings. And living according to the flesh/sin prevents that… Jeremiah 5:25Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withhold good things from you. So it's important for us to walk uprightly, with integrity. And God will hear and answer us and give us what we ask for if it's in line with his spirit. Just like it says in 1 john 5:14-15 and in Matthew 21:22 And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive. So why do we so often feel that our prayers are not answered? We, or rather in my experience, The prayers do not get through to God because we have blockages in our spirit from sin/demonic interference and a lack of faith/righteousness. John 9:31Now we know that God heareth not sinners: but if any man be a worshipper of God, and doeth his will, him he heareth. Isaiah 59:2But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear. And this I know, just as the following scripture says… Psalm 66:18 If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me. WHY??? James 4:3Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts. So what's the solution? It's in this lofty realization of the ability to communicate with the living God. This means slowing down (initially) in action and being more aware, perceptive and reflective in thought(see 1 Corinthians 2:9-10&15), while separating from the worldly entertainments and distractions from the truth. I recall to mind a passage from the "Secret Covenant" which is a pact against humanity made by fallen angels. "We will focus their attention toward money and material goods so they may never connect with their inner self. We will distract them with fornication, external pleasures and games so they may never be one with the oneness of it all." When you really realize this is possible to talk or rather commune-icate (in spirit) with the creator directly, things change for the better and it's this seeking him in the spirit ( -in what is intangible to the natural minded man/those who reject Christ and his word) That frees us from bondage and liberates us from the tyranny of the fleshy/”natural”/demonic mindset and its desires that hinder us from thinking and seeing clearly and acting according to righteous judgment in the Spirit. So the solution to our condition/problem is simple... James 4:8-10Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded. 9 Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up (into the realization of the truth of our spiritual identity and understanding), Daniel 9:13. This entails repentance, a conscious meditation of and turning from transgression against God and divine law...which in reality is really you just wronging your own soul according to proverbs 8:36... You can and must truly look into your life deep down inside and feel remorse towards the living God and those affected around you from the error of your sin which recognized or not, everybody feels sins effects in some detrimental way. This is the key to freedom and release as says Ecclesiastes 7:3Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better. And our problems with god rest in our hearts, in our core center of our being. This is where god resides, on the throne of our heart but Satan has hijacked Gods throne and we have to reestablish the truth inside by kicking demons out by cleansing our lives of offenses toward God and waiting a small time for God to come in and truly heal us so we can have the abundance of what the holy spirit gives us which is regeneration so we can again love everything about being alive. Psalm 81:13 Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways!14 I should soon have subdued their enemies (demonic entities, see Ephesians 6:12, Matthew 12:43-45, Deuteronomy 28:43-48, Daniel 2:43, Psalm 107:9-10, Daniel 8:11-14, Psalm 81:8-10) and turned my hand against their adversaries. And so those that are righteous (according to the faith of Jesus Christ) know the reality of 1 john 3:22 And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight. Isaiah 43:22But thou hast not called upon me, O Jacob; but thou hast been weary of me, O Israel. James 5:16 Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. Proverbs 15:8The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord: but the prayer of the upright is his delight. Proverbs 28:9He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer shall be abomination. Matthew 22:37-40 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. 38 This is the first and great commandment. 39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.