Yes, most faiths teach that God hears prayers made silently in your head, as God is considered all-knowing and can hear your thoughts and heart's intentions, not just spoken words, though some traditions suggest audible or lip-moving prayer can be beneficial for focus and clarity. The key is a genuine connection, and many scriptures indicate God understands unspoken prayers, even wordless groans, according to Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, Reddit, and Arlington Catholic Herald.
The simple answer is yes, God hears your prayers. An ever-present, all-knowing God will hear every word from your mouth, thought in your mind and whisper of your heart. But there are some things that might affect whether He answers.
“The Lord detests the thoughts of the wicked, but gracious words are pure in his sight” (Proverbs 15:26). So, can you pray in your head? The answer to this is: God hears your prayers on all occasions, whether you're praying out loud or praying silently in your mind.
God listens to anything! There's power in our words so it's important to pray out loud but praying inside your head is okay too because he hears our heart, just not necessarily as much power.
It might not be exactly what you're thinking of but it is possible. Because God is Spirit He speaks to us through our spirits. The Bible tells us that when the Spirit speaks He doesn't speak on His own authority but on the authority of God (John 16:13).
In the Bible God gets angry at human violence. He gets angry at powerful leaders who oppress other humans. And the thing that makes God more angry than anything else in the Bible is Israel's constant covenant betrayal.
Church teaching says nothing about the time of 3 a.m. However, in popular culture it has become known as the “devil's hour.” This is because Gospel tradition reports that Jesus died at 3 p.m., and so—because the devil likes to mock God—the inverse hour of 3 a.m. is considered the time the devil chooses to manifest most ...
God hears our thoughts so it's perfectly OK to speak to Him mentally. The main thing is you are pursuing a relationship with him and can grow to trust him. Prayer shouldn't be pomp and circumstance. Just talk to God throughout the day as if he were your friend.
Yes, we can presume that your husband will still know you and love you. Jesus, however, cautions against thinking of heaven too literally. He said, “At the resurrection they [people in heaven] neither marry nor are given in marriage but are like the angels in heaven ” (Mt 22:30).
With this declaration, Alma identified for Corianton the three most abominable sins in the sight of God: (1) denying the Holy Ghost, (2) shedding innocent blood, and (3) committing sexual sin. Adultery was third to murder and the sin against the Holy Ghost as abominable sins.
Paul also has the same idea in Romans 8, as he exemplifies the working of the Holy Spirit in prayer. Even when we pray with our minds, we can pray amiss. But he intercedes the mind of God for us to God whenever we pray, whether in our understanding or mindlessly, so long as we are praying in faith.
Silent prayers, murmured under your breath, can release divine intervention and shift spiritual atmospheres. It's a supernatural mystery—God hears not only the words of our lips but the whispers of our hearts. There are times when circumstances require us to pray silently, and yet, our prayers are no less powerful.
Please relax and be at peace. The Lord (and Mary, too) hears all our prayers, including the silent ones. In fact, the Bible speaks directly to that.
You are not right with God.
Nowhere in Scripture do we find God say that he will hear and answer the prayer of an unbeliever. Quite the opposite: Psalm 66:18, for instance, says that if we cherish sin in our hearts, the Lord will stop up his ears when we pray to him.
In our hearts we will feel the confirmation that He does hear us, a feeling of peace and calm. We can also feel that everything will be fine when we follow the Father's will. If we doubt that He hears us, we ought to seek guidance in the scriptures and then ask if those things we read are true.
Psalm 109 is powerful because it's a raw, honest prayer of extreme distress and betrayal, calling for God's justice against enemies, often seen as a prophetic model for spiritual warfare, divine retribution against slander, witchcraft, and curses, and a deep expression of trusting God to enact vengeance, not personal revenge, especially recognized for its Messianic implications regarding Judas's betrayal. It's considered a potent prayer because it allows believers to voice deep anger and despair, turning the situation over to God for divine intervention, believing God will reverse evil and punish the wicked.
Encouragingly, there is no biblical reason to believe that praying out loud is more or less effectual than praying silently. We may do either.
God's Thoughts in My Head
One of the ways God speaks to us is through our minds and spirits. Listen to the Apostle Paul describe this phenomenon, “The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. For who knows a person's thoughts except their own spirit within them?
The predominant reasoning lies within religious texts—Jesus was crucified at 3PM, and the inverse of that would be 3AM, making it an hour of demonic activity, according to folklore.
In folklore, the witching hour or devil's hour is a time of night that is associated with supernatural events, whereby witches, demons and ghosts are thought to appear and be at their most powerful. Definitions vary, and include the hour immediately after midnight and the time between 3:00 am and 4:00 am.
Medieval Christians believed blessed bells could disperse evil spirits thought to cause dangerous weather. The practice became so common that some bells were even inscribed with "I ward off lightning and evil spirits." What other unexpected origins of church traditions have you learned about?
The biggest unforgivable sin varies by faith, but in Christianity, it's often seen as blasphemy against the Holy Spirit, a persistent rejection of God's grace, while in Islam, the gravest unforgivable sin is shirk, or associating partners with God, if not repented. Pride is also considered a foundational, serious sin across many faiths, linked to the downfall of figures like Satan.
Of course, when people believe, God is happy. And when they reject Him, He is sad because He knows they will reap the repercussions—not only of future judgment but also the repercussions in their lifetime.
Proverbs 6:16-19 "These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief, A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among ...