# 📜 **WHY YHWH DOESN’T HEAR YOUR PRAYERS**
**Hebrew Truth — Not Church Doctrine**
Yhwh is not deaf. He hears everything.
But He **chooses** not to listen when someone walks in rebellion.
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### 1️⃣ **Living in Sin Without Turning Back**
📖 *Yeshayahu (Isaiah) 59:2*
**"But your sins have separated between you and Yhwh, and your iniquities have hidden His face from you, so that He will not hear."**
➡️ If you **know** you’re walking in rebellion and refuse to return — Yhwh will **turn His face away**.
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### 2️⃣ **Rejecting the Torah But Still Praying**
📖 *Mishlei (Proverbs) 28:9*
**"He who turns away his ear from hearing the Torah — even his prayer is an abomination."**
➡️ If you refuse the instructions Yhwh gave, your prayers are **offensive**, not pleasing.
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### 3️⃣ **Lip Service Without Obedience**
📖 *Yeshayahu (Isaiah) 29:13*
**"This people draws near with their mouth and honors Me with their lips, but their heart is far from Me, and their reverence toward Me is taught by the commandments of men."**
➡️ Worship that follows **man’s traditions** instead of Yhwh’s commands is **vain and empty**.
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### 4️⃣ **Unforgiveness and Bitterness**
📖 *Mishlei (Proverbs) 24:17–18*
**"Do not rejoice when your enemy falls... lest Yhwh see it and it displeases Him."**
➡️ If your heart **harbors hate** or refuses to forgive, Yhwh will not bless your voice.
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### 5️⃣ **Praying With Selfish Motives**
📖 *Zekharyah (Zechariah) 7:6*
**"And when you ate and drank, was it not for yourselves you ate and for yourselves you drank?"**
➡️ If your prayer is about **your own lusts**, not Yhwh’s will — **He will not hear**.
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### 6️⃣ **Prideful and Self-Righteous Hearts**
📖 *Mishlei (Proverbs) 16:5*
**"Everyone who is proud in heart is an abomination to Yhwh."**
➡️ Yhwh listens to the **humble**, not the ones who exalt themselves.
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### 7️⃣ **Ignoring the Cry of the Needy**
📖 *Mishlei (Proverbs) 21:13*
**"Whoever shuts his ear to the cry of the poor will also cry himself — and not be heard."**
➡️ You cannot ignore suffering and expect Yhwh to hear your suffering.
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### 🔥 The Truth:
If someone wants **Yhwh NOT to hear them**, they only need to:
❌ Live in sin and **refuse to turn**
❌ Reject the Torah
❌ Offer empty prayers with **no obedience**
❌ Hold onto **unforgiveness**
❌ Pray for **selfish gain**
❌ Walk in **pride**
❌ Ignore the **needy and broken**
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### ✅ But Yhwh Will Hear You IF:
📖 *Divrei HaYamim Bet (2 Chronicles) 7:14*
**"If My people, who are called by My Name, humble themselves, and pray, and seek My face, and turn from their evil ways — then I will hear from the heavens and will forgive their sin and heal their land."**
➡️ **REPENT. HUMBLE YOURSELF. RETURN TO YHWH.**
Then He will **listen, respond, and restore**.
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