We Pray When we should be in fellowship directly with our Creator.  Without direct fellowship we are not heard.  Unless we are in fellowship with יהוה , our prayers go unnoticed before Him.  Unless we are taking Him to heart, and following in His Ways, we are beating the air. Our own heart gives us away, for we are not in fellowship with Him in our hearts when we have in mind our own desires, and we are not going to have our prayers answered when we are asking with the selfishness that we are so accustomed to pursue.  Our only help in time of need is our Creator Who knows our needs and will not give in to our whims of trying to get Him to conform to what we 'seek without Him.' When We Pray We should think clearly when we pray, what our intention really is, for lust of worldly desires will not be heard.  Our only intention must be humble and necessarily devoted to further Hope in our relationship with יהוה-YHVH.  Our heavenly Father knows both our desires and our relationship with Him.  Our heavenly Father knows both our desires and our needs. Our needs are what He wants to answer, and we cannot fool Him with our whims and control issues.  Our Father יהוה knows every thought and intention of the heart and He is aware of even the games that we play in trying to get Him to concur with our passions. When we pray there is no secret desire that is not known.  We are to come to Him in humility, not in pushy intention of self gratification, even when we are praying for others.  There are times that we have ulterior motives when we are attempting to be heard for others sake.  We know our intentions, how much more He knows what we harbor in our hearts. A relationship with יהוה must be our first criteria.  When we have that relationship, and are in His Favor, we then can come to Him with requests. Not for things, for His Will is not to inundate us with things that will eventually come between He and us.  Possessions are an entrapment that controls our emotional disposition, and we come under the influence of them when we are searching for them whether we get them or not.  יהוה - YHVH's intention, to answer or not our prayers, will come between us when we are not following.  Instead we have the tendency to lead, and leading Him is unfortunately what most prayer contains.  How do we know what are our needs? How do we know what will hurt us in our relationship with Him and come between? Whether we know it or not, possessions are a detriment to those who do not come to Him in complete abandon, naked and alone, wishing for nothing other than what He wants to give.  Hence, the desires of our hearts will be given from above when we follow Him, and those things that we then pray for will be what He has put in our hearts to ask for. Moving mountains has absolutely no value to anyone unless יהוה wants it moved.  If He wants it moved, and wants a lesson learned to us, He will place that within us and then and only then will whatever needed moving, get moved.  The only prayer that יהוה has ever answered, are those that He put within our hearts to pray for.  We have not originated one answered request from the beginning of time. We ask and do not receive, as the Apostle spoke, for we ask amiss, that we may consume it in our own lust, even when others were the intended recipient, for even then we at times ask amiss. How can we appreciate a loving Father, when we are constantly trying to control Him with prayer?  How can we appreciate a close interpersonal relationship with control issues?  Is there any difference in relationship with יהוה and relationship with so called friends? Now comes the hard question.  How do we respond to a loving Daddy with a control attitude, seeking only our selfish desires, that when received are unappreciated.  Can we consider that He is beyond understanding the motives of His own creation?  Can we come to Him in complete abandon asking for only those things that He wants to give, knowing that only those things are and will be good for us?  Are we immune to the feelings of others, especially His, when we selfishly ask for desires that originate from our evil hearts? We ask, why our prayers are not answered, without considering that perhaps those prayers cannot even go forth from us, because they cannot exuberate out from a selfish heart.  They remain within us, expectantly waiting for what has no chance of being fulfilled. Our chance of controlling our loving Daddy is less then possible.  We are in control of nothing.  We are only controlled by our own selfishness, and we cannot accomplish anything good through selfishness. In my answer to questions that have attitudes, there is only one response.  "Take it to someone else, for I am not a slave, but free in the hand of my Creator, and only He can make demands of me."  Yet, demands are not even close to what He will ask, for we share the same goals, and those originate from His Throne. We work in harmony with יהוה when we come naked and alone to Him, seeking only His Perfect Will in our lives.  We come to Him with open arms, souls, and hearts, if we expect to receive any reward, and reward is only His response to our coming, acknowledging Him in all that we are.  We are here for His Good Pleasure, not our own.  Somehow we get that backwards when we seek Him.  We seek His Hand instead of His Face, and expect Him to comply!  Not a chance.  Remember, He Loves us. That also means He will not give what will come between. To be in prayer completely is to be in complete fellowship with יהוה, and be in complete reverence to His Power and Humble Might.  We cannot serve two masters.  We cannot serve יהוה and our own desires.  We can be complete in only one service, and partial compliance will only lead to frustration in attempting to manipulate our very Creator.   Attempts to manipulate Him will end in self will and being alone in our endeavors. There is however a power that will cater to our whims and lead/follow us into self service that ends in death -- spiritual death.  This power also has the ability to serve our desires that lead to death and will even request special commitments from us to encourage our self will to dominate our lives.  By following our self will we end up in compliance with the devil. He will give into our whims and our self service and lead us into all sorts of vile and lascivious behavior. Chose you this day whom you will serve, as for me and my house we will serve    י ה ו ה <Hei<Vav<Hei<Yod< Yosef