It matters who we pray to or that we belong to the One Who can answer prayer. So many believers have bought into the lie that if we just wish for something hard enough or if we proclaim that we have it, then that is enough for our desires to come to pass. The word "prayer" no longer means to pray to the One Father in heaven in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, but rather it means "the power of the mind" to make things occur through shear intense desire, after which the one praying goes out to make it happen, thereby proclaiming that God answered their prayer when all that happened was they worked so hard to get their desire that they got what they wanted.
We are not to go to God demanding that He give us our desire, we are to appeal to Him as we seek His desire for us. I have prayed many times for things to occur that were desires of mine. God answered some of them but others He has not. The key is to tell God our desire, pray that we see His will in whatever He will do for His glory.
When someone has not been born again, has no interest in the Son of God, then their prayers fall to the ground unheard by the One True God.
1 John 5:14-15
"14 This is the confidence which we have before Him, that, if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us."
Notice the phrase; "if we ask anything according to His Will."
James 4
"4 What is the source of quarrels and conflicts among you? Is not the source your pleasures that wage war in your members?
2 You lust and do not have; so you commit murder. You are envious and cannot obtain; so you fight and quarrel. You do not have because you do not ask.
3 You ask and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.
4 You adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. "
When God refers to someone as an "adulteress" in verse 4, He is telling them that they have placed other things and people above Him. Everyone has done this from time to time, the consequences ought to teach us to more fully trust Christ and seek His desires for us.
Psalm 66:18
"18 If I regard wickedness in my heart,
The Lord will not hear;"
Someone can pray until they are blue in the face, but if they do not know the Lord Jesus Christ, they will not be heard. God hears the prayers of His children, as long as they pray seeking His Will.
James 4
"You quarrel and fight. You do not have, because you do not ask. 3 And when you do ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may squander it on your pleasures. 4 You adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore, whoever chooses to be a friend of the world renders himself an enemy of God.…"
