If you sense that no one is listening don't give up, keep obeying God. He may tell you to stop speaking or He may tell you the time is right to speak. He knows, one thing we should not do in our day of apostasy is listening to those who are not obeying Christ. Those who obey the culture will be tainted with the thinking of that culture. They do not think with the mind of Christ. We must seek Him alone in our day.
Noah preached many years (120 possibly) and no one would listen and no one would be saved except the members of his own family. 8 people and the animals were on that ark when God closed the door.
Genesis 7:15-16 "…15 They came to Noah to enter the ark, two by two of every creature with the breath of life. 16 And they entered, the male and female of every living thing, as God had commanded Noah. Then the LORD shut him in."
Jeremiah was commanded to preach to the people, God told him they would not listen but he should preach anyway.
Jeremiah 7:26-28 "…26 Yet they would not listen to Me or incline their ear, but they stiffened their necks and did more evil than their fathers. 27 When you tell them all these things, they will not listen to you. When you call to them, they will not answer. 28 Therefore you must say to them, ‘This is the nation that would not listen to the voice of the LORD their God and would not receive correction. Truth has perished; it has disappeared from their lips.…"
Then there are times when God says not to bother praying for the people.
Jeremiah 11:14 "14 As for you, do not pray for these people. Do not raise up a cry or a prayer on their behalf, for I will not be listening when they call out to Me at the time of their disaster. "
How do we know when to speak or pray and when not to do these things? Its very simple, seek the Holy Spirit and He will guide you.
Above all do not follow your feelings they are not accurate, they are full of the flesh.
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