Does God answer the prayers of the ungodly or the bad people.

We are all Gods children..If a person does not believe in God to some extent they would not be praying....I think God hears all prayers and if it is his will to answer he will,some prayers like foolish prayers i do not think God answers...I have heard people say things like I am going to pray that God punishes her,he does not answer silly prayers like that....The Bible clearly says that anyone asking anything of God and believing in their heart & have faith God hears their prayers.I do not care if they are sinners or not..You cannot buy your way into God kingdom by good works...We are all sinners saved by grace....We love our children & want the best for them even though they may not be doing what we feel is the right thing..So yes i do believe that God loves us all & hears all of our prayers..If God does not hear a sinners prayer ,how could they be saved? makes no sense to me ...

Our God works in mysterious ways we shouldn't try to out guess him but if an unrighteous PERSON prays for something to the detriment of a Christian i don't think he would ANSWER!

The ungodly don't pray and get, you the godly pray and don't get. Before you go any further something is wrong. Maybe you don.t know how to pray or prayer is worthless. What do you think is happening?. Any idea?.

I was not a bad person but also not particularly godly and God has always answered my prayers. Now I have become more spiritual than I used to be. How can one not appreciate their blessing by showing gratitude through increased faith

Last time I looked, God answered ALL prayers from ALL of His children ... it's just that those prayers aren't always answered in the way we would like them to be answered. No is still an answer Wait is still an answer Be still is still an answer

I think people are a little presumptuous when they decide whose prayers God should answer. Nobody but God knows what's in the heart of petitioners. There is no way to say which prayers should be answered. That's up to God's wisdom. There are times when people we perceive as "ungodly" get breaks that believers don't. But that's part of the plan. Life isn't fair, God never promised that it would be. As for a doctor choosing between a godly person and an ungodly person, that's not the doctor's place. Doctors save people. It doesn't matter what kind of person they are. Even if the doctor did make a choice, God isn't the one responsible. The doctor is. As for a bad thing making you turn to God being the wrong way to come to God, I would argue that anything which turns someone's heart to God is good. Whether you start out selfish or pure-hearted, all that matters is where you end up. Many a faithful person started out on the wrong path, only finding enlightenment along the way. Abraham Lincoln once said, "I have often been driven to my knees, because I had no where else to go." It's the truth.

I don't think He does but if it's true then yea I would be mad However I believe that if I haven't done anything wrong I wouldn't lose a fight and yea I never do it could be long years of fight or a few hours it happens if I was wrong though things could get awfully sore for me but well everybody pays for their mistakes right? Bad people or bad intentions can not win if none of us let it to if everyone choose to do good, which is God's way, heaven on earth isn't impossible but most people don't, and that has nothing to do with God answering their prayers it's just that their own gods have more followers

Well I myself am a believer in God I wont say I am Godly but I do believe and I do pray not only for the things I need answered but for alot of other people and I dont think God would not answer anyones prayers because he thought they werent godly enough. I dont think I have the right to blame because I am not the person.You have a great night.

We are ALL "bad people." God loves us even though we're all sinners, so, the answer MUST be: yes -- IF the prayer is sincere, not vain & self-serving, He hears it. I'm convinced He also ANSWERS all prayers. It's possible, however, that a TRULY "bad person" could flat out refuse to hear (or like) His answer. If you doubt that, remember what Christ Himself said, that there is only ONE "unforgivable" sin: the "denial" (in the modern tongue, we would say the "REFUSAL") of the Holy Spirit. This is sad, but it's because God will not _force_ ANYONE to accept Him. People send themselves to Hell. And the true pain of Hell is the absence of all God's love & light. Maggiepie

Well I don't pray at all as I just do not believe any more, so I must be one of the ungodly or bad people. Why if you are ungodly would you want to pray, you would surely want your prayer to be answered there and then and then go back and be bad??!! I do respect people who believe and I have no problem if they want to pray and it makes them feel good, its just not my thing anymore.

Don't try to put the blame on anyone. A lot of people come to God because their lives have reached a point they can no longer handle it. That is exactly how I came to God. My personal life, my marriage and everything around my family was falling apart. Everything I did to try and fix it just made it worse. I finally reached a point that I had no choice but call on God for His help. Very often God hears and answers the prayers of people not considered to be Christians. How else could a person ask God to forgive his sins?

For me, I would be mad at the devil but not at the unrighteous man. I think it's not really out of fear that unrighteous and ungodly people turn to God. It would be more lke they find that small piece of belief of faith in their hearts just like shipwreck survivor finding a piece of floating wood in the sea. Finding the way back to God, I admit, is not easy. The devil infused our hearts with PRIDE -- the one thing that caused the devil's downfall in the first place -- that is why whe think we have become unworthy to reform ourselves and go back to God. Actually, God is ever patient and waits for us to do so. We just have to learn to let go of pride, open up our hearts to His messages and we might just be able bring back the broken pieces of our faith. Blessed are the people who have already found their ways to God. I guess it would be a bigger blessing if they help those who are stray rather than despise or blame them.

YES. GOD answers prayers to everyone whether if you are non believer, religious person, good or bad. Its between God and the one who pray. God answers prayers in different ways to make you realize on something for yourself or for you to understand the situation. YES, LATER, NO, NOT NOW, NEVER. Its you yourself can tell. If God grant it to you or maybe later on because you doubt your own prayers and Never...since you did not specify exactly on your prayer what you what or need. i dont know if anybody understands what im trying to say..but it is what is in your heart of you deserved an answered prayers.

God never made a selection which people to answer. There are those that spread the words of God but don't live them. There are also people that live God words but keep it for themselves, but what matters most is when we pray, we pray, God don't seek what you've done but rather God see's what is in your heart. If God leads you the edge of a cliff, trust Him and let go, cause either one of the two things will happen, its either He'll catch you if you fall or He'll teach you how to fly.

I would think non believers wouldn't be praying to God. But if they do then they really aren't non believers and no one can say whether he would answer them or not.

Dont blame anyone! For if there is a god he should be able to save all ! For he is god and he can do all .

i think that's the secret of God no one knows God answer or not to bad people, God not seeing people from good or bad, HE look from the heart of someone.

If God only answered prayers of believers or good people, He would nix any chance of reforming bad people. If your child turned out to be a bad person, would you ignore his pleas if you could save his child? No, you'd do your best and hope that he would see that there is a chance for him to change his ways. He would see that if he emulated you, he might be happier. I think God thinks the same way. So yes, I do believe God answers the prayers of everyone if it's in their best interests.

suspenseful nobody knows how God decides who to answer prayes for, we are just guessing and guessing doesnt cut it. lets just go ahead and pray and let God figure it all out. not blaming anyoneas we cannot see into God's mind. maybe we all come out of faith and fear, as we come upon big problems that leave us gasping and grasping for help. I do not blame anyone.

hi 1st of all we need to understand that we have two aspects - physical self and mental self. How can we judge whether a person is good or bad? May be his heart is full of love and devotion for the god, but pretends to be a non-believer. Life cycle is a drama for the god. HE directs all of us and knowingly or unknowingly we act as HE wants us to act. We feel the pain or joy because HE wants it. Whether HE'll listen to my prayer that is absolutely HIS business and i have no right to question. Prayer, pain and joy are related to physical self which is perishable. Mental self, better known as Soul is eternal. Soul is a part of the supreme power, god. But, inside our body, soul plays the role of a mere witness. For some of us, as wisdom preveils, soul takes control of our senses and let us realize that the universe is nothing but a big stage and we are nothing but actors and god is the omnipotent director. As cloud of darkness is removed by wisdom, we find there is no bad or good man, no point of turning to god or to pray to HIM. Whatever my physical self is doing is just responding according to god's direction. We act as HE wants. We are good and believe in god, because HE wants us to be so. SOme of us are bad and don't believe in god or pray for selfish needs, because HE wants them to be so. May be who is bad today, tomorrow he'll become good and vice versa. That's why its truely called God's universe. HE and only HE is the the supreme LORD.