How We Know a Prayer Is Heard

When, as we pray, no hesitation comes in to break down the confidence of our request with a kind of despair, but we feel that in pouring out our prayer we have obtained what we are asking for, we have no doubt that our prayers have truly reached God. For a person will be heard and receive an answer just so far as he believes that God is looking on him and that God is able to grant it. This saying of our Lord cannot be taken back: “Whatever you ask when you pray, believe that you will receive, and they will come to you.” [a]