Attentive and Responsive...

FOR THE EYES OF THE LORD ARE [looking favorably] UPON THE RIGHTEOUS (the upright), AND HIS EARS ARE ATTENTIVE TO THEIR PRAYER (eager to answer), BUT THE FACE OF THE LORD IS AGAINST THOSE WHO PRACTICE EVIL. (1 Peter 3:12) In the morning, O LORD, You will hear my voice;

In the morning I will prepare [a prayer and a sacrifice] for You and watch and wait [for You to speak to my heart].

For You are not a God who takes pleasure in wickedness;

No evil [person] dwells with You.

The boastful and the arrogant will not stand in Your sight; You hate all who do evil. ( Psalm 5:3-5)

The LORD is far from the wicked [and distances Himself from them], But He hears the prayer of the [consistently] righteous [that is, those with spiritual integrity and moral courage]. (Proverbs 15:29)

If I had harbored sin in my heart, that is, if I know it is there and do nothing about it], The Lord will not hear [me];

But certainly God has heard [me]; He has given heed to the voice of my prayer.

I praise God, Blessed be God, Who has not turned away my prayer Nor His favor, Nor turned his faithful love from me.

(Psalm 66:18-20)

This is the [remarkable degree of] confidence which we [as believers are entitled to] have before Him:

We have courage in God's presence, because we are sure that he hears us if we ask him for anything that is according to his will. [that is, consistent with His plan and purpose] He hears us. And if we know [for a fact, as indeed we do] that He hears and listens to us in whatever we ask, we [also] know [with settled and absolute knowledge] that we have [granted to us] the things which we have asked from Him. (1 John 5:14-15) It shall also come to pass that before they call, I will answer; and while they are still speaking, I will hear. (Isaiah 65:24)

Call to Me and I will answer you, and tell you [and even show you] great and mighty things, [things which have been confined and hidden], which you do not know and understand and cannot distinguish. (Jeremiah 33:3) It is He who reveals the profound and hidden things; He knows what is in the darkness, And the light dwells with Him.(Daniel 2:22) The Light shines on in the darkness, and the darkness did not understand it or overpower it or appropriate it or absorb it [and is unreceptive to it]. (John 1:5)

He reveals mysteries [that are difficult to grasp and understand] from the darkness and brings the deepest darkness into the light. (Job 12:22) This is the judgment [that is, the cause for indictment, the test by which people are judged, the basis for the sentence]: The Light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the Light, for their deeds were evil.

Those who do evil things hate the light and will not come to the light, because they do not want their evil deeds to be shown up. (John 3:19-20) I have come as Light into the world, so that everyone who believes and trusts in Me [as Savior—all those who anchor their hope in Me and rely on the truth of My message] will not continue to live in darkness.

If anyone hears My words and does not keep them, I do not judge him; for I did not come to judge and condemn the world [that is, to initiate the final judgment of the world], but to save the world. (John 12:46) Jesus spoke to the people once more and said, I am the light of the world. If you follow me, you won’t have to walk in darkness, because you will have the light that leads to life. (John 8:12)