"And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood."
Does God hear all prayer? Here again, in this verse we have the answer, 'NO'. 'I will not hear you', God says. Such a lie that is continually spread among God's people and the world.
And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you - word study, 'I will' study of God saying this truth; There has always been a description of praying by 'lifting up holy hands' unto the Lord in prayer. We understand that these people are praying. They are seeking the Lord God. What we must understand and communicate with so many people is, you can pray, but that doesn't do any good, if God doesn't hear you. There are billions that stretch out their hands to a god or God, but that is only a part of praying. Prayer is a communication between two parties, God and man. It does me no good to pray to you, I must pray to One that is above me.
You pray to God because He is able to answere and move in great and marvellous ways. 'Spreading forth hands' to God is man's part in prayer. But the hands being spread unto God, must be holy hands. 'Without holiness, no man shall see the Lord.'
