Psalm 77 teaches us...about prayer: Prayer is designed to help us transcend out problems and troubles by focusing on God Himself. Prayer is not a way to manipulate God into answering all our questions or solving our problems in the way we want them solved. When it seems that God is deaf to our prayers, it is we who are unable to hear our understand. God appears to be deaf to our prayers because we do not want to be sheep that trust the shepherd. We must remember that our shepherd knows more than we can understand. God's deafness is really our lack of trust in the One who has the power to defend His people and control the water, the clouds, the sky, the thunder and lightning, the death of His Son, and the events of our life. When God's Word teaches us to pray, we learn to pray and focus on who God really is and what He has done, It allows us to transcend our troubles even when God appears to be deaf.
Andrew E. Steinmann, "Is God Listening?" page 25
