Exodus 2:23-25

Exodus 2:23-25
English Standard Version (ESV)

  The reality of our world includes sin and brokenness.  I'd love to say otherwise, but since the Fall in the Garden of Eden, the whole of creation has been disrupted, both on an individual level as well as relationally.  We see the effects in ourselves, but we sometimes forget that it is sin that causes conflict between us.  We do not always treat each other well, and the people of Israel experienced this when they were enslaved in Egypt, trapped doing hard, physical labor because Pharaoh was afraid of them.
  But God did not forget the people.  God heard their prayers, and a plan was in place to deliver the people.
  That same God hears our prayers when our lives are disrupted by the brokenness of sin.  When you are hurting, when you are in pain, when you are yearning for redemption, God hears your prayers, and God is at work bringing all of creation towards redemption.  Even when the timeframe of deliverance is longer than we desire, God is still at work, because God hears our prayers.  As Romans 8 says, when we do not know how to pray, the Spirit intercedes with sighs too deep for words.  So even when we cannot form the words to pray, God hears our prayers, and God knows.  We are never forgotten by God.