What does it take for God to be moved? When I pray, is that when I see God’s presence moving in my life as He gloriously steps in and delivers me?

Be silent, everyone, in the presence of the Lord, for he is coming from his holy dwelling place. – Zechariah 2:13 GNT

It is in the asking, seeking and knocking as I seek the mercy of God and the work of His hands in my life – prayer moves God and I can see Him coming.

For those who cannot, I am learning that questions help. Such as in the case of Jesus at the pool.

Jesus saw him lying there, and he knew that the man had been sick for such a long time; so he asked him, “Do you want to get well?” – John 5:6 GNT

When I am asked by someone to pray for them I usually do not right away. I am learning to ask them what they want God to do for them? In fact, when I am walking in my neighbourhood and greet someone and share that I would like to pray for them – this is the first question I ask. It gives me discernment at many levels and when I ask God for wisdom as I pray, the Holy Spirit also guides me on how to pray as well.

I was once speaking to a woman who had been a professed Christian, but had given it all up. I asked her why she was not a Christian still. She replied, because she did not believe the Bible. I asked her why she did not believe the Bible.
“Because I have tried its promises and found them untrue.”
“Which promises?”
“The promises about prayer.”
“Which promises about prayer?”
“Does it not say in the Bible, ‘Whatsoever ye ask believing ye shall receive’?”
“It says something nearly like that.”
“Well, I asked fully expecting to get and did not receive, so the promise failed.”
“Was the promise made to you?”
“Why, certainly, it is made to all Christians, is it not?”
“No, God carefully defines who the ‘ye’s’ are, whose believing prayers He agrees to answer.”
I then turned her to 1 John 3:22, and read the description of those whose prayers had
power with God.
“Now,” I said, “were you keeping His commandments and doing those things which
are pleasing in His sight?”
She frankly confessed that she was not, and soon came to see that the real difficulty was not with God’s promises, but with herself. That is the difficulty with many an unanswered prayer to-day: the one who offers it is not obedient. – R. A. Torrey