The eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers (1 Peter 3:12)
As a teacher with many years of teaching experience in high school and college, I have looked after different types of students. One of them is that those I call have attention only me and the teacher. This student establishes a face-to-face conversation with the teacher as if no one else is in the class. A teacher's rhetorical question, for example, will be answered verbally by this student, regardless of other people's reactions. Even though there were other students in the class, this one seemed to think that it was just me and the teacher.
Recently, when I watched one such student and saw him controlling the teacher's attention, I came to think that God must want to show something through the event. The disciple has a focus that all of us need to have when we pray.
The thought that there are millions of other Christians talking to God while we pray, need not make us feel less important before God. No, when we speak to God the Present, the All-Knowing, the Almighty, we can feel confident that He is giving us His full attention. David said, This oppressed man cries out, and the Lord hears (Psalm 34: 7). God always directs His sole attention to our praises, supplications, and concerns.
When you pray, to Him you are the only person He listens to -JDB
EVEN IF MILLIONS OF PEOPLE
ARE ASKING FOR GOD'S ATTENTION IN PRAYER
HE LISTENS TO THEM ONE BY ONE
*) Take from Daily Devotional