Why do my prayers never get answered?

But I pray and no answer comes! 

It may seem at times that prayer avails little, but could you see things as they are actually taking place, you would know without a doubt that the smallest prayer, which is voiced even by an unbelieving mind is creating power and bringing assistance as it rises—no waiting—even before the words find expression when they are way back in the physical mind—from that stage, the help is forthcoming.

—Zodiac, the Christ Messenger