God hears the voice of the believer. This psalm points that it IS okay to prayer out loud. Sing your praises and prayer and petitions to God! God does hear His children. Go back to Psalm 115 for a moment.

Psalm 115:2-8 Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is now their God? (3) But our God is in the heavens: he hath done whatsoever he hath pleased. (4) Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands. (5) They have mouths, but they speak not: eyes have they, but they see not: (6) They have ears, but they hear not: noses have they, but they smell not: (7) They have hands, but they handle not: feet have they, but they walk not: neither speak they through their throat. (8) They that make them are like unto them; so is every one that trusteth in them.

The heathen, the lost, the unbeliever, the pagan want to be able to see God, that is why they build idols so they can have a god they can see and touch. But look at what Psalm 115 states: the idols have eyes but cannot see; the idols have mouths but cannot speak; the idols have hands and feet but cannot move. What kind of gods are these that have to be picked up and carried around by their worshippers? God does not need us to carry Him – why? Because He already resides in the believer. 1 Corinthians 3:16 Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?

God is superior to idols because He is real and He hears us and loves us. It seems like most idols that are made are ugly, fearsome looking things. When Ezekiel was taken by the Spirit of God to see the Temple in Ezekiel chapter 8, he described the idols he saw in the Temple of God like this: Ezekiel 8:10 So I went in and saw; and behold every form of creeping things, and abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, portrayed upon the wall round about. Note that Psalm 115 tells us: Psalm 115:8 They that make them are like unto them; so is every one that trusteth in them. The makers of the idols are really only reflecting themselves onto their statues and that is what we see today; people trying to remake God in their own image. On February 5, 2010, President Obama held a prayer breakfast at the White House. President Obama calls himself a Christian and yet, at no time did he mention the name of Jesus Christ. One would think that if you were a follower of Jesus Christ, you would want to share Him with others especially in a room full of Muslims, Hindus, Jews, and other religions.