When I was not a Christian, why didn't God answer my prayers?

I was praying to the wrong God. I was worshiping in the wrong way. If He answered my prayers then what kind of lesson would that have taught?

But when I agreed to let Jesus lead me, He did. He led me to the true Gospel and the truth of who He was by teaching me with the Roman Road to Salvation, the book of  1 John, and John chapters 4, 7, and 14.

And even before then, I can see how God the Father was slowly leading me to Jesus. John 6:44