Prayer is powerful. share your experiences.?

Answer 1

Prayer does no good whatsoever. No one is listening.

Answer 2

I agree that prayer is powerful, but don't get discouraged cause your prayers are not answered in the way or time that you want them to be. God only does what he has planned for you and others. You may pray for something that God doesn't think you can handle so your answer is not an unanswered prayer rather it is NO or not yet or not now you're not ready. God loves you!

Answer 3

It does not work. The idea of prayer simply creates a person to rely on false hope..

99.99% of prayers are never answered and when .1% is answered religious peolpe use that as proof that prayers work

Sorry but that is how I feel.

Answer 4

It's my personal observation that prayers for others often result more positively than praying for self.

Whenever I've prayed for myself, seldom have my prayers been answered. But God has granted me with other privileges to compensate. I have loving parents, affectionate elder siblings, and great friends.

I came to know the power of prayers recently, when on April 17th, I was abducted by 4 gunmen from Karachi. After blindfolding me they drove me for several hours, gave me tranquilizers so I lost consciousness. Their alleged motive was ransom, but they had abducted the wrong person. I resembled another guy from an influential family, whom they actually wanted to kidnap.

To cut the long story short, after two days of absolute hunger ans excessive forced drinking, i was unconscious when I felt that someone has grabbed my shoulder and is waking me up, saying, "Wake up, the time has come". (It was the very same time when my mother, stricken with grief, suddenly felt as if someone has whispered into her ears that I'm coming home, and after that she felt complete serenity).

In brief, at that exact moment, an abductor came inside with a heavy club in his hand. I still don't know whether he came inside to beat my unconscious body to death or with some other sinister plan.

Anyway, I overpowered him, snatched the club from his hands and struck the rear end of his head with all my force (and believe me, I have too much power in my arms when I'm mad). Blows after blows literally smashed his brains when the other abductor entered the room. I had some difficulty overpowering him as he was 6' 3" tall and stoutly built. To this day, I say that was the power of my mother's prayers that filled my body was amazing energy and strength, that I was able to hit that man unconscious as well. When I fled from that place (that was constructed in the middle of a sugar-cane field), another comrade was outside whom I had to dodge and ran away in the fileds, while he shot 3 rounds at me.

After running and walking for approximately 4 hours, I finally found a cop by the side of a highway.

The rest is history. The media presented the story with fanfare. But even today, I believe that some divine spirit was protecting me, and that due to my parents' sincere prayers.

Even at the time when the government authorities told my mother 'to be ready for any bad news', my mother kept on praying to God, believing in Him. That is the power of prayer. Take it from me, I've been there!!

Answer 5

Your prayers can not only change things for yourself, but they can significantly improve the lives of others. It has been said that praying for others is not the least you can do for them, but the most. Your prayers move the heart and hand of God to take action on their behalf.

Through your prayers others can receive most of the same benefits that you receive when you pray for the same things for yourself--including comfort, protection, freedom from anxiety and fear, healing, material supply, and more.

Because you pray you are also in a better position to help others directly. The Lord often uses people as His agents on Earth, so it could very well be that He wants to use you to help bring about the answers to your own prayers. The very fact you pray for others shows that you're concerned about their happiness and well-being, and this puts you in a position to better understand His loving plan for their lives and how you can help bring it to pass. When you pray for someone who is sick, for example, He may show you how you can help stir their slumbering faith and thereby help accomplish His dual purpose for the affliction: to heal them as a testimony to them and others of His miracle-working power, and to cause their relationship with Him to blossom.

When you spend time with the Lord in prayer, He fills you with the fruits of the Spirit, which include love, joy, peace, longsuffering, temperance, faith, gentleness, meekness and goodness. As you receive more of His Spirit, others will see the Lord and His gifts reflected in your everyday life. "We all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord."

Answer 6

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See this little girl on life support? She is my little girl. I prayed for her day and night for 5 weeks. She is alive today, by the Grace of God alone. I am not a religious finatic, and am not even worthy to have asked him to perform such a miracle for me. I don't even attend church.

She is 3 months old now. She HAD Persistant Pulmonary Hypertension in Infants, which can be fatal. She was in NICU level three for 5 weeks. I have been blessed. She was the sickest baby in the ward. She is healthy today.

Answer 7

Yes,God is listening, and he answers prayer,but those who pray will know this and those who dont pray wont agree with this .
You see some people believe that God should be there to serve them when in reality it supposed to be the other way arround .

Answer 8

last christmas, we organized a carolling team to get money for our christmas party, we prayed so hard and we asked for 3,000 bucks, we actually got a check from the company president worth 10,000 plus 3,000 from company supervisors & foreman. that's a blast!! more than what we prayed for... prayer works miracles...

Answer 9

of course ya, one of my experience is when I was senior high school, i had an exam and i didn't prepared yet, so i start to pray to get relax and can answer the question, directly i remember all the subject i learn before, so say thaks for GOD

Answer 10

Where would I start? God has done so many things and all prayer is answered.
Pax, Debra