yes! I would have many examples...
the biggest would be a few years back when I just felt so desperate. I felt completely lost and I just thought life was horrible. I made a little prayer that came from "nowhere", something like just "SOS". A few months later, I met Jesus, He answered my prayer, and my life began to change.
Now, a few years later, I am a very happy christian. I have sometime some small problems and sometimes some big problems. But Christ is here with me!
Praise the Lord!
2006-07-04 04:21:33
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answered by petitemaison 5
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I lost my baby boy when I was 8 1/2 months pregnant. With out Jesus Christ I could have never made it through the whole ordeal. He gave me the strength to go on with my life. He even showed me in a dream that my baby was in Heaven and doing fine. And that he was not suffering, but having fun and playing. It really set my mind at ease.
2006-07-04 04:22:02
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answered by LuckyWife 5
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When my ex husband left me He sent me amazing brothers and sisters in Christ to put the kids to bed, take me out to talk, and help carry us through.
I got free counseling from an amazing counselor for a year. There also have been a number of times when we were very poor and money would come through some unexpected source-even anonymously through the mail-right when we needed it.
2006-07-04 04:29:03
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answered by Makemeaspark 7
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The fact is, God never answers any prayers. The entire idea that "God answers prayers" is an illusion created by human imagination.
How do we know that "answered prayers" are illusions? We simply perform scientific experiments. We ask a group of believers to pray for something and then we watch what happens. What we find, whenever we test the efficacy of prayer scientifically, is that prayer has zero effect. It does not matter who prays. It does not matter if we pray to God, Allah, Vishnu, Zeus, Ra or any other human god. It does not matter what we pray about. If we perform scientific, double-blind tests on prayer, and if the prayers involve something concrete and measurable (for example, healing people with cancer), we know that there is zero effect from prayer. Every single "answered prayer" is nothing more than a coincidence. Both scientific experiments and your everyday observations of the world show this to be the case every single time.
For example, this article says:
One of the most scientifically rigorous studies yet, published earlier this month, found that the prayers of a distant congregation did not reduce the major complications or death rate in patients hospitalized for heart treatments.
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A review of 17 past studies of ''distant healing," published in 2003 by a British researcher, found no significant effect for prayer or other healing methods.
This CNN article from March, 2006 discusses the fact that the same conclusion was reached in another study:
In the largest study of its kind, researchers found that having people pray for heart bypass surgery patients had no effect on their recovery. In fact, patients who knew they were being prayed for had a slightly higher rate of complications.
A peer-reviewed scientific study published in 2001 did indicate that prayer works. According to this article:
"On October 2, 2001, the New York Times reported that researchers at prestigious Columbia University Medical Center in New York had discovered something quite extraordinary. Using virtually foolproof scientific methods the researchers had demonstrated that infertile women who were prayed for by Christian prayer groups became pregnant twice as often as those who did not have people praying for them. The study was published in the Journal of Reproductive Medicine. Even the researchers were shocked. The study's results could only be described as miraculous."
This study was later proven to be completely fraudulent. However, everyone who cut out the original article in the NYTimes and posted it on their refrigerators still has that article as "proof" that prayer works.
This article entitled A prayer before dying uncovers another case where a "scientific study" of prayer is unmasked as fraudulent.
It's not just prayer that is ineffective. Not even a hopeful attitude helps. According to this article:
A positive attitude does not improve the chances of surviving cancer and doctors who encourage patients to keep up hope may be burdening them, according to the results of research released Monday.
The dictionary defines the word "superstition" in this way:
An irrational belief that an object, action, or circumstance not logically related to a course of events influences its outcome. [ref]
The belief in prayer is a superstition. When a prayer appears to be answered, it is a coincidence. Quite simply, prayer has absolutely no effect on the outcome of any event. The "power of prayer" is actually "the power of coincidence."
Prayer does not work because God is completely imaginary.
2006-07-04 04:25:36
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answered by Anonymous
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In the area of finances, at least 3 times in a big way. Also having 2 handicapped children in many small ways. Sorry about the details,today is July 4th and I'm out the door.
2006-07-04 04:24:25
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answered by rapturefuture 7
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My heavens, I not in any respect were flashed, yet I did accidentally flash some persons once. i became contained in the clinical institution your time back and desirous to take a stoll to the merchandising section. properly, I wasn't questioning about what i became donning and, enable's purely say that those clinical institution gowns do not go away plenty to the mind's eye on the bottom. The nurse got here up from in the back of me and placed a blanket over my shoulders . . . i became questioning why it became slightly drafty back there!
2016-11-30 06:45:08
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answered by Anonymous
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Yes. A few years ago, my mother was dying of cancer. There came a point when she was dead weight; I was helping her move from her favorite chair to her bed and she slipped from my arms onto the floor. I could not get her up. I prayed to God that he give me the strength to get her up. But that did not seem to be his way. She was in no pain, she was not uncomfortable. I just couldn’t get her off the floor. At the end of my prayer the phone rang. A person who used to be in my congregation had moved away years ago and had never called since. Out of the blue she called. After hearing my voice, she asked me what was wrong. I told her. She said: “I’ll be there in ten minutes” and she hung up the phone. Twelve minutes later she was at my door. She helped me get my mother off the floor and into bed. Thereafter, she helped me take care of my mother until she died.
That is just one of many during this time when my mommy was dying.
2006-07-04 04:25:10
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answered by Hannah J Paul 7
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No. I'm going through a tragic moment now.
2006-07-04 04:25:12
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answered by xoɟ ʍous 6
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Oh sure, that happens all the time, he just came over yesterday. Great guy, we talked, had a few beers, then he delivered me. Goldilocks was there too and so was Cinderella. He was hitting on both of them and I think he might have gotten lucky.
2006-07-04 04:25:52
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answered by Anonymous
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I'm not sure. Do I need to see him to be delivered? Or do you mean I could "feel his spirit" and my faith in Him told me he was there? Do people actually believe that they are in the human presence of Christ? Does he speak, using a human voice that can only be heard through human ears? Must one be completely insane to experience this, or can marginally psychotic people witness it? I'm as curious as you are!
2006-07-04 04:23:57
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answered by Anonymous
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