have you had an experience where prayer has worked in your life?

Question

Who has had an actual, concrete experience with God...where he answered your prayer(s) and you knew that without a doubt, he was there listening?

Answer 1

YES!

I was arrested and a drug team was searching my home....I had lots of pot, that was all found. I prayed for the 1st time in 15 years. I figured If I am going to be wrong about Jesus, now is the best time to test it out. I had a half ounce of cocaine under the couch cushion. I prayed my heart out that it would not be found....If it was not, I would give my life to HIm.


As I was held overnight, apparently the search went on into the evening. There was a dog there they said in court, and I knew I was screwed. They also reported small bits of cocaine was found in the kitchen on plastic bags, so this dog has a nose for coke. I went home after being free on bail. My house was destroyed. Golf clubs broken in half, fireplace disassembled, kitchen wrecked.....etc

I went downstairs and only one thing was as I left it, the cushion on my couch. I have 2 couches there, one was torn apart, the other was left completely how it was. I reched under, and there it was. I got rid of it and have not used drugs since.

Also, years ago the pastor and a few of us from church prayed over a lady who had not walked in 10 years. Her feet looked swollen 3x normal size, as well as her calves. They went down before our very eyes and she walked that night.

I'm pretty much sold!

Blessings,
David

Answer 2

I have-- in small things and big things and too many times and too specifically for it to be attributed to anything else. I am absolutely convinced-- by faith, yes, intellectually--yes, but also by concrete, personal experience. Sometimes people wonder why the Lord does not just allow us to see Him and talk with Him and be convinced. He did-- and many folks still did not believe. But those whose hearts were open recognized Him without convincing. Anna and Simeon in the temple are examples.

Prayer is the same way. The fact of its reality and the part it plays in our lives is not recognized by those who resist the Lord. But-- let a crisis come into the life of a doubter or even a full rejector,a nd most will pray.

Answer 3

In your live God gives you lots of tests, to test your strength of faith in him. The question you ask could be kind of personal and lots of people cant really tell about all there personal concerns and problems,they have to talk this out with there God and keep there faith in him strong trough church attendance and personal prayer or reading of the Bible they can learn a lot on how God tested a lot of other people like Job in the old testament. He listens to your prayers, but sometimes when you are mad at him for problems he gave you in your live,and you stop prayer for a long time, he is still out there waiting for your prayer. Hope this will answer some of your doubts that prayer helps."Happy New Year"

Answer 4

You don't have to be a Christian or even believe in God for "prayers" to work. Prayers are sincere, deep wishes & desires of the heart, and miracles can be worked by such wishes & desires.

Miracles and answered prayers occur for athiests as well as those who are religious. No God (or god) is required.

And if God does answer prayers, and prayers can only be answered by God, why are most prayers unanswered? Why, when people pray for their children with cancer, does God let them die? Or when people pray to be healed, are most REAL injuries and diseases not healed (as opposed to "headaches" and other psycho-psomatic conditions)?

If the baby lives, or the disease is healed, we say "Praise God!" But most of the time they're not, regardless of prayer. No one curses God when that happens. They cut him a break - "It was just God's will, and we can't understand God's will..." Get credit for what goes right, get a cop-out for what goes wrong... Nice work if you can get it...

A silly example, perhaps, but imagine a football game where half the people are praying for one team to win, and the other half are praying for the other team to win - no doubt at a Christian school. One team wins. Who did God listen to and why? And why did He deny the other side the answer to their prayers?

Prayer is something inside of ourselves, whether we say it out loud, or silently, or just feel it in our hearts, or whether we express them to God, or Buddha, or just to the stars... Sometimes they are answered. Sometimes they are not.

Pray for a person who's lost an arm to be healed. See if God replaces his arm. Ain't gonna happen. Never did, never will. Prayers may or may not be answered, but answered prayers do not prove the existence of a God, not even the Christian God.

BY THE WAY... Those of you who believe that God does answer prayer... Pray me up a few million bucks, okay? And that God will heal the chronic disease I suffer from. When all that happens I'll talk to you about God answering prayer. In short, and I don't mean to be rude, just succinct, "put up or shut up."

Answer 5

I'll try to be as brief as I can.
After 7 years of marraige and 2 children...my husband joined the delayed entry program for the Navy. We had a car and car payments and full coverage. Joining the Navy would be a pay cut for us.
We wouldn't be able to afford the payments and were risking financial ruin.
Husband put the car up for sail.
The entire year passed of delayed entry program with nary a nibble of interest in anyone wanting to buy our car.
I prayed my lil' heart out and so did my husband.
He still "needed" the car to get to the job he had at the time while waiting to go off to boot camp. He put in his 2 weeks notice as the date for him shipping off approached and we still had the car. I got so worried and prayed,"Lord how can you do this to me. I'm here with 2 small children, no husband and very little support and the very act of my husband joining the Navy could be the thing that destroys our credit, yet both of us feel lead to this decision"....I kept praying. "Please!!! let the car sell".
My husbands LAST day of work, we get a phone call about the car. Before the day was over, the car was sold....the last day my husband would need the car to drive an hour to work and back and a few short days before he went off to boot camp. God knew we needed the vehicle to get hubby to work and managed to allow us to keep it until it was absolutely necessary for us to get rid of it. After a year of advertising and posting signs and asking around, we sold it on the very last day we'd need it and 3 days before it would become an impediment. Thank you Lord. Some might say it was coincidence. Not to me... it was a personal experience that I felt I actually seen God act in our life.

Answer 6

I have never walked on water or seen a burning bush. But I have gone through some very difficult times (especially this last year), and felt God's presence through prayer. I felt a calming of my heart, and a feeling like, despite the stress and fear I was feeling, everything would be o.k.

None of these things God provided for me are dramatic or overly exciting, but nonetheless I see them as miraculous. To find peace in overwhelmingly stressful times is quite a blessing.

peace

Answer 7

many times, most recent was our baby. At birth there was a chance that he may be blind and deaf. For weeks he would not respond to sound. We kept praying and speaking life over him. At 3 months he came down with RSV and almost died. He was in ICU for 17 days, His lungs colapsed two times and we sat there and watched him fight for his life for 17 days. We had to constantly listen to the bad reports of the doctors. We would not receive the negitive reports. We didn't feel like praying because the dispear was so heavy. But we would pray anyway and speak life over him constantly. We had scripture tapes playing in his room all the time. Before the Doctors would do anything they would let us pray with them. He came out alive and well, but his heart was weakened by the whole experience. At one year he had to have open heart surgery. We continued to pray and speak life over him. He came out of the hospital in five days with no complications. He is fifteen months now, strong, active, hearing, seeing. His experience only made him better. God says that when we allow Him in our lives He turns everything for good, Amen

Answer 8

My mother died last year. Long drawn out cancer thing. She knew I was sad and hiding in my tears. She looked at me and said, "I don't know why you are sad, I'm going to a great place and I will let you know when I get there" (I thought it was the medication)

A week after she died (many prayers) the piano played the start of chop sticks (the only song she knew). I thought I was hearing things, by the 3rd time that month, I got it. Peace to all.

Answer 9

I will give you one of the more vivid experiences I had.

My gf and I split up several months ago and it devastated me. I went through several weeks of deep depression. Then one evening I was riding in my car and a song that reminded me of her came out over the radio. I sat there in my car in sheer agony because the memories came flooding back. I felt helpless.

Then the thought of prayer entered my mind. So while in my car I reached out to God and asked him for the strength to beat this mess I was in. I told him that I was helpless without his help.

Suddenly I felt an invigorating draft wash over me. At first I thought it was the car's ac but nothing was coming from the vents. As this cool draft passed through me, I felt my mood elevate and my mind started thinking more positively. I saw my situation from a very positive vantage point.

That was a very obvious act of God. I'm still dealing with my ex-gf's absence but God made it possible to move on.

Answer 10

Any experience of answered prayer is simply coincidence. The one exception is if you are using that time to concentrate on making personal changes in your own life. Then prayer can be beneficial. However, there's no evidence that prayer changes natural laws.