Do you have proof that prayers get answered?

Answer 1

I have faith, which for me is the same as proof. God answers the prayers of a righteous person, so that is what I strive to be at all times. Fortunately, God knows I am not perfect, but He does know my heart. He has answered my prayers - and, no, it's not just coincidence, since sometimes His answer is a resounding NO.

Answer 2

Many times prayers are answered without knowing. If I pray the Holy Rosary which is a meditation of the mysteries found in the gospels therefore a prayer of the gospels. I'll petition Mary to go to Jesus to draw souls unto Himself especially those that are in most need of His mercy. How many souls or stories have you heard of someone having a conversion to Jesus? Yet I will have never met or may not even know.

Answer 3

What kind of proof are you looking for? As one poster says "I pray that there is another beer in the fridge." Sure enough, there was...but I'm sure he already knew that.

Prayer is a request to God (or whatever Higher Power you wish to call upon). As a Wiccan, I use spells as my request to my Higher Power. I love hearing from Wiccans (especially new ones) who want to cast a spell for something specific...a new job, more money, the love of their life...but are unwilling to do something for it. Hmmm, if I say these words and sprinkle salt on this and light incense over there, I'll get everything I want. Bullhonky...you want a new job, sure, ask the Universal Powers for help, but get your lazy hiney off the couch and go look for work rather than flippin' the channels between Judge Judy and The Price is Right. Same is said for Christians and prayer...you ask God for help but what are you doing about it. Are you just going to sit there and figure God will take care of everything for you without you doing anything about it? Say you find out you have cancer. You pray that God will cure it. Will you do nothing else or will you go to an oncologist, look at your treatment methods, start treatment, and maybe continue to pray that the treatments actually work? The saying is "God works in mysterious ways." This was explained to me, by a Catholic priest, no less, as "sometimes He helps, sometimes He doesn't. It depends on how badly you want it." I think it's more a matter of how much you're willing to work for what you want.

Good Luck

Answer 4

There is a saying about hockey that you cannot score if you don't shoot. It is the same with prayer. I have had some of my prayers answered which are beyond my comprehension. I would suggest you pray and see what happens. Just keep in mind God is not a super hero and that he expects you to act to make your own prayers come true. He will just make it easier for you to achieve them, thats all. And if you pray, sometimes a miracle will happen.

Answer 5

Yes, many. I'll just give a few examples. When I was pregnant with my daughter, I went into preterm labor at 27 weeks. I was in the hospital for 3 days trying to get my contractions to stop. They finally got them stopped, but I was put on bed rest and put on oral medication to keep my contractions from starting again. The whole time I was in the hospital, I kept praying that the contractions would stop and the doctor would know what to do to keep me pregnant. They kept switching what they were doing to help me stop contracting, and nothing was working. They finally tried something that they said was a long shot, but it worked.

Then, at 36 weeks, my water broke. There was nothing they could do to stop labor at that point, so I had my baby. She was small for gestational age, only weighed 3 lbs 3 oz. Her lungs were under-developed and she was having a very hard time breathing. Her pediatrician called in the flight team from another local hospital that had a NICU, and they decided that she needed to be taken to the other hospital so they could put her on a ventilator and help her breath. They brought her in to see me after they had her hooked up to every tube and needle that she needed. She was so tiny in that incubator! My husband and Father said a special prayer that she would heal and would be healthy. They asked God to have angels surround her and help her to know that she wasn't alone and to help her to be calm. Then she was taken away to the other hospital. I got out of the hospital the next day and we went right to the other hospital to see her. She was still on the vent, but they had reduced the air pressure to almost as low as it would go. That was good news!!

Then that night, we went back up after we had to find an all-night pharmacy to get my meds. We walked into the NICU, and I noticed that she wasn't on the vent anymore. Her nurse came over and said that they had taken her off, and she was on c-pap machine. Her nurse said that they had never seen a baby as tiny as her do so well so fast, and that she wouldn't be on c-pap for very long, probably a day. The next morning when we got there, they had taken her off c-pap and she was just on room air, with no help breathing!! The doctor there said that they had never seen that before.

She was in the NICU for almost a month, less time then anyone thought she would be in, and she has been ahead of everyone in her development. She is very smart and although she is small for her age, she is very healthy. I know my prayers were answered that day and the whole time she was in the hospital.

There are so many others that I have, but these are the most amazing ones that I have had.

Answer 6

I've been praying to get a little for days now with absolutely no answer. My wife says my prayers will be answered on Monday. I guess we will see then.

Answer 7

I can give you several. I have been praying for God to release the muslims to free choice about them being able to choose without the threat of death.
Answered. http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070111/lf_afp/malaysiareligionraceislam

I had a lot of nice clothes once and at that time attended a church of 1500 people, and I asked God if he would have the Holy Spirit point someone out to me that would need these clothes. He did.
Her mom was ecstatic and praying for them also, because it was hard for her to sew anymore.
I prayed for God to get me to Michigan without getting stopped for not have lights on the trailer i was pulling, please blind them I asked. He blinded every cop for 750 miles.
I have asked the Holy Spirit to point things out to me that I have lost because I knew God would know where they were, and he did.
I could go on and on about how many of my prayers have been answered. For others ,and for myself, That would take much typing.
If you have the faith of a mustard seed, you can move mountains. It is true.
If you believe ye will have what you ask , you will, if you do not ask amiss, ie. for millions of dollars for selfish reasons. Prayer must be in tune to Gods will for your life, and in the world around you. You must pray for his will to be done and not your own. You may be praying for something that would cause you greater harm, if he answered.
I know several people that have prayed about buying houses or vehicles, and God didnt answer, so they waited on him to answer and got far better deals.
Prayer works, Answered and Unanswered prayers are the love of God. Praise him for this wonderful gift for the muslims. Its taken a lot of praying to get that one answered, everytime something come up about them, or death in Iraq, etc..I prayed for them. There are reasons he answers , and reasons he doesnt.
The people claiming prayers are coincidental are making God out to be a liar. They are not coincidental, I have prayed very specific prayers, and when they were answered, the Holy Spirit himself had to remind me, that I had prayed about it..Remember how he says the Holy Spirit will bring you to remembrance of all things ?
I have had way to many specific prayers answered for it to be coincidence. Answered in ways humans cannot achieve, do not let people without faith decide for you.
I even wrote a letter for a man that was going to be killed to another country, I asked them to please, please pick up and look at a specific verse in the Holy Bible. On a trip, I got an urging from the Holy Spirit to pull over and get a hotel. I did. I turned on the news after I got there, and lo and behold , they were opening up a Holy Bible,,,The Holy Spirit guided me, to show me that my prayer and my request was answered. Thank God for that mans life.

Answer 8

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:

1.It does not matter who prays.
2.It does not matter if we pray to God, Allah, Vishnu, Zeus, Ra or any other human god.
3. 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

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.

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.

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.

Religious leaders will breathe a sigh of relief at the news that so-called intercessory prayer is medically ineffective. In a large and much touted scientific study, one group of patients was told that strangers would pray for them, a second group was told strangers might or might not pray for them, and a third group was not prayed for at all. The $2.4 million study found that the strangers' prayers did not help patients' recovery.

This is a remarkable example of "positive spin" -- religious leaders are "breathing a sigh of relief" because prayer has been shown to be meaningless. The fact that prayer is a total waste of time does not matter to them. It does not matter that all of Jesus' promises about prayer in the Bible have been proven completely false.

Answer 9

It's not like they work in the first place.

Answer 10

I don't have even a droplet of proof!