For the people who believe in God. Do you believe prayers to God change situations?

Question

My step-dad told me that prayer probably changes the person who prays. I guess they just become a better person by praying. God has just set the world in motion and doesn't do anything really. Who is the person in history that came up with that? Question, do you think God actually changes the world with prayer or prayer changes people?

Answer 1

Yes, God answers prayers that are for your good...

Please read my words carefully:
If you see footmark in the sand, you'll say that someone passed from here...
If you see a piece of dog sh*t on the ground, you'll say that a dog passed from here...
So what about the enormous universe, the sky, stars, planets, earth and all the beauty in it, doesn't it lead to that someone made it?!!!

Some people say that everything is created by itself after the big-bang... I won't ask you about what caused the big-bang, but I'll ask you a simple question:
If you take all the letters of the alphabet, multiples of them, and you threw them randomly on the floor. Do you expect (by a chance of one in infinity) to get a poem like shakespear's??!!

Can't you see how organized our universe is, the planets, the eco-system on earth, look even in your own body... Can you control your heart-beat? Can you control your breath while you're sleeping? Who stopped your eye-lashes from growing after reaching a certain length? Who told the baby turtles to move towards the sea and not to the earth after they come out of their eggs? Who taught the bird how to make nests?

My friend, think with your heart and brain. If you're still lost, think about the following:

Do you know how to play safe?
Non-believer's case:
If there's no God and you do all what you want in life, then nothing will happen to you after life. But if there was God and you were mistaken, then you'll blame yourself FOREVER...

Believer's case:
If there's God and I followed His commands in life, then I'll be in Heaven after life FOREVER. But if there was no God and we're mistaken, then nothing bad will happen to us after life...

Now you know how to play-safe, in case you're not convinced?

Answer 2

Marissa, the bible clearly teaches that prayer changes situations and people.

I pray. God answers. Things happen. Would the thing have happened even if I didn't pray? Of course I can't be sure, but, again, the bible clearly teaches that we are to pray, to intercede for others, etc.

There are scriptures in the bible that say "if you do this and this and this, then God will do this and this and this..." A definite relationship between our actions (prayer and other acts of obedience) and God performing His will.

Once I was hurting for money. I was behind on some bills. I needed almost a thousand dollars! And I told noone about my need - not even my family - noone except God. I pray. I prayed hard!

A week or two later a woman I had never seen before and have never seen since came into my office and handed me an envelope and then walked out the door.

inside was check for $987.00.

this is true. it really is.


god bless

Answer 3

I think prayer is a positive activity. I don't think a prayer will be answered if the solution is within ones own ability to accomplish. I also feel there is a ranking of eternal petitions. An example would be a person praying for food for her children verses a person praying for a new Mercedes. Also, I have problem with people asking God to help them win the ball game while other people are asking God for thing important to the human condition. In an eternal perspective, I think we may be pretty much on our own during this brief period of earth life. Overall, praying is a good thing.

Answer 4

There have been verifiable scientific studies that prayer can help people either directly or indirectly as long as they had someone praying for them.

I know personally prayer works,I have a prayer circle who pray for people and we have had people live longer than the doctors thought with prayers, cancers go into remission.

Now I know the scientific minds and those who are atheists will say coincidence, but I believe there are no coincidences and that something far smarter far more magnificient than us mere mortals created this world and those that came before. The big bang just didn't appear, something or someone had to make the big bang.

So yes prayer does help, God does listen, he just doesn't always answer every prayer. He knows why and it's not our place to question why he doesn't give us what WE want . Rather he gives us what HE wants.

And no I'm not a christian fundamentalist.... I'm a lapsed lutheran with bhuddist tendencies.

Answer 5

My yahoo 360 is full of answered prayers. Some have pointed out that not all prayer is answered the way we ask it. My grandmother and my dad both died from cancer. I was 4 when my grandma died, I had prayed and prayed for her to get better and she didn't. I was five when mom became pregnant. The doctors all told her that she would have a girl. I prayed for a brother. And God answered that prayer with a yes. Mom was mad at me, she was praying for another girl. (How does God choose which prayers get a yes answer or a no or a wait patiently, that's why it's called faith!) We also prayed for healing for my dad to get better. Because of my dad's illness and death, I went to school and became a nurses aid and an EMT. Many people have been helped because of my choices. Dad's wife remarried a wonderful man and they have been in a position that her and dad could never have been in to help me and my family when we needed it. "All things work together for good to them that love God" Romans 8:28

Answer 6

Yes, I think some situations are changed through prayer for God's glory.

I do think that prayer changes the prayer too. As you become closer to God through the relationship of talking to him, you are changed by him. You're changed by his love and his mercy.

Reader's Digest did a story in which they reported that people in the hospital who had others praying for them, actually did better then those who didn't.

Answer 7

Prayer changes people and in turn they are able to change the world because of prayer. So really both.

An example is I had a lady at work that didn't like me and was always saying negative things. I asked to show me how He saw her so I could love her like He does. When I saw her that way I started loving her and surprise, surprise, God changed her...She came in one day and said, I'm going to try and be nice from now on and she and I actually became friends.

Answer 8

Prayer does change things, I am a witness myself. But you have to believe ....have FAITH.

In the Bible

Daniel, was not eaten by the lions in the lions den.

Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, didn't burn fiery furnace.

Paul and Silas was released from jail with the power of prayer.

All this because of PRAYER, these are just a few of the stories in The Bible that talks about a PRAYER !!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 9

Okay, chew on this.. A woman working a party store recently in Michigan was spared her life when she began praying as the armed bandit was about to waste her. She is convinced that her praying saved her life and that God intervened. So I asked my wife if she thought that was the case and she said yes. So then I asked my wife about prayer and wondered if God answers all prayers. She said no. I said yes he does and sometimes the answer is no. What about people whose young children were abducted and brutally violated and murdered. I am sure those parents prayed and prayed. Maybe even the victims prayed.

don't be disappointed when your prayer doesnt get answered how you want it to.

Answer 10

I believe it is both. Prayer draws us closer to God and in doing so He can change our hearts giving us a new view of things. Also when we pray and seek God's will, we can pray seeking His will to be done, and it will work as an answer to prayer.

Answer 11

Sweetiepie, that is the entire purpose of praying. Without prayer, believing in God and Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit, does not make sense. I have personally prayed and seen and felt my life change, so i definitely believe it. I hope the helps. God Bless You.