Have you had a prayer answered? Any religion...?

Question

In the course of human history, many people have claimed answered prayers. If you filter out the ones that can be explained by normal means and/or coincidence, that still leaves a lot. And those prayers have been answered for people of all religions... and none. Have YOU had a prayer answered? If the only explanation for the resulting event is that who/whatever you prayed to actually intervened in the "normal" flow of events, how do we explain that? Let's see what's out there. Everybody...

Answer 1

Hmm? True Story:

When I first became a Christian at the age of 24, I used to go with a church group to a "Senior Care Facility" (old age home).
I would visit various rooms and write down the most desperate cases in need of prayer. So, then I could pray for them during the week.
Well in a 3 week period, I had something like nine straight "old folks" up and die on me. I was soon receiving "requests" from the patients to take them OFF my prayer list.
I explained that I just prayed for the "Lords Will" to be done in every case. But, as one old guy told me, "I think I'll just take my chances". lol
Being such a new christian, I didnt understand why anybody WOULDNT want the Lords will to be done. But my Pastor suggested I find another place of our Churchs ministry to serve. lol.

Moral of the Story: Be sure you want the Lords will if you ask ME to pray for a sick loved one. lol


...theBerean

Answer 2

I became a Christian 11 years ago. Here are two experiences of answered prayer:

(1) A few days after my baptism, I was at a home Bible study group and I asked for prayers that I would be convicted by the Holy Spirit. That night, after I'd gone to bed, the Holy Spirit entered me, not once, not twice, but three times. I was scared, amazed and comforted. I knew it wasn't a dream. No way could I have ever invented such an experience. Careful what you ask for, eh?

(2) Some 8 years later, I had occassion to pray for my husband while I was away from home. Through no fault of his own, he was having difficulties with his business. At the time, I had been sent to London to help out with a major police operation. When I returned at the weekend, I knew something was dreadfully wrong. I told my husband I would not go back to London for the second week, that he was more important to me than work. I would rather be at home for him. He insisted he was fine and that I should go. Reluctantly, I agreed, but not before taking the matter up in prayer.

On the Tuesday evening, in my hotel room, I got a terrible sense of foreboding. I prayed for my husband and also got my sister and minister and prayer group to pray for him too. Nothing specific, just that he needed prayer support. I phoned my husband and he told me he was all right, but I was not assured.

I came home that Friday and my husband told me he had been planning to take his life, but something prompted him to pray for help. He had it all worked out, but he heard a voice say to him, "No, don't do that. Walk over to the hospital. You will get help there." Which is exactly what he did, and he was seen immediately by professionals who gave him the support he so desperately needed. Furthermore, he told me that the experience made him realise that God was real, that God cared for him and that it was divine intervention that stayed his hand.

Some might scoff and say it had nothing to do with God. He and I know better, that it was answered prayer, and we thank God. Often we have to be at our very lowest ebb, literally on our knees, before we cry out for for help. There is no doubt in my mind that God responds to those cries. My husband is now a Christian.

Answer 3

I'm not sure if this is a false memory or not.

When I was very young I somehow learned about dry ice. I was very interested in it, I was interested in everything then. So I actually prayed for some dry ice in the back of the isuzu my mom was driving and then she saw a white block of something sitting in the road she stopped to see what it was and it turned out to be dry ice. I had been talking with her about it before so she gave it to me, giving me a million warnings about frost bite with it. I still burned myself a bunch of times and then I started making dry ice bombs and lost some hearing in my right ear (I did a lot of my own learning as a child). I also prayed for a sega (video game console) when I was young and got one of those too.

I would say it's an extraordinary coincidence or I didn't really pray for it.

Answer 4

Yes. I asked if I should change jobs and move to a differnet state. I was answered yes, so I did. 2 weeks later the building I would have been in was destroyed by a tornado. No one was hurt because they heard the siren and went to the nearest area in the building. I would not have heard the siren in the office I used to work in so I would have been the only casualty. That's one example of an answered prayer I've had.

Answer 5

Thats a difficult question to answer. My Dad was diagnosed with end stage prostate cancer with bone metatis in 2003, he was told by his doctor that he would not live to see 04. We are now half way thru 07 and he is still alive and kickin' (kind of). Is that the result of pray, God's plan, or the human spirits will to live?? I don't know

Answer 6

I used to have a liver disease that Dr.s/science said was going to kill me. I prayed for healing a priest layed hands on my forehead and have been healed ever since.

Answer 7

many times.... my son had the biggest temperature at 3 am one day and I kneeled and started praying and not even 1 hour and he didn't have anything anymore....

Answer 8

Nope, never, not once.

Answer 9

ditto bloody...