What prayers of yours have been answered?

Question

I've read a few articles about the ineffectiveness of prayer..but wonder if believers have anything to counter the articles and studies that say prayer dont work

Answer 1

Prayers really do not work. If they could work certawinly no babies would be dying of any disease or accident , since no prayer would be mor sincere and honest than that of a mother in respect of hie baby and banies could certainly be free from sins too.
Again belief has an effect on h eminds of the presons believing on something , a soothing effect ,though the belief has really brought nothing .even if the belief in on something unreal and false , the blind belief has some good assuaging effect on the mind of he believers. tothis effect prayers , though ineffectie , can be administered to persons in distress .The effect is physchosomatic .the well-informed and well-knowig person is at a disadvatage in this matter as he being fully aware that prayer would fetch nothing would not find any succour from anthing else .may e he would take his misfortune in his strides ,if he is a strong -willed person.But the fact remains that prayer would fetch nothing .
according to the Hindu philosphy also , action has its reaction , whatever be the status of the person.Karma is so powerful that even the Gods won't be spared .This culktue , philosophy ios so scientific, true ,fair and just in a very high degreeand eliminates the very nature for committing sins under any circumstance. There is no pardon for sins .The only thing is that the effect of he karma can be taken over by some one who wants to sae the person in distress .The effect can never be nullified .
This is scientific and logical. Every principle of the Hundu culture and tradition has such a fine proven scientific principle as its foundation.

Answer 2

I've seen some incredible things.

I have years of witnessing prayers having impact on my life, and on others lives.

Answer 3

Well I was having a bad day once and i broke my shoe and and I needed it to do something and I could fix it then I said to God " I really need you and my shoe broke and I need it to finish out the day" and he listented to me and the next minute I thought of a great idea and I fixed it. He also helped me forgive my friend.

Answer 4

I believe that all my prayers have been answered . It may not be according to what i have prayed . but finally my father in heaven know what is best for me . it is more to do with faith.


in regard with faith have a look at this interesting conversation about faith


An atheist professor of philosophy speaks to his class on the problem science has with God, The Almighty. He asks one of his new students to stand and.....

Prof: So, you believe in God?
Student: Absolutely, sir.

Prof: Is God good?
Student: Sure.

Prof: Is God all-powerful?
Student: Yes.

Prof: My brother died of cancer even though he prayed to God to heal him. Most of us would attempt to help others who are ill. But God didn't. How is this God good then? Hmm?
Student is silent.

Prof: You can't answer, can you?
Let's start again, young fellow. Is God good?
Student: Yes.

Prof: Is Satan good?
Student: No.

Prof: Where does Satan come from?
Student: From...God...

Prof: That's right. Tell me son, is there evil in this world?
Student: Yes.

Prof: Evil is everywhere, isn't it? And God did make everything. Correct?
Student: Yes.

Prof: So who created evil?
Student does not answer.

Prof: Is there sickness? Immorality? Hatred? Ugliness? All these terrible things exist in the world, don't they?
Student: Yes, sir.

Prof: So, who created them?
Student has no answer.

Prof: Science says you have 5 senses you use to identify and observe the world around you. Tell me, son...Have you ever seen God?
Student: No, sir.

Prof: Tell us if you have ever heard your God?
Student: No, sir.
Prof: Have you ever felt your God, tasted your God, smelt your God? Have you ever had any sensory perception of God for that matter?
Student: No, sir. I'm afraid I haven't.

Prof: Yet you still believe in Him?
Student: Yes.

Prof: According to empirical, testable, demonstrable protocol, science says your GOD doesn't exist. What do you say to that, son?
Student: Nothing. I only have my faith.

Prof: Yes Faith. And that is the problem science has.
Now the student said can I ask something to you, Professor.

Student: Professor, is there such a thing as heat?
Prof: Yes.

Student: And is there such a thing as cold?
Prof: Yes.

Student: No sir. There isn't.

(The lecture theatre becomes very quiet with this turn of events.)

Student: Sir, you can have lots of heat, even more heat, superheat, mega heat, white heat, a little heat or no heat. But we don't have anything called cold. We can hit 458 degrees below zero which is no heat, but we can't go any further after that. There is no such thing as cold. Cold is only a word we use to describe the absence of heat. We cannot measure cold. Heat is energy. Cold is not the opposite of heat, sir, just the absence of it.
(There is pin-drop silence in the lecture theatre.)

Student: What about darkness, Professor? Is there such a thing as darkness?
Prof: Yes. What is night if there isn't darkness?

Student: You're wrong again, sir. Darkness is the absence of something.
You can have low light, normal light, bright light, flashing light... But if you have no light constantly, you have nothing and its called darkness, isn't it? In reality, darkness isn't. If it were you would be able to make darkness darker, wouldn't you?
Prof: So what is the point you are making, young man?

Student: Sir, my point is your philosophical premise is flawed.
Prof: Flawed? Can you explain how?

Student: Sir, you are working on the premise of duality. You argue there is life and then there is death, a good God and a bad God. You are viewing the concept of God as something finite, something we can measure. Sir, science can't even explain a thought. It uses electricity and magnetism, but has never seen, much less fully understood either one. To view death as the opposite of life is to be ignorant of the fact that death cannot exist as a substantive thing. Death is not the opposite of life: just the absence of it. Now tell me, Professor. Do you teach your students that they evolved from a monkey?
Prof: If you are referring to the natural evolutionary process, yes, of course, I do.

Student: Have you ever observed evolution with your own eyes, sir?

(The Professor shakes his head with a smile, beginning to realize where the argument is going.)

Student: Since no one has ever observed the process of evolution at work and cannot even prove that this process is an on-going endeavor, are you not teaching your opinion, sir? Are you not a scientist but a preacher?

(The class is in uproar.)

Student: Is there anyone in the class who has ever seen the Professor's brain?

(The class breaks out into laughter.)

Student: Is there anyone here who has ever heard the Professor's brain, felt it, touched or smelt it? No one appears to have done so. So, according to the established rules of empirical, stable, demonstrable protocol, science says that you have no brain, sir. With all due respect, sir, how do we then trust your lectures, sir?

(The room is silent. The professor stares at the student, his face unfathomable.)

Prof: I guess you'll have to take them on faith, son.
Student: That is it sir... The link between man & god is FAITH. That is all that keeps things moving & alive. .


WHO THE STUDENT WAS?

This is a true story, and the student was none other than



DR. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, President of India.

Answer 5

Probably all of them, just not always in the way I wanted or could recognize.