Don't you love it when God answers your prayers in way you never thought He would?

Question

Elaine: Amen, I'm glad y'all are getting the rain you needed.

Answer 1

I am astounded by His work. God is a genius.

Answer 2

Hey Coralsnayk,

You know, different people are called to suffer different things while they are on this Earth. If we make so big a deal out of the hardships of this life, and then we’re acting like this life is all there is and that a God who sorts things out for all eternity is some abstract idea, a “maybe.” Being truly saved gives a person a new, superior ability not only to discern right and wrong, but to know what to pray and how to pray it.

I have found not only that the faith Jesus described as being able to move mountains has to not only be true and unconditional, but that God will make your miracles personal to you and transparent to others. In other words, if you did command a mountain to move and it was done for you, everyone else will somehow remember that mountain as always having been over here and not over there. The purpose of miracles and answered prayers does not seem to be to shake people from their disbelief, but the other way around; they happen for people whose beliefs are so strong either for God or against, that the miracle will do nothing to affect their faith either way.

“If God tells us no and then it is rationalized by saying, ‘You don't know what you really need, I do.’” Not only will I say that, sir, but I will praise God for his use of rod and staff to bring upon me all I am called to suffer, in order to stay right with him – to build the testimony that whatever adversity comes my way will not negate his teaching and his law. His way is the right way when everything is going well for me, AND when it isn’t.

What does a crime boss do to test the loyalty of his mob? What does a top secret government entity do to test the loyalty of its agents? Everybody watches that stuff in the movies and on TV because they love it. Now, if you had a good God – a really good God, what would he be worthy of? The Book of Job tells us what. When I go through rough times, I say, “At least it wasn’t as bad as what Job was tested with.”

I don’t buy that twelve-step notion of powerlessness before evil, either. God expects us to resist evil. The knowledge of what Jesus did for us compels us to willingness to commit the effort.

Answer 3

You would love it more if you opened up a bit more to ways that He would answer. God answer's prayers the first moment you acknowledge something that needs prayer... It's our job to be "observant". There is no time limit on prayer however, but we just need to understand that God does answer us in the plain of daylight too...

I agree with you though.. God has answered me in more ways than one. Places and circumstances that I would have never thought before... some people might even think of it as "in the shadow of death"...

Here's how He has answered my prayers with what I should do with my teachings... (as a professional dancer and choreographer)
http://blog.360.yahoo.com/oceanremix
or
http://geocities.com/oceanremix/linesoftruth.html

Answer 4

Yes,I live in Georgia and Sonny prayed for rain yesterday ,we all did,guess what,it,s raining cat,s and dog,s ,the road,s are
full and all of us say Thank You God.

Answer 5

you in just a quick sense''God loves a person walk in the righteous way of life and im still working on it to be at least or even better''and i received yes i feel it i dont walk alone he's helping or guiding me

Answer 6

I do I REALLY do because it just reminds me of how He is...unexplainable but I figure you know what I mean by your question. Cool short story, check it out. There's a lot of home issues going on with an un-employed parent, threats of foreclosure etc. and one day on my way to work I started praying because I was feeling really strange, really anxious. Then I realized it was fear I was feeling from everything going on, it was beginning to overwhelm me. Not even a minute after I began praying about it, one of those dump trucks passed me on the interstate and it said "JESUS, the Waymaker, He will always make a way". On a TRUCK. I was like OH MY GOD THANK YOU!!! Haha, He's so cool :)

Answer 7

Not always.. especially when the answer is no.

If God "knows what's best for us", why pray? Sounds like he has it covered already, and is just going to do what he wants to anyway.

Shortly after I was saved, I had been studying the bible for over a year and I prayed as commanded (in Jesus' name) for the desire of my heart which was, "God if you don't want me to be gay, let me convert. I put it in your hands, because I am powerless to change this." Here I am, 18 years later, still gay. So I must be just the way I am meant to be unless God is a liar. Did I not pray hard enough? Well, I know I did. Did I pray for the wrong thing? No, the bible said,, "Whatever you ask for in Jesus name" will be given to you. This was not a whimsical desire, but one that was in line with what I understood to be his teaching.

I knew that by my honesty, I would get thumbs down. Remember my standard. Thumbs up = I am right.. Thumbs down = I'm right and you're pissed because of it. Nothing I said above is a lie. If you doubt me, try praying for someone according to their real need and see if they get it. If God tells us no and then it is rationalized by saying, "You don't know what you really need, I do." then that's the same odds as not praying at all. Did the people in the Nazi concentration camps not pray to God to spare them? Of the ones that suffered and died a lingering death do so because it's what they really needed?

Answer 8

Yep. I know exactly what you mean. You pray for something, hinting in a certain direction, and expect him to give you exactly what you want. But you don't get it. And don't get it. And don't get it. Then you get something incredibly better than you ever expected.

Answer 9

That is what makes praying so exciting. I never dreamed that I would be instantly healed a few weeks ago, even though I had prayed for many years. What a surpise!

Answer 10

You're looking for meaning in things without meaning