Has Prayer worked for you ?

Question

How do you know ?
How do you pray ?

Answer 1

We pray to say thank you and to ask for guidance. Then we be still and listen for the answer.

Listening is the most important aspect of praying.

God wants to talk to us but most of us are too busy asking for things to listen.

When you pray get your talking over as soon as possible, and just listen.

There is no one that God is not talking to, there are just people who are not listening.

Love and blessings Don

Answer 2

Yes, prayer works for me. I pray with all my heart...God looks for a sincere heart. Sometimes I’m on my knees, sometimes I’m at the table, where ever I feel a need or want to speak with the Lord. I keep some of my prayers documented in a journal and look for God to lead me to an answer, to speak his desire to me. God has answered my prayers. I’m praying for something specific right now…I know he will answer I just have to be patient. All things in his time and his will.

Answer 3

Prayer always works, because God has 3 answers: Yes, No, or Wait.

Which basically means that praying to a goldfish or a brick wall will give you those same answers. So, prayer works. Always.

I never pray, btw.

Answer 4

Yes, prayer works for me! It often takes a lot longer than I want for me to get results, but it's nice to know that God is always listening and taking to heart what I say.

When I pray, I just kneel down on my bed, begin by repenting the sins I committed during the day, and I just kind of pour out my thoughts, thank God for some things, and ask for stuff that I know he'll want me to have, e.g. patience or compassion.

I eyewitnessed a sick old lady get healed in 20 minutes by prayer. What's more, the person whom God used to heal her was my 12 year old brother. Here's the story:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AtQ2QX_5nUvhFSER71jQe8rty6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20071226224531AAl8e0z&show=7#profile-info-VlROHHkmaa

Answer 5

As an un-believer I went through many years of "listening" to people about prayer, but I thought it was all junk. I then went through the trial of am unwanted divorce. I still loved my wife and I found myself living in a little studio apartment crying myself to sleep every night.
I lost 35 pounds and was just a mess. I know now that I was in massive depression, but at the time, I was just a lost, confused wreck.
After about 4 months of debilitating confussion I got on my knees on the bed, put my hands together and in deep sobs of continual agony I spoke my first prayer to God. I really didn't know what I was supposed to do - I just started talking to..............ah, someone.
I pleaded that I just needed to be able to sleep for 2 continuous hours. "Take away this pain that I feel" - I asked. This is the truth - I felt this wave of warmth flow over me and I laid down. Now, this wasn't like a blast of hot air or something. It was just "warm". I fell asleep in an instant and I slept all through the night. I woke up the next day refreshed and awake and alive. I cried again, but not for the reasons I had been crying for months on end. I cried for I knew that there was a living God that listened to ME! I never had a problem sleeping after that night.
FYI - I was still so prideful and arrogant that I did not give my heart over to Christ that day. It still took me a good 12-15 years to finally jump the fence to God's side.
I now talk to God every day, many times a day and He has been there for me for every trial I have found myself in.
"In my weakness I found my strength" and I will not go back to where I was.
If you want to see a really good example of prayer, watch the old movie - "Fiddler on the Roof" with Topal. WATCH him pray. Know that God is right there on the other side of the door waiting for you to open it.
I didn't open it myself - God opened it for ME!

Answer 6

Sure has. I have seen the things come about that I prayed for. Just talk as to a friend.

Answer 7

Anyone who has had their god answer prayers, riddle me this, why would your mundane wish for a better job, promotion, mate, lottery win, football game win, etc. be granted (answered) and Little miss Jessica Lundsford's prayers went unanswered? would such a god be worthy of worship?

Why would god answer your prayer and ignore an 11 year old little girl who was brutally raped, then buried alive in a garbage bag? What kind of god discriminates like that?

VB4, I would like to see documentation on the spontaneously regenerated teeth... I call bunk, in fact I will outright call you a liar on this one.. your story is a lie and you cannot prove it. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof... the onus is on YOU. Or can you disprove Russel's teapot orbits the earth at Lagrange?

If you could prove it the Vatican would declare your "dead brother' a saint tomorrow. And BTW there are no death notices in any newspaper searchable by google who gave notice of his death... Odd, I find marriage notices from tiny hometown newspapers on google.

Answer 8

I am not a Christian nor do I worship any aspect of the god of Abraham.

I do pray, but since I believe that my god moves backwards in time from me it works a little different most people see it.

When I pray for my god to make something have happened, I am really thanking him for having already done it, and for his attention solidifying the reality of it having already happened.

When I thank him, I am really praying for something to happen and drawing his attention to something he will already have done but would not have known to have done if I had not drawn his attention to.

Answer 9

God always answers my prayers. I just talk to Him like I would my best friend.

Answer 10

Yes, I've seen the results.