I believe God answers prayer
(AP)If you believe in the power of prayer, would you please pray more?More and more, Im convinced that the world would be a much better place if we took prayer more seriously. Prayer is not just a spiritual practice, its the means by which God changes our lives and changes the world.Prayer isnt just helpful, its important.Prayer is a responsibility each of us has to bring more of Heaven into this often broken world.See, I believe that God doesnt just hear our prayers, but that He answers them. I believe God is not just aware of us but that he is deeply concerned for us.I believe that he intervenes in miraculous ways more often than we think, and that coincidence is often Gods way of remaining anonymous.God is not only real, and alive, hes also at work in our lives. He is a friend that sticks closer than a brother; he is an ever present help in our time of need, and with him all things are possible. When I set off to produce my new series Answered Prayers for TLC we scoured the country for stories of divine intervention. Within days, our inboxes were exploding as thousands of people wrote us telling us of the ways in which God had clearly and supernaturally intervened in their lives.There were documented accounts of people being healed of diseases, stories of supernatural provision, and story after story of people being saved from the brink of death by a person passing by who happened to just have what they needed in their moment of crisis.Ive never been more convinced of Gods power and Ive never been more convinced that he answers prayer.My dear friend Victoria Osteen often says that we can think of prayer in one of two ways. We can think of it as a steering wheel that guides our life or we can treat it as a spare tire that we go running to when we need it.God is willing to be our spare tire.He will never leave us or forsake us, and even if we only come knocking when we need something, we will find his hands open and full of love and grace.Thankfully, when I was a child my father taught me to just go ahead and give God the steering wheel.He taught me to begin my day by thanking God for life, and he taught me to end my day by doing the same. He also taught me to pray in between for the busyness of life always threatens to crowd out God. He taught me that the voice of the Lord will always be there, if you just take the time to listen.My fathers advice has served me well.We make time for everything else in our lives. We wont miss a meeting or a meal, we schedule time for the gym and tea with friends. http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2015/07/24/believe-god-answers-prayer.html?intcmp=hphz05
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Tell it to the 6 million Jews who prayed they'd make it through Nazi Germany.
I'll possibly buy the notion that "God answers prayers" if it's stipulated that sometimes the answer is "NO!"
Otherwise, REALITY is an insecure place and prayer is innocuous except that many who pray are hypocrites who allegedly "Love God" but hate certain types of human beings and "validate" their hatred by convincing themselves that it's "God's will" for them to repudiate those unlike themselves.
What makes you think that anyone who is not a religionist is an atheist?
A spiritualist finds as many reasons to believe in a creator than any religionist!
Sitting in a man-made building called "a house of worship," one in which the sky is obscured by a roof, and trees and flowers and other wildlife -- by walls, and that's how the religionist comes to his Creator -- really?
And to top it off, many religionists where there ethnocentricity, bigotry, prejudices and disdain for "THE OTHERS" like badges of devotional honor.
There are more miracles of Creation in the digestive system of a termite than in all the altars in the world.
How dare you call me an "atheist"! There's more evidence of "God" in one of my photographs than in your discriminatory, exclusive club you refer to as your "religion"!
I rest my case.
I believe God answers prayer...
So Do I!!
I don't always have the Faith, but I do believe Yahweh (GOD) answers prayers, Could be Yes, No or Wait..I always have to go to the Scriptures to back up my responses to anything Biblical....
Numbers 23:19
God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it ? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?
- King James Bible "Authorized Version", Cambridge Edition
Bible Verses About God Answering Prayers
1 John 5:14-15 - And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us:
James 4:3 - Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume [it] upon your lusts.
1 Thessalonians 5:17 - Pray without ceasing.
Isaiah 65:24 - And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.
John 15:7 - If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.
Hebrews 11:6 - But without faith [it is] impossible to please [him]: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and [that] he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek
1 Corinthians 10:13 - There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God [is] faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear [it].
John 15:16 - Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and [that] your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.
Matthew 21:21 - Jesus answered and said unto them, Verily I say unto you, If ye have faith, and doubt not, ye shall not only do this [which is done] to the fig tree, but also if ye shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; it shall be done.
John 5:30 - I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.
Micah 7:7 - Therefore I will look unto the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me.
Psalms 55:22 - Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.
If you ever reach a lucid moment, perhaps when you're lying in bed not fully awake or asleep, and your severely indoctrinated psyche has it's guard down, maybe you will ponder on what a kind and loving god would do for its prized creation of humanity in order to prolong its inevitable demise from overpopulation and unsustainable usage of natural resources. Hint - there is only one realistic answer, and it involves humanely reducing the population by reducing the problem of un-intended pregnancy.
Deal with the message rather than attacking the messenger. There's enough there for you to address if you have the wherewithal.
One cannot merely conclude there is, in fact "the positive influence and effect of prayer in people's lives and (that) those not taking enough or any use of it might benefit from it."
That's an opinion with no mention of the downsides associated with the corresponding dogmas; you have evaded all that I wrote in response to that premise.
This is a discussion forum and you seem not want discussion other than anything in concurrence with your premise. Are we talking "faith" or "blind faith"?
When I was a child, I prayed to God for a dirt bike. I never got it. Then it occurred to me, God doesn't work that way. So I stole one and prayed for forgiveness.
Riiiiight - we are 'nearly to the point' where we will be having more people living in freaking outer space 'or other places', than are contributing to the critical mass here on earth (which kicks off the inevitable extinction process). If anyone had any doubts about your disconnection from reality, that ought to clear things up. The fact that you would go to such an extreme to justify your support for the legal discrimination of gays speaks volumes.