July 20, 2004
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Since altoz and eyeman recently wrote about answered prayers, I thought I’d give it a try. Generally these days I pray about dry and abstract stuff like world peace and church unity But both last night and this morning I prayed for there to be no people in line at the Comcast office when I went to return my old cable modem. I spent some time drifting in and out of sleep trying to figure out if my motives were right (I think so) and if I could accept a No answer (I could). And when I went to Comcast, there was no line. Strange.
My skeptical rational side wants to dismiss it as a coincidence, but I also want to think up other prayers I can try over the next few days. Anyone else have recent experiences with answered or unanswered prayers?
Comments (8)
Lemme forward you my prayer letter from my missiosn trip… I’m pretty skeptical too… but whoa, some crazy stuff happened.
i always think that God answers our prayers… we are just too dull to notice it most of the time. whatever concerns we may have or bear heavy in our heart, He gives us an answer at just the right moment. i know this has been the case for me throughout my entire life. regardless of if it’s monetary or something really simple…
I had a very, very, very specific prayer request yesterday which went unanswered… ah well.
let’s all pray for osama bin laden to be captured before august is up
God answers prayers – the answer may be “no” sometimes, tho. I always wish for parking spaces and lo and behold, there is always one where I wished for it.
Years ago someone challenged me to write down my prayer requests- and I was amazed by how many God answered in the least likely, most specific ways. I think pjk is on the money- often we just overlook answered prayers.
These days, I am being far more thoughtful about praying things that I can demonstrate from Scripture to be consistent with God’s will. He can do anything, especially because He loves me, but loving Him prompts me to want to see Him use me for His purposes, rather than me use Him for mine.
Hmm…I’ll second pjk’s and daveswaim’s comments above. I think writing down one’s prayers (and looking back at them later) is sometimes a good way to catch the things that we may have missed at the moment…
hmm …. interesting. it’s almost like testing the power of prayer or testing God to respond (?)
prayer is conversing with God and it’s not all about asking favors although i am guilty of that. i have a million wishful thoughts that i direct to God’s ears! i pray for big, i-need-a-miracle-here-GOD! things more than for small, trivial things not because He does need to be bothered for small things or that I do not need Him but because He has already given me enough intellect and skill to work on the small things and because I know they are so small, He’d probably say no!
also, sometimes, when i look back i realize i have the answers even before i even ask for them.