Praise God for an Answered Prayer

[Steven Yeadon]

I made a prayer about a year and a half ago while struggling with God's goodness. Childhood cancer and disease unnerved me greatly about God's goodness. I came to terms increasingly with Job, Jeremiah, and others at that time as I struggled with the problem of evil.

I concluded God was just and good, but I prayed that in the next epidemic children would be spared. I did so knowing I need not be answered to prove God's goodness.

It was memorable, because I have hallucinations, but I heard one say my prayer would be answered. I didn't know what to think.

That said, I have been thanking God for hearing my prayer the last few months, since Coronavirus is so kind to children compared to other diseases.

I figured I should share my story. It shows God's faithfulness and reveals He is in control.

 

[Roy]

I understand the feeling of exhilaration that you feel upon realizing that God has listened to and met a request. It's like little old worthless me received audience with the One who spoke the universe into existance and was granted my request.

There was a book called "The Power of Positive Praying," by John Bisagno which was given to everyone in my Baptist Training Union class, when I was a teenager in the 1960s. Our class leaders went through the book with us, and it was probably the thing that stuck with me most from those years.

Begin prayer with praise, just as Jesus instructed in the Lord's prayer.
Pray to the Father in the name of Jesus and believe.
Realize that God will not violate scripture or go against His will.
If you don't know God's will in a matter, ask him to reveal His will.

Just because it is God's will doesn't mean that it will happen regardless of your prayer. You need to pray the prayer of faith and believe.
I can't remember a few other things that were in the book, but I can still recall the basics. I did not know how to pray until studying that book. My idea was to just throw your request out there and end the prayer with the words "If it be Thy will, amen."
By ending it that way, God is off the hook and when my request wasn't met I could console myself by thinking that it must not have been God's will.

 

[Alan Gross]

I made a prayer about a year and a half ago while struggling with God's goodness. Childhood cancer and disease unnerved me greatly about God's goodness. I came to terms increasingly with Job, Jeremiah, and others at that time as I struggled with the problem of evil.

I concluded God was just and good, but I prayed that in the next epidemic children would be spared. I did so knowing I need not be answered to prove God's goodness.

It was memorable, because I have hallucinations, but I heard one say my prayer would be answered. I didn't know what to think.

That said, I have been thanking God for hearing my prayer the last few months, since Coronavirus is so kind to children compared to other diseases.

I figured I should share my story. It shows God's faithfulness and reveals He is in control.

You are PRAISING GOD.

That, sir, is what He Said to do.

I am saying, YOU ARE ACTIVELY BEING A CHRISTAIN ...AND....

This is the MOST PLEASING WE CAN BE TUR GOD and CREATOR.

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GOD MOOOOOVES WHEN HE IS PRAISED!...

GOD'S TRIAL HAS MET WITH HIS DESIRED effect WHEN WE PRAISE GOD in ALL THINGS.