What’s your best story of an answered prayer?

prayer works

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Maybe it’s coincidence, but the timing was wild.

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And we’re currently watching Season 5 of The Conners and Darlene can’t get a job because of her attitude. It’s wild, coincidence's and all that. Maybe we’re all in the Matrix, who knows?

I seriously considered being a Catholic religious. I prayed for guidance and almost immediately after this I met my wife, lol. Prayers answered.

Was dying of Covid, 4 years ago, few hours from intubation and an updated DNR. Received a transfusion of plasma with Covid antibodies along with prayers from people I have never met - in addition to those I knew. I left the hospital 3 days later and am beyond convinced it was the result of both.

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I asked a relative of mine who was very sick that when she died, please let me know thru a " sign" that she was okay. She passed last month and I've prayed every night for that sign. Two mornings ago, I woke up with a start and I swear what woke me up was a kiss on the cheek. It was very freaky how real it was. I took that as her sign.
I know it sounds crazy.

Possibly more of God pushing me where I need to be.

Our house was wrecked to shite from Ida. That and a number of other, out of our control, events made our marriage fairly rough from the start. I could see the career I was progressing in was going to be a dead end, no promotional opportunities, miserable people to be around and managed by, surrounded by liars, so I started applying elsewhere.

I kept at the house, the interviews went no where and my mental state was low. I started thinking to myself, “Jesus put me in this situation with a busted house because he knows I’m strong enough to do the repairs. He know the family that does eventually buy this house will enjoy it. He placed me here to create a home for the next family.”

My wife is a saint to put up with me. We’ve been through a lot. I had to place all of it in Jesus’ hands and move one day at a time.

I’m sure I’ll find a job in time. I’m still applying, still grinding. I can’t say I enjoy my current role at all. Mindset has been uplifting and maybe the earlier prayers for help were his way. I read through “Wild at Heart” by John Eldredge. Really interesting perspective.

After stopping a couple of years of expensive, heartbreaking fertility treatments. We were going to resume efforts/treatment, but we'd both been convicted that we were trying to throw money at it, find the right practice, do it on our timing, whatever. Basically we were using all our resources as people who are used to "solving" our own problems with money or skill, etc. Not that we don't think God can use medicine to answer prayers of course, but we'd just never really left space for the plan He might have for us. We knew there were issues before our first son, so we went right into it for round two.

Because we'd been doing intensive stuff for so long, she was getting scans every month. Spare the details, but they told us it wouldn't be worth spending money on drugs/treatment that month anyway based on that, so it reinforced our position to take a break and reset, pray, etc.

That month, my wife got pregnant. Non-fertility assisted twin boys.

Start keeping a list of answered prayers and your faith will be bulletproof before long.

We have a bunch of stones we write names on of answered prayers, so our kids can remember.
Multiple people where the doctors called in a priest for a last prayer. Our small group was lifting them up in prayer, and a few weeks later they were walking into the church like usual.
My niece with spina bifida is running and playing tee ball and you'd never guess her journey.
My childhood friend had a daughter born at 24 weeks. She spent months in the hospital. Just celebrated her first birthday!

My wife had a 3 year struggle with occipital neuralgia (not much of a prognosis there). Bad medications, constant pain and unable to get pregnant on those pills, she tried weaning herself off and prayed while she laid awake at 2am in excruciating pain. She ran across a doctor that claimed to heal that condition. He happened to live in a city just 4 hours away, and happened to have an opening to treat her the next 3 days (a patient flying in from Canada canceled), and her sister just happened to move about 12 minutes away from that Dr just 6 months before. She quit her meds cold turkey, drove over that afternoon and stayed with her sister 3 days.
Came back with no pain and happy as ever. Food tasted better. I was funny again, according to her, lol.

No less than 20 other stories like that.
God is real. He listens and cares. He doesn't always make life easier, because He's more concerned with our character than our comfort. He's not a genie, but He has a plan and will reveal His love and power of you want to know Him.
Jesus is all you need.

I needed to pass a background check but I was worried about one guy that had dirt on me.

I prayed over it.

2 weeks later the guy died in a single vehicle DWI accident.

I didn’t pray specifically for that. But I was still very thankful.

I passed the background check and had a wonderful career.