re: Anyone Truly Believes They Had A Prayer Answered?

Yes, numerous times.

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Do you ever see anyone sitting around praying for things like limbs to regenerate or someone covered in third degree burns to suddenly have their body heal back to normal?

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Someone clearly doesn't understand the difference between prayer and a miracle. Prayer by definition is:

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prayer - a reverent petition made to God, an act of communion with God such as in devotion, confession, praise, or thanksgiving.

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Just as in a petition to the court, or a king, or a council to act on your behalf, in a matter that you yourself have no authority to change. A miracle by definition is:

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miracle - an extraordinary event manifesting divine intervention in human affairs

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Miracles are few and far between, and specifically for the purpose of building faith. Few if any of the miracles came about as a result of someone praying to God. They were faith based acts, the virgin birth, touching the eyes/ears/skin of a disabled person, touching the Messiahs garment, a Roman asking for his servant to be healed, immersion in a muddy body of water, lowering a crippled man into a room from the roof, etc. Each and every one an act of faith, not prayer. And faith is clearly defined in the Bible as:

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Heb 11:1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

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You make yourself known to your creator by prayer and supplications. When asked to teach men how to pray, Christ gave these directions:

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Luke 11:1 And it came to pass, that, as he was praying in a certain place, when he ceased, one of his disciples said unto him, Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples.

Luke 11:2 And he said unto them, When ye pray, say, Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, as in heaven, so in earth.

Luke 11:3 Give us day by day our daily bread.

Luke 11:4 And forgive us our sins; for we also forgive every one that is indebted to us. And lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil.

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Notice not one thing in that lesson about miraculous changes of physical impairments through prayer. Christ worked miracles to build his new ministry. That ministry flooded the entire world, based on the witness of said miracles. If you still need a physical miracle as your proof today, then you have zero faith. And that's not a result of his or any other Christians failures, but of you and your ancestral line losing that faith.

And if you lose faith, you lose God. One of the clearest directives in the Bible is that at your final hearing God might say "I never knew you", specifically because you chose not to have times of "devotion, confession, praise, or thanksgiving"

And yes, I've had prayers answered, and I have witnessed actual medical miracles.

I'm mad at Chicken, and I'm taking the whole thing down.