Has God answered your prayers?

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I’m just wondering. Would be nice to hear some positive stories.

I’m not overly religious but I do think there’s something more and sometimes I do feel I get a bit of a helping hand.

Well I ask things of my gods and feel I am heard and outcomes are as I asked. Thing is my gods are not your god and your god says he is the one true god so either none of our gods are real or they are all real and yours is a liar. Strange that.

Yes, I prayed for a husband and my now DH and I met 1 month after starting the prayers. It’s a bit more involved than this simple explanation but we got married 10 months after I started the prayers.
My cousin was sick and in an induced coma in intensive care with an unknow illness. Possibly auto immune related. He was dying. I asked my parish priest to say three Masses for him (I’m Catholic). It just the parish priest happened that he was going to be on Lourdes, France on a Pilgrimage (it’s famous for its miraculous cures). He said three masses there for my cousin. The consultant said that in the last 48 hours there has been an unbelievable improvement in his condition- since the last mass was said. He left the hospital 1 week later. He will be in a medical text book as no doctors can understand how he got better so quickly.

"would imagine that God would say "you created these problems, so you should sort them out"

I created childhood cancer? Tsunamis?

I am an atheist but wasn’t always. However, it is naive to believe that God would answer prayers because if you were healed purely because of prayer then it stands to reason that if you didn’t pray you wouldn’t be healed. Similarly people who pray aren’t always healed therefore it could understandably be reasoned that God didn’t answer their prayers. So why some and not others?

Plenty of religious communities do in fact distance themselves from people or the loved ones of people whose healing does not come about as a result of prayer because they feel that person obviously didn’t believe enough.

The poster above who went into spectacular remission from cancer would have done anyway regardless of prayer, even though it can of course be recognised that her story is fantastic for her. But had she been an atheist she still would have gone into remission.