My head is spinning!! God continually answers prayers left, right and centre!! Let's share our daily prayer answers here!!

For starters, on Friday, November 3, 2000, I was approached by my boss with an offer of a promotion - catch was that I had to decide who I wanted to work for (I had the choice of two lawyers, neither of which I know very well)! Being pressured to make an immediate decision. . . I asked for 1/2 hour, e-mailed my husband to tell him to call me and bowed my head for a moment of prayer because I knew that I could not make a wise decision without God's help. My husband and I discussed the decision (with me doing most of the talking because he knew even less than I did about the matter). In the end, I made my decision and passed it along to my boss, and I feel completely at peace with my choice, God has given me confidence knowing that He will bless my work and my new work relationship(s). Praise God!

The position itself is an answer to prayer because I have been praying for the last month that God would open doors to allow me to stay with my current firm and to help me enjoy my work more. God will always answer us when we ask in His will!

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Sarah Moss
*Prayer Changes Things!*

What? No one has had their prayers answered recently? Well, I have another to share. A friend of mine has been praying that she would be able to resolve some extremely difficult differences with a close relative of hers, they had been having "issues" for about a year and unable to put them behind them. As she prayed about it, another "situation" arose that caused her to become angry and need to confront her relative.

As they began to talk (she was able to calmly discuss the matter instead of erupting - another answer!!), they realized that many of the other issues were underlying this one also. Once both parties had cooled off, they were able to discuss all the issues that had arisen in the last year and discuss them in a way that brought forgiveness and understanding to their hearts, bringing about a healing and peace to their relationship, causing them to be friends once again. And, ironically enough, causing me to also become friends with the relative again.

Satan tries so many things to keep us from those who are good in our lives - including causing pain and misunderstanding between others which falls back on other relationships. I love both these ladies and rejoice that I can share both of their friendships rather than having to chose one or the other! Had this new situation not arisen, things would have turned out a lot differently! Praise God for unexpected circumstances!

Frankly, when this matter initially came up, the anger that it caused concerned me and I was afraid it would be another thorn in their side and get in the way of their healing the relationship - instead it was the catalyst to healing.

I look forward to reading your stories of answered prayer!

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Sarah Moss
*Prayer Changes Things!*

4 years ago our daughter when off to Avondale College with $500 to do a 4 year course. She was 16-1/2 and had tons of faith. Work was not readily available, but she hung in there, and managed one semester at a time. Somehow she was able to scrape up enough to meet her needs. In 2 weeks time she is graduation with honors.
My husband and I always dreamed the impossible dream of going to her graduation.
Recently our 2 sons gave us the plane tickets to travel to the Graduation. It came as a complete surprise to us, and had not been planned by them. They were 'moved' to do it.
God, our God, who has all the answers to our impossibilities.
Be Still
Zita

Finding this forum is an answer to prayer. For years I have been an isolated "small church" pastor. This means that there's not much contact with Adventist people outside of our immediate district. Of course I enjoyed the fellowship of other pastors in my area, but it's good to connect with so many more lay believers!

Two days ago when I had a funeral, I mentioned some of the prayers that came the way of a woman who had lost her daughter (see prayer forum). God surely worked in that instance! The church member was quite touched that we should think to pray for her and her family. The prayers I asked for this incident were answered miraculously too.

Yes, I see this forum as a concrete answer to prayer and a blessing to all.

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As the Happy Moments Roll,

Pastor Andrew

I need to start writing down prayed prayers & their answers. I let too many memories worth keeping slip & keep too many memories worth permanently forgetting.

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Edward F Sutton

In our day to day lives we tend to forget to ask for guidance and protection on our daily walk.
I finally started to ask God for protection as I go out on our local roads, and He answered in a way I didn't ask, but He did preserve me and my wife last night.
We received a call from a friend of ours and we were on our way to see the new grandparents [their first] and they wanted us there.

We got about half way there, and became intimately acquainted with a deer.
It took out the front of our van and so, we are ,again, without dependable transportation.

But, no one was hurt.
Just before we hit the stupid thing, traffic was thick, a car coming at us had the halogen lights and made it difficult to see that side of the road, we hit the deer, and traffic cleared out until we got to the side of the road.
Even with my CHF, I managed to walk a mile or mile and a half looking for a phone.
By the grace and strength of God I made it.
I couldn't find a phone, and when I got backto my van, the police were there and a man stopped and used his phone to call a wrecker.
I asked for protection, and I got it.
What do you think?

Amen, Gerry

Yes, the Lord does protect us.

In my younger days I was hit from behind by a car thrusting my car off the highway towards a good sized tree.

All I had time to say is, "Not now Lord."

The car came to a stop about a body's width from that tree.

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In His Love, Mercy & Grace

Daryl

Isn't it amazing how He answers our prayers even when we don't ask for anything specific and when we only have time to say a breif sentence, not necessarily a request, or was it.
Amen, Daryl, He does amazing things with the least request.
Isn't He great?

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What is popular is not always right.
What is right is not always popular.

Praise God!!! He works in our lives daily!

However, as Ed pointed out we as a human race have a tendency to forget the good and remember the bad.

We must keep in mind that we are to remember what God has done for us throughout our lives and to count our many blessings. The Israelites were admonished time after time to remember what God had done for them. They were given holidays to remember how and when they were given freedom from the Egyptians. We were given the rainbow to remember God's promise that he would never destroy the earth by flood, we were given communion and the foot-washing service as a memorial of Christ's sacrifice for us, the list is continuous.

Let us continually thank God, as David did in the Psalms, for all that He does for us!

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Sarah Moss
*Prayer Changes Things!*