Do you believe in the power of prayer? I do. My pastor had full blown lukemia and over a period of time, he just saturated himself with prayer and listening to Christian music. Today he is fully recovered  and I praise God for it. Do you have any examples of how prayer has healed you or changed your life?
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My father had 14 heart/artery surgeries in 4 years.  He was also diabetic and could not get his blood sugar under control.  The medicine for his diabetes and his heart were not working.  He could barely walk across the house without his chest hurting or being out of breath.  One night we had an intense prayer service where the presence of God was great.  He walked down the isle praising God, believing that he was being healed.  The day after, he stopped taking medicine.  It has been nearly a year and he is healthier than he has ever been.  I praise God that my dad will be around for years to come.
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O.K. Let me get this straight, I should pray for tim,mzstorm, nice girl, Linda, dallastexas94, vicsiklx, mamabear and seen it all? And of course, all my family, friends and pets......\n\nI pray daily and I guess my prayer list just grew...Oh and I will include the next questioner also.....\n\nGod Bless us All.....Refreshing to read something nice for a change...Thanks tim.\n\n\nI submitted this and when I did I saw a lot of people came in before me. I guess some of the negative ones need a bit more praying from us. That's fine, I will include them too. \nGod figures anyone can use a prayer or a nice gesture.
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I've witnessed miracles. Actually I experienced one with my son with liver cancer. 2 months ago, he needed a liver transplant because of tumors that surrounded his liver. Through prayers to The Divine Mercy, The Lord Jesus, it's all gone now! Doctors were really surprised. I witnessed the lame walk, the blind see, the paralysed healed and deadly diseases were cured through a lady gifted by the Holy Spirit to heal through the Divine Mercy. I can bring you to the place if that will affirm your faith. Miracles happen everyday. \n\nLinks: http://www.apodivinemercy.com or http://our.homewithgod.com/divinemercy/miracles/\n\nDon't STOP BELIEVING!!!! Jesus is our only way to enter the kingdom of HIS Father. Please don't get lose.
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I'm with ya. It's RARE, but ever once in a while there is a "faith healing" of a real illness. Credit should go to the body's almost miraculous ability to heal itself, not God's intervention. Ironic don't you think, that for every "success" of faith healing, there are thousands of failures. These are usually blamed on the sufferer's lack of faith.......
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Here is one of the miracles that God has blessed me with!   One Morning, I was making breakfast (frying bacon), I have a problem with my nerves so my hands were shaking that day.\nI was flipping the bacon, and for some odd reason I had lifted the pan and the bacon grease had spilled all over my right hand! That is the hand that I alway use, I'm right handed! So like a dummy I wraped it, by wrapping it I locked the heat in and it made the burn worse! I didn't know that was the wrong thing to do, I DO NOW!!! I went to the emergency room, I had a blister that was about 6 inches tall and as fat as can be, I had to wait in the waiting room, while I was waiting a lady came over to me looked at my hand and ask me what had happened?  So I showed her my burn, and told her how it had happened,\nShe layed her hand above the blister and prayed for my hand to  heal. A few minuets later I was called. My blister had busted while I was waiting. When I had went in to see the Doctor, he removed the blister and told me that I have a third degree burn! I was so afraid because this was my right hand, the hand that I use for everthing! I had to go and have a skin graft done! When I went to get the skin graft there was no one in the office,(I thought that was strange) even at lunch time they have someone watching the desk! I wasn't going to wait around until they came back so I went home. I decided that I would call them and reschule! So I went home and did exactly that. As the days went by I noticed that the burning pain was not as bad as it was, and that my burn was healing! It has been over a year now and the burn is totally healed, all that I have is a very slight scar that is red, and I never loss the use of my hand. That is a true& honest miracle from God! And I Thank him for all of his Beautiful Miracles that he blesses me with each & every day!!!\nThis is to the first person that answered your question.\nGod does not hate any one! He loves and watches over us all!\nIn order for you to see  God's miracles you have to have complete love & faith in him! God has blessed you with many miracles, just waking up each morning is a miracle! \nGod Bless You!!!
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I was raised in a Christian home.  My mom played (and still plays) the piano for church, and my dad was sometimes an interim pastor.  He was at the church we attended in South Carolina, when we were between pastors.\nWhen I was 13, I fell away from the faith, because of my bitterness regarding my father's death three years prior, and all of the other people I had lost.\nFor twelve years, I wandered in darkness, even ignoring the fact that God actually spoke to me.\nAbout three weeks ago, I recommitted my life to Christ completely.  I researched the faith, including the history of the church, and the scientific, historic, and archaelogical evidence that supports the Bible.\nSurprisingly, it isn't the research that necessarily led me to God, although it did strengthen my faith.  What REALLY led me to God was the Holy Spirit...there is nothing like the feeling of the Holy Spirit filling you.\n\nThank you for your question, and for giving me the chance to share!
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The prayer's so powerful. You just have to have faith when you pray. Our prayer's always heard by God. He never forgotten nor ignore us. Things just don't happen right away. God let things to happen according to His plans and not according to our own will. Sometimes, you'll be surprised cuz He'll give you better and bigger than what you've asked for.
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Christ saved my soul for one!...  Thank you Jesus.\n\nThree years ago he healed me of epilepsy.  \n\nWhen my daughter was two years old we were getting ready to go out and I just put her in the tub, seconds later I heard her screaming from the next room.  I was only away from her for a moment.  I ran to her and her face was covered in blood.  She had cut her lip up really bad and laid it open with a razor. I jerked her out of the tub and placed a towel over her face and began praying in the spirit for healing. I didn't even think of taking her to the E.R.  God just took over. I'm not sure how long I prayed but after a while I felt this perfect peace and removed the towel.  Her lip was perfectly new, not a spot of blood.  PRAISE GOD FROM WHOM ALL BLESSINGS FLOW!...
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well, miracles happen to people from all different walks of life. My family has had several miracles, but we are just average God-fearing people. We love the Lord and don't expect more from Him than we deserve. Maybe that's the key. Who knows?\n\nI guess I should leave an example of a miracle. When my father was 22 years old, he was just starting out in the ministry and he was beginning to lose his eyesight. He went to several doctors and they all told him he'd be blind within the year. My dad pouted and cried about it for a few days, then he realized that is not what would be pleasing to God. He went to church that night with next to no sight. He went to the alter and prayed to God that He could take his eyesight, but please don't take away his ministry. My dad loves people and he wanted to preach the gospel to as many people as possible. When he stood up from praying, he had his eye sight restored completely! The doctors couldn't explain it...my dad has been a preacher now for 34 years and has led many people to the Lord. Praise the Lord!\n\nPS and he never lost his eyesight!
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Good question and WOW lots of answers.\nAre ANY of them right?\nWhy is it all about religion - how about what you wanted - the POWER within the prayer?\n\nSo will the power of a faith help.\nYES - and NO.\n\nYes - when there is a chance that we can look within ourself and put all the worries into the creator's (or whatever) hand(s) - we undergo an emotional (and physical) change. We are able to heal and do remarkable things.\n\nNo - when we forgo common sence and put our entire belief that if the creator (or whomever) wants us cured then we will be cured.\n(The creator - or whomever - has and wants us cured - they are called Doctors and it is called medicine).\n\nWe all have our own paradyms of what is true religion and what is true faith.\n\nPrayer is a PERSONAL relationship with that source (GOD or otherwise).\nSo - the power flows from you to (whatever it is)\nSo - YES there is power in prayer (both good and bad)
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A few years ago, I thought everything was going great.  I had just gotten married, and we had recently moved into a new house.  I thought I was right where God wanted me.\n\nThen it happened.  The company that my father and I were working on building together lost its largest client and, with that client, went 40% of its revenue.  Obviously that was a major blow, and it threw our life into a major upheavel.  In order to help supplement our income, my wife stopped working for me and went to work for our church full time, and I started working there part time a few months later.\n\nI began to feel like God was telling me something, but I didn't want to pick up my life, go back to school, and start a new career when I finish school at 36.  Then at a Christmas Eve service, the pastor preached a sermon about how the wise men were late, but it was never too late to do what God is calling you to do.\n\nSo, I prayed and told God that I needed to know for sure that he was calling me to do this, and within a few weeks, I was hit with even more financial difficulty.  The lesson here is:  be careful what you pray for; you just might get it.\n\nSo, I decided that I would do what I felt God calling me to do and started looking at schools.  I ended up at The Divinity School at Wake Forest University, which was not my first or even second choice.\n\nI won't say that everything has been perfect, but everything has worked out to get me where I am now.  The house we bought had appreciated enough in value for us to be able to pay cash for the small condo we live in now, etc.\n\nIn the end it came down to this.  I KNEW that God was calling me into the ministry, I had no doubt about it.  I think the majority of people are sure.  They may argue with God about it, like Moses who basically responded "Here am I, send Aaron."\n\nIf I could sum it up, I guess I would say if you have significant doubts that you are being called into ministry, you probably aren't.
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Pray! Prayer is very powerful. It may help to read "Power of a Praying Woman" by Stormie Omartian. It helped me big time.\nThe Lord can do the impossible. \n\nJames 4:8\nDraw near to God and He will draw near to you.\n\nPhil 4:6-7\n\n6 Don’t worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank him for all he has done. 7 Then you will experience God’s peace, which exceeds anything we can understand. His peace will guard your hearts and minds as you live in Christ Jesus. (NLT)\n\nGod Bless!
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Once Lonely; depressed doing my Community service in a Salvation Army hall, I spotted a Beautiful Portrait of Jesus, just His Profile. I stared at it for what seemed a long time and asked myself if Jesus was here with me and If He was than I could let go of these feelings of depression.\nI heard a voice: A soft voice say:\n" My Child, I Know Your Needs and I Will Care For You."\nFrom that day on, I never prayed for Riches,Love,or even Help to turn my Life around.Rather I prayed for Wisdom and Strength because my faith became so strong I knew God would carry me when I thought I could not go on..\nand He has " Always." \nSo try it -You Pray too, he knows what's Best for you even if it's Not what you want and I will pray for you too.\nGod is a Loving God..\nGoodluck and God Bless.
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My Dads sermon last night was about how prayer changes things.The fact that you have asked for prayer shows that you believe that God is able to answer those prayers.Hold on to that faith,God is very concerned about you.Keep looking past the problem and to the solution.God is the solution.My heart goes out to you.Jesus is the answer.
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Interesting.  The Lord has put many in my life. Right now, I have a group of late teens, early twenties... I am preparing them for college,  by training them in Christian apologetics. This will help them defend their faith against the worldliness of college. My ex-wife... without her I may not have gotten to know the Lord and not be doing what I am doing now.  I had a wonderful class a few years ago and was able to teach science from a Christian perspective. One of the students, Sarah died last week. I believe she is in Heaven. This is rough when you see this happen to a 16 year old. But I hope I was able to make some difference in her and her families life.
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I do too, i go to church every Sunday and i listen to christian music. my number one goal this year is to read the whole bible, and I'm doing good so far. i know not to many people love God or believe in him. good bye and wish we good luck on reading the bible. ill be praying for more and more people to come to  love God. I'm glad you love him.
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Like you I pray daily that God would lift me into his arms and carry me home; but then he reminds me that he's not through with what he has for me to do.  I have seizures, as many as 4 to 5 a day, and therefore may lose as many as six hours a day of memory - it is very hard for me as I'm constantly wondering if I even had a day, but knowing full well that I am God's daughter and that the Holy spirit resides within me, and knowing that "I" feel like a burden to my family, God is teaching far greater lessons to those around me.  We may not always like the situation God places us in or how he allows our flesh to be used, but our Spirit is his, so who are we to be anything less than content.  That might not bring you much comfort other than to know you are not alone - you have my permission to contact me if you would like to share more personally you're experiences, as God has had me writing poetry for 20 years that deals with so many issues that I'm sure it is no coincidence he has had me online at this point in time to answer your question.  Heavenly Father, I empathize with this one as you know I too beg with each unconscious state to slip on into your abode, but you keep rudely(!) sending me back to these who I love and who are still needing taught of your mercy and grace, and I am glad each time you send someone into my life, as I can no longer get out, to share how wonderful and merciful you are!  Bring a contentment and peace that passeth understanding into this ones life as you have mine. Amen.