What are your feelings about "power of prayer" now?
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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.
745853
Still having freedom to worship as I please. All the freedoms we take for granted. My family. My home. All the nice things I have that I don't deserve. Friends. A loving Heavenly Father that I can talk to and give my burdens to anytime I want. Being forgiven. The blessings I am thankful for are too numerous to list but these are a few that stand out.\n\n\nIt's kind of ironic that you would ask this, I always ask all my guests when we set down and have everyone around the table give something they are thankful for before we pray.
310928
Yes. This is a great one.\nhttp://www.waxdog.com/pray/
974148
:Actually, today I found YahooAnswers and asked for prayer!\nIm so impressed by the answers and prayer I received from total strangers. \n(I cried, it really touched my heart.)\nI'll pray for you to if you'd like me to.\nDear Heavenly Father, \n  Please bless "Kitten2" as she reaches out to You for help, guidance, support, love, forgiveness, mercy, kindness, insight, and Your help in all ways Father, meet her needs and bless her. \nIn Jesus name we pray, Amen.
562803
I no longer give power to others by allowing them to determine my worth. I have a conscious contact with God, and pray for his will. Any queastions I have about my life, faith, relationships, Christians, etc.....all I have to do is ask God directly, and he provides the answers.
799137
Totally, yes!  Faith with prayers does great wonders in my life.  I hope you will find the same for you.  Please try it.  You will not be disappointed. Hold on to your faith and don't let it go ... let it grow!
211815
I'm glad someone else feels this way.  It just seems so wrong to pray to anyone but God.  It says in the bible, you should address anyone, but God in your prayers.
429060
Its too broad a question.  Work for what?  Is prayer a magic wand?  I'd say no--we understand too well that try as we might, we are limited beings and we can't just make anything we want happen.\n\nThe christian belief is that prayer is essentially about relational communication, not just about asking for things to happen.  So, does prayer work?  It does if you are deepening in your spiritual relating with God through it, and becoming more fulfilled in who you are meant to be as a result.  I'd say that it does work, but like any relationship and any communication is fraught with challenges at times.\n\nDo prayers work in terms of influencing reality around us?  It isn't possible to prove or disprove in a sense, because we can believe whatever we want.  However, my experience is that they can indeed.
50150
Fear and peace at the same time.\nThey let me go into a hospital room with my two-weak-old son to say goodbye because they thought he would die during the airlift to another hospital.  I had both these feelings because I'm human and he was my baby, yet I was praying and something in me knew he'd be alright. \n\nGood news...he's healthy happy and 10 now : )
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Practicing the privilege of prayer yields abundant blessings.  Not only are we allowed to speak directly to the Creator of the universe through prayer, and often experience the excitement of seeing our prayers answered directly, but family devotions also prepare our children to raise praying families of their own.\n\nWhatever state you find your family in today, go pray about it together.\n\n"Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer." - Romans 12:12
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wow. that's not a question people usually ask. it's so personal... i would have to say, now that i think about it. i'm embarassed by my answer. i think i go days at a time without praying! that's aweful!!!\n\nwe're raised to pray every morning, night, and at meal times. i went to a christian school and we prayed before every class began. but since i have gotten to college it's been a... volentary thing. and it's been hard to force myself to do something i have always taken for granted.\n\ni've fallen into some bad habbits since being away from my christian school and my church, and my family. i just hope that i can convince myself to change back to the GOOD habbits they tried to instill in me when i grew up.
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I have definetly felt the pressence of GOD. Right before Christmas in 2004, our first ond onlt child, a son, passed away. This was a very hard time for my husband and I, and we stopped going to church. We didn't celebrate Christams that year, and my husband started to smoke cigarettes again. I quit my job to stay home, because being around people was so ahrd. I tried to convince myself that everything was okay.\n\nAbout a month after he passed away, i was going through some of his old belongings and looking at his phot album. I broke down, and it felt good. I dont know what it was for sure, but i felt like someone was hugging me; i felt warm, happy, and that everything was going to be okay. I like to think that our son is our gaurdian angel. \n\nGod has recently blessed us with a new baby boy. I think our first son saw how sad we are, and told GOD to give us another baby....
799646
I hear you, brother. I feel the same way. I have been praying for four years now for God's will, and God's will alone. And I also ask him to help me grow in faith. But when it comes time to ask for something specific, I sort of cower, because I feel so entirely unworthy.\n\nI have spoken with other faithful Christians about this, and what some have said has helped me. Some have said that we're not worthy on our own, but that Christ's blood has justified us. They have told me that if you ask God for something, and say, "If it be thy will"--and if you mean that--then it is okay to ask. God will either provide or he won't, depending on whether or not what you ask for is what he wills. I have also been told that God does indeed like to give gifts and blessings to his children. He is our father, after all--and so we are "allowed" to approach him and ask for stuff. If he sees it best for us, he will provide, and if he sees it as harmful to us, he will not provide.\n\nEssentially, God won't do anything that God doesn't will...obviously. So what I do is continue to seek his will, and I also ask him to teach me how and what to pray for. The key here is developing your relationship with God. And I think the more that God teaches me how to pray, the better I come to know him and myself in relation to him. That is, my unworthiness is based in a number of things, but one of these things is a fear of God--which is a legitimate thing. Fear of his awesomeness, might, and his righteous judgment...very reasonable to fear such a God. It has historically been sort of daunting for me to stand in the presence of such might and ask for something...and hence the feelings of unworthiness. But I think--I think, not know--that God does want us to come to ask him for things, because this deepens the relationship and better teaches us who he is and who we are. If that makes sense to you at all.
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I've had a couple times where I really felt God with me.  The one I recall most: I was thinking of His actions that confuse and/or disturb me.  I started crying hard.  So I prayed, and told God what I was thinking.  Next thing I know, my tears dry up, my breathing slows down, and my whole body relaxes.  I have no doubt God was comforting me!
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Wow, i'm deeply touched. Most times people ask for prayers, this is the first time i've been offered one without asking.\n\nTHANK YOU, please do - i'd be really greatful! Count on my prayers too
1057051
I pray ever night and every time I feel the need. Please pray for me to get over my fear of sleeping alone at night while hubby is at work. It really bothers me that he is gone. I pray for alot of things and people even our safety but I still don't sleep well  when he is gone.
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I really, really, really believe that there aren't rules as far as prayers go.  If you want to say something to God then go for it, I don't think God will mind what you say first as long.  I find it unfortunate in some organized religions that there is an "outline" for reflecting with God...or when one isn't even "allowed" to talk to God directly, but through a priest.\n\nI'm not overly religous but I do pray and find it soothing.  So if you want to ask for forgiveness, be thankful or as for blessing just go for it!   If you feel it in your heart and practice goodness (i.e don't be hypcritical! I can't stand that - have  a few of those in my life, ick) I think you're all set!!