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Acts-perienced Poster Posts: 11849 **4/5/18 1:31 pm**

Let's give glory to God for answers to prayer.

Soon after I had finished grad school, when I was poor in Hawaii, the land lord, who hadn't renewed our lease and let us go on a month to month, evicted us ot sell the unit. It was in the middle of the school year, and we didn't have the income to reasonably convince a Hawaii landlord that we could rent an apartment. Rent was expensive, and we didn't want a lease, so we went home to my parents in Georgia.

My wife was going to all night intercessory prayer meetings amidst all our packing. I went to one, but was wanting to leave and go pack and sleep. She told me sister-so-and-so had given her $400. We needed the money. But I liked to see the Lord work like that to provide for our needs. I told the Lord I wanted someone to give me $400.

There was a lady and her son from the church we actually went to there. He was young. I offered to talk them home. I knew they weren't rich. They lived in a walk-up and the husband had told me what he did for a living.

After she and her teenage son got out of the car, she said she'd talked it over with her husband, and she wanted to give us something. She gave me some money. I was thinking of giving it back, but then I saw that it was.... of course....$400, then I dared not give it back. I told her the story about my prayer, thanked her, and used the money to move.

Have you got a testimony about an answer to prayer?
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[Insert Acts Pun Here] Posts: 13654 **4/5/18 1:55 pm**

When you say you "told the Lord" you wanted someone to give you $400... I'm assuming you misspoke here and meant to say that you humbly asked a gracious God to meet this need for you, is that right?

I rejoice that God met your need -- but goodness I hope you asked more respectfully than you described here. Laughing

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Acts-perienced Poster Posts: 11849 **4/5/18 11:09 pm**

I have a cousin on Facebook who is a good deal younger than me. I remember him mostly from when he was too. I saw him again at 15. Then, he called me and told me about getting saved. Later, I friended him on Facebook. He went to a Church of Christ and did campus or street preaching, defending their legalistic positions on certain things.

Then he said he was an atheist. Then he said he was a Christian again. This week, he posted on his profile that he was a Muslim. I posted. Flavor of the month? How many wives do you plan on having.

He then said he was not a Muslim, that he was trolling, and that he was a deist and thinks he had been all along. Anyway, he keeps flip flopping.

I can't really understand people like this, and I was curious. I asked if he hadn't had any really specific answers to prayer. I've had a lot of experiences
between very specific answers to prayer, witnessing specific prophecies, direction to do different things, etc. in my Christian walk. And I am wondering about people who flip-flop like this, what kind of experiences they had. I asked Cojak about his time where he professed atheism, what he thought about being healed as a boy. I don't put my faith in my experiences, but they confirm it, and I don't see how I could be honest with myself and jump to deism or atheism.

So I asked my cousin about this and he said he never saw any answers to pray that he didn't think wouldn't have happened if he had prayed before. I shared a few testimonies as examples.

People's beliefs or lack thereof are sometimes just emotional reactions and believing what they want to believe.

But I have posted at least one thread in the past on Actscelerate asking people to share these kinds of testimonies. i think they are a good way to give glory to God. I think a lot of people have financial testimonies, too, since we frail creatures may pray a lot when we are in material need, so I started with that one. I find these testimonies to be encouraging and a way to give glory to God after He did good things for us.

But my previous thread never took off. So now I am wondering do posters here have plenty of examples of specific answers to prayer, and you just don't care to post? I know the forum is slow. My guess is forum traffic has moved to Facebook over the past 10 years or so across the Internet. But there still is some traffic.

Do you guys have experiences of amazing answers to prayer where it is obvious something supernatural happened?

How about just a yes or no, and share just the testimony if you'd like?
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Acts-perienced Poster Posts: 11849 **4/5/18 11:12 pm**

I'm thinking about answered prayer in evangelism. I know of a couple who'd want to reach an area, find someone open to meeting for prayer, then find more openings to share the gospel or minister the word to them when they started seeing prayers answered, and a church grew out of that.

I notice one example of something similar to the idea of using prayers being answered in evangelism, John 11:42,
"And I knew that thou hearest me always: but because of the people which stand by I said it, that they may believe that thou hast sent me."

This was before He called Lazarus out of the grave.
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One Christmas day, we weren't desperate, but we were basically broke. A mail man came to our door in 1958 in Biloxi, MS and delivered a Christmas card, Regular mail (5 cents postage I think). This was an RR delivery with a road side mail box. BUT he came to the door of our trailer and knocked to deliver the card. It contained $20. From a Sweet lady member of our home church. A woman I knew could have used the money her self.
It was an amazing thing to us at the timel.

I'm telling you my friend, for a HS dropout, married at 17, This has been one blessed man.
I enjoyed your testimony! Thanks Link.
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Dave Dorsey

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Carolyn Smith

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When I was a baby, there were problems with my feet. I was old enough to stand up in the crib and pull myself up but I couldn't. My feet were "crooked" according to my mom, and they had taken me a doctor about it. He recommended orthopedic shoes with braces. My daddy said no. He wasn't even saved then. He said he didn't know what they were going to do, but they weren't going to do that.

They were in service one night, and there was a young evangelist named Paul Lanier there (who later was my pastor many years down the road.) He told the folks if they had a need to come to the altar and the Lord would touch them and heal them. My mom, who was a fairly new Christian, took me down to the altar and they prayed for me. She went back to her seat and took my shoes & socks off and looked at my feet. They looked the same. About that time, Bro Lanier said, "If you didn't get what you wanted, come back down here and we're going to pray for you again, and the Lord is going to heal you!" I heard him tell the story, also, and he said he was a brash young evangelist and didn't really expect anyone to come back.

But my mom was determined, and she picked me up and took me back up there to be prayed for again. And when they did, someone touched heaven for me, and the Lord healed me. I don't know if there was any physical evidence, but Mama said that I pulled myself up in my crib that night for the very first time.

We have had many, many financial miracles, more than I could tell you or probably remember. But I have one similar to Cojak's.

We were living in Charlotte in a camper (8'x 40', I think) going to East Coast Bible College. We had moved there in faith for John to go to school. We learned I was pregnant shortly after moving there. We barely had enough to live on but we were making it. One Sunday morning I gave the last $10 I had, which was our tithes. We believed in paying our tithes but I had never given the last bit of $ I had before, and it was pretty scary. But I was absolutely thrilled the next day we found our income tax refund check in the mail! God made a way where there was no way!

One more...There was a man at our home church that God used to bless us financially during the years we were traveling. He was a giver and wasn't flashy about it and no one ever knew except us. I cannot tell you the number of times we had a need, and he would walk up to me in church and hand me an envelope. And inside the envelope would be the money we needed. He knew how to listen to God, and the Lord used him several times to help and bless us during those years. God has been so faithful to us! He truly is an on-time God!
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