Answered Prayers

[We Never Know]

If someone prays for something and it happens(for whatever reason) they will say/may say "See! God is real. He listened and answered my prayer".

If your prayers aren't answered what then?

Does that make god not listening? Not real? Or?

 

[Kenny]

If someone prays for something and it happens(for whatever reason) they will say/may say "See! God is real. He listened and answered my prayer".

If your prayers aren't answered what then?

Does that make god not listening? Not real? Or?

Those are actually great questions. In my life, I usually can figure out where I went wrong. There are many reasons we can short-circuit our prayers.

It isn’t that He isn’t listening or that He isn’t real, as per my signature, we just learn from what happened or didn’t.

On the positive side, when we treat colon cancer, there is an 80% success rates which means that 20% are not successful. We celebrate the success and realize or study why the 20% didn’t make it. We certainly don’t throw out the treatment because there were failures.

 

[Sand Dancer]

If someone prays for something and it happens(for whatever reason) they will say/may say "See! God is real. He listened and answered my prayer".

If your prayers aren't answered what then?

Does that make god not listening? Not real? Or?

God said, "no" or "wait." How convenient.

 

[We Never Know]

God said, "no" or "wait." How convenient.

I've actually heard some say something like "its on gods timing, not yours".

 

[sun rise]

If your prayers aren't answered what then?

Do parents give kids everything they ask for? I hope not because the result is not good.

God gives us what we need not what we want or think we want. That's hard to credit from Abrahamic theology but from a karmic perspective it fits.

 

[Jimmy]

Don’t think to much about it.

 

[vulcanlogician]

I've actually heard some say something like "its on gods timing, not yours".

Reminds me of another quote:

"Timing has a lot to do with the outcome of a raindance."

-- Bix Bender

 

[Twilight Hue]

If someone prays for something and it happens(for whatever reason) they will say/may say "See! God is real. He listened and answered my prayer".

If your prayers aren't answered what then?

Does that make god not listening? Not real? Or?

That's the way the ole' schick works.

Roundabout foolproof rational.

They say God has his reasons if it dosent.

Can't lose.

 

[Stevicus]

If someone prays for something and it happens(for whatever reason) they will say/may say "See! God is real. He listened and answered my prayer".

If your prayers aren't answered what then?

Does that make god not listening? Not real? Or?

My impression is that there are so many people praying that they're received something like a call center.

"Your prayer is very important to us. Please wait on the line. Prayers will be answered in the order in which they are received."

 

[danieldemol]

If someone prays for something and it happens(for whatever reason) they will say/may say "See! God is real. He listened and answered my prayer".

If your prayers aren't answered what then?

Does that make god not listening? Not real? Or?

Logically in my view one could question the lack of reliable evidence for God and wonder if God is real.

But from a non rational perspective i just assume God is too lazy to intervene in this life since I've never seen an answered prayer, just people attributing things they asked for and recieved to God without any way of knowing if they came from a God or simply the people etc around them.

So I'm not expecting anything out of my lazy God in this life, just hoping for a better afterlife whilst working to make this one as good as it can be given the cards I've been dealt.

TL : DR - lazy procrastinating God will fix you up in the afterlife in my opinion.

 

[Kenny]

If someone prays for something and it happens(for whatever reason) they will say/may say "See! God is real. He listened and answered my prayer".

If your prayers aren't answered what then?

Does that make god not listening? Not real? Or?

What if we unlocked truths that actually help us in our prayer life. Or discovered why we have hinderances. In the context of my signature:

I found this one:
James 4: 3
AMPC
[Or] you do ask [God for them] and yet fail to receive, because you ask with wrong purpose and evil, selfish motives. Your intention is [when you get what you desire] to spend it in sensual pleasures.

So, it would stand to reason that if we are asking for something with wrong pruposes and/or selfish motives God says “nope”. We can see that with our children when they ask for something that is selfish in motive.

 

[ppp]

What if we unlocked truths that actually help us in our prayer life.

When you can reliably demonstrate a prayer that instant heals broken bones, eliminates food scarcity, or keeps my bread from landing butter side down, let me know.

 

[1213]

If someone prays for something and it happens(for whatever reason) they will say/may say "See! God is real. He listened and answered my prayer".

If your prayers aren't answered what then?

Does that make god not listening? Not real? Or?

I think with current knowledge, one can only say, for some reason God didn't answer yet. There can be some good reason for God not to do everything people asks, therefore not getting answer doesn't mean God is not real.

 

[Kenny]

In accordance to my signature, I have found this statement to be a great key for success...

Psalm 89:34
My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.

Too many time people pray on something that is not listed in the covenant. When you find something in the covenant, you have a basis for prayer. King David understood that reality. Of course, Jesus did also.

This portion really helped in answered prayer in my life.

 

[PureX]

Why do we presume that God is supposed to be our servant?

 

[Unseeking seeker]

My view goes like this ~ The entity (ego) who prays, is praying with the understanding that we are a limited body-mind, whereas we are a spiritual being having a human experience. This life, with all its challenges, is what we as soul chose to experience. Reworded, a nonexistent entity asks for something, neither knowing what in truth it is, much less, what God is, so what can we say?

 

[TagliatelliMonster]

Those are actually great questions. In my life, I usually can figure out where I went wrong. There are many reasons we can short-circuit our prayers.

It isn’t that He isn’t listening or that He isn’t real, as per my signature, we just learn from what happened or didn’t.

On the positive side, when we treat colon cancer, there is an 80% success rates which means that 20% are not successful. We celebrate the success and realize or study why the 20% didn’t make it. We certainly don’t throw out the treatment because there were failures.

Are you saying 80% of prayers are succesful? That the succes rate of prayer mirrors the succes rate of proven and documented ways of treating cancer?

Last time I checked, the statistical succes rate of prayer was akin to random occurance. A bit lower in fact, in case the people knew they were being prayed for.

 

[TagliatelliMonster]

Don’t think to much about it.

Yeah... thinking about stuff tends to not pack out well for religions.

 

[Kenny]

Are you saying 80% of prayers are succesful? That the succes rate of prayer mirrors the succes rate of proven and documented ways of treating cancer?

It is an analogy… not a literal representation.

Last time I checked, the statistical succes rate of prayer was akin to random occurance. A bit lower in fact, in case the people knew they were being prayed for.

I found those studies to be filled with flaws. Too many nuances in those tests.

 

[Kenny]

When you can reliably demonstrate a prayer that instant heals broken bones, eliminates food scarcity, or keeps my bread from landing butter side down, let me know.

This is a good example of why something doesn't work. They never use it.

Reminds me of a verse: "Whoever watches the wind will not plant; whoever looks at the clouds will not reap.” and then they wonder why they don’t have a harvest.