Answered Prayers

Sometimes I forget that my God answers prayers.

Sometimes I'm so ready to explain to people that he "sometimes says no or not yet" that I forget to emphasis that he says yes too.

My Bible study has been a great reminder of God's ability to answer prayers.

Last year, we had a Mum in the group who wasn't a Christian.  She was having real problems with her kids.  We prayed about it and their behavior improved. Our Bible study actually has the kids in the same room as the adults and so often it's a little distracting.  One week see said to me in exasperation: "There is no point in coming if the kids are ratty".  I asked her to please keep coming and she said she would only come on mornings when the kids were well behaved.  I said "Okay, I'll pray for them".  This was in May last year, and she didn't miss a study for the rest of the year, because the kids behaved so well.  And Praise God, she became a Christian at the end of the year.

This year we got a new Non-Christian Mum in the group.  Her prayer point on the first day was for her son.  He cried almost every day when she left him at Pre-school. She wanted us to pray that he would stop crying.  When I saw her at Playgroup then next week she said he hadn't cry since we prayed but that "It wasn't God, it was a coincidence".  Two and a half months in, he hasn't cried once.  She said a few weeks ago "I thank God and I thank you for praying.  I know that it's God who helped him not to cry".

They might seem like small things in this horrible time of earthquakes and impending Nuclear situations.  But for these two Mums, it was serious struggles that God had helped them with.

And for me it was a reminder that God can and does answer prayers with yes.  And I am reminded to keep praying.
love B