Hello and thank you for joining me for Give Him 15.

And the title of today's post is, Answers to Prayer.

For the past three days, I've been sharing with you about the power of prayer,

learning about paga, the Hebrew word for intercession. Today I'm going to share

four stories with you about answered prayer. First John 5, 1415 tells us this is the confidence

which we have before him that if we ask anything

according to his will he hears us and if we know that he hears us and whatever we ask

we know that we have the requests which we asked from him. Let these stories boost

your faith and confidence. In her book, Miracles Happen When You Pray, Quen Shearer shares the

following testimony.

Prakash, I hope I'm pronouncing his name right, a crusade worker in India looked at the lifeless body of his son and felt his heart collapse with grief.

Prakash had been out in the field sharing the gospel when he received an

urgent telegram from his wife. He rushed home and discovered that his son was nearly dead.

They couldn't afford an ambulance, so Prakash and his wife boarded a crowded bus and began the long journey to a hospital in a neighboring city.

On the way, their son's heart stopped beating. All the passengers on the bus gave him up for lost.

I felt as if a big boat of lightning had struck my heart, Prakash said.

My sorrow knew no bounds, and my wife was fully immersed in tears.

But in the midst of the tragedy, faith filled his heart

with renewed confidence and power. The child is not dead, just sleeping, Procasha announced

with boldness. It made the other, made the passengers on the bus laugh as if he were insane.

Prakasha immediately knelt down in the aisle of the bus and prayed over the body of his son.

Ten minutes into his prayer, a pulse returned to the child's body and he opened his eyes.

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