It's time for another hashtag STR-ask podcast from Stand to Reason.

I'm Amy Hall, and I'm here with Greg Kokel.

Hi, Amy.

And we are looking forward to getting

to our questions today. We are. Well, we'll start with one from Dan. We will.

All right, here is Dan's question. Now, he's got a lot of things here, so we might have to

go back through and go through a little more carefully. But why do Christians

buy health insurance? Don't Christians believe that God answers prayer? Don't Christians believe that God

has the healing power to heal your ailments? Why do Christians pay for medicines and vitamins? Can't

God keep you healthy? If God loves you and cares about you,

then he certainly wants you to be healthy, correct? Shouldn't Christians put their faith into

actions? Shouldn't Christians walk the talk? Well, there's a lot there. I don't think he's a

Christian. No, he's not. The answer to most of his questions is yes yes, can't God do this? Can't God do that? Shouldn't we ask God, trust God, etc. C.S. Lewis made an interesting observation here that's helpful to anyone countenancing the challenges of their prayer life.

And the challenges are praying and not getting answers or not getting answers immediately

or not getting the answers that you pray for.

And it's a bit of a mystery to me, the calculus of prayer.

I've mentioned this before. How does prayer work?

We go to texts that say that we need to believe and trust, and our believing in our trust,

is going to make a difference in God answering. And I think that's one of the principles of prayer,

but it's not the only one. There are lots of times where Jesus performed a miracle,

not in virtue of somebody else's faith, but in virtue of his compassion for them.

There are times when the apostles are praying for Peter's release in Acts, what, chapter

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