ANSWERED PRAYERS – When God Answers Our Prayers – Daily Devotions – Little Big Things

God may not respond how we expect him to, but if we truly want his way more than our own, we are guaranteed answered prayers.
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Scripture References:
https://biblehub.com/psalms/143-1.htm
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Video Text:
Answered Prayers! Have you ever wondered why God answers some prayers, but doesn’t seem to answer others? Perhaps you’ve struggled, trying to understand when or how God will answer your prayers. Here’s a true story that helps answer these questions and will help us discover some secrets to answered prayers.

It was a cold, spring night. I was 19 years old and dressed in my very best clothes to give a speech called The Christian Meaning of Success to a large, middle-aged group at church. Although my speech wasn’t funny and held no earth-shattering revelations, many people in the audience went out of their way to make me feel special by telling me I did a great job, to the point where I secretly puffed with pride.

When the church meeting ended, it was dark outside, and an unrelenting rainstorm pounded the church grounds. I ran through the rain to my dad’s pickup and watched the wipers go back and forth while the windshield slowly defogged. Like those wipers, my mind raced back and forth, back and forth – as I struggled between worshipping God or becoming filled with myself. It was like a tug of war, and it was so real, so powerful and overwhelming that I prayed out loud, “Dear God help me worship you only. I’m sorry for being filled with pride. Please humble me, but please don’t hurt me.”

This wrestling continued in my mind as I drove down Normandale Boulevard. It was a like a fight going on in my head. God, me, God, me, God, me, as the rain continued to pound, and the wipers flew back and forth, back and forth at the same rhythm as my thoughts. The road ahead was closed due to construction and I had to take a detour onto a winding, pot-hole-filled dirt road that made the truck feel like it was a dune buggy. Because rain filled the potholes, the pickup lumbered slowly ahead as I struggled to avoid bottoming out in deep ditches. Meanwhile, just to my left, over a small hill that was no larger than a three-foot-high mound of dirt, was the newly paved road that was not yet open for traffic.

Because there were no other cars around, I decided to drive over the hill in order to drive on the paved road, even though I knew it was illegal to do so. I gunned the pickup through the mud and over the hill, but as the front tires crested the little hill, I could see the hill drop off to nothing and my truck slammed down into the middle of the hill, like a teeter-totter with all 4 wheels dangling in the air. Oh my, was I in trouble!

I got out and stepped into the sloppy mud as the rain soaked through my clothes. My dad kept sandbags in the back of his truck so I piled them all the way into the far back of the pickup bed, put the truck in reverse and bounced up and down on the rear bumper as hard as I could to try to get the tires to grab the earth, but the pickup did not move an inch.

Just then, God sent an angel, disguised as a college kid, driving an old car so I flagged him down, pulled out some ropes that we carried in the pickup and asked if he could pull me off the hill. My joy at getting help so quickly dashed as his car fish-tailed back and forth while my truck did not even budge. And then, at least in my mind, the situation got worse when he said, “Why don’t you just call the cops or get a tow truck?” I had no money for a tow truck and because I was clearly and deliberately doing something illegal, I got scared and literally started to cry right in front of this guy. I think he must’ve thought I was a nut case....

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