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(Our buddy Rhett Burns, host of Avoid Being an Idiot, in answer to our request for stories of answered prayer, offered the following guest post.  Enjoy!)

Our God is certainly a God who hears and answers the prayers of His people. I have experienced this truth numerous times in life. However, when Andy asked me to write a guest post on God’s answer to specific prayers, I did not know exactly what to write. Which really makes me regret not keeping a journal or list of things I’ve prayed for and how God has answered them.

With that said, I’d love to share with you some examples of how prayer has impacted my life. Some are more important than others, which just shows that Jesus is Lord over all of life, not just what we deem spiritual.

God cares and answers prayers about your work

I work as Sports Information Director at North Greenville University. Two football seasons ago, our 25 second play clock malfunctioned several times during the season, but managed to work adequately throughout the regular season. But it quit just before we hosted the biggest football game in school history—the NCCAA’s Victory Bowl.

So I shipped the controller off to Canada to get fixed. It was supposed to arrive via UPS on Friday (the day before the game), but it did not. So I’m praying I will get the controller back by game time on Saturday. It arrives two hours before the game. Great! Not really, it still didn’t work. So I’m trying everything I know to do. We’re taking it apart. We’re praying. I’m telling coaches and referees that it’s not working. They’re mad. I’m still praying.

Five minutes before the game starts, I try one last thing as I’m still praying. I hit it as hard as I can.
Praise God, it worked. The coaches weren’t mad anymore and we won the bowl game. Jesus showed me that day that I need to trust my work to Him.

God cares and answers prayer in His own time

We joke with my sister about her seven years of tribulation—the years she spent at college and then living in the city where she went to school. She went through a lot. Much of it self-inflicted, unfortunately. As a family we prayed for her. A lot. A whole lot.

But she was blind to the life she was living. And would not change.

Honestly, I got mad at her and quit praying. I don’t think my parents did though.

And then, in 2004, God changed her. She moved in with me and I got to see the transformation take place up close. Here I was, the one who quit praying and I got to be on the front lines of seeing Jesus change her life.

It wasn’t on my time. But God nonetheless answered our prayers.

God gave me a wonderful wife

I know it sounds kind of sappy, but growing up I longed to be in love with someone. I remember praying for a wife. For someone to love and to love me. I chased that feeling of love in many wrong places and it caused much sin.

Then , I met Shannon. And I fell in love. We got married last December. The depth of love between us is a beautiful glimpse of the depth of love Jesus has for us.

So there are just a few examples from my life of the power and purpose of prayer. Pray hard. Pray often. Pray specific. And if you think about it, pray for me. Shannon and I are making some big decisions right now that require us to rely on God answering the prayers of His people. God bless.

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