Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire So you don't think God answers prayers?

Last evening a man in our church had a major stoke. They got him to the hospital, ran a CAT scan and found a huge pool of blood and a lot of brain damage in his frontal cortex. The hospital here is a branch of the big one in Boise where they have a special stroke unit. They decided to fly him to Boise but the helicopter had a problem of some kind and they couldn't use it. They did a 2d CAT scan to re-assess the damage and decided it was bad enough that he really needed to get to Boise. So, they loaded him in an ambulance for the 2 hr drive. When they got to Boise, they ran yet another CAT scan. After the specialist looked at the results, he walked in the room about 3am this morning, pointed at the sky and said the man was the recipient of one of the Lord's miracles. There was no bleeding and no brain damage. It was gone.

There's always the question of why does God heal some and not others. I don't know. God will heal who he wants to heal. It's his world and he calls the shots. I was once healed myself of pneumonia about 25 years ago. I'd been very sick for over a week and was having breathing problems. My wife's aunt, who was a staunch Christian, prayed for me and it was gone. It felt like a huge belch starting at the bottom of my lungs and quickly pushing to the top. That took about 1.5 seconds I could breath freely again. It took a few days to cough the crud out of my lungs but the bug was gone.

Or, perhaps the specialist in Boise was in Boise, and not podunk Idaho for a reason?

Amen
Grandson got a Life Flight to Denver last night. That's not a good thing. This morning the church prayed for him. During the service I got a text from my son. "At this moment you would not think anything was wrong. He's up playing and laughing." GOD IS GOOD
Believe in HIM people.

Praise GOD. GOD gets all the glory!!

Let's see here, RC, just what congregation is that, you say?

Yes, PTL. HE will do more miraculous things.

This isn't podunk. The hospital here is a good one. They have a special unit in Boise for the really bad cases. A CAT that shows a big pool of blood is pretty hard to mistake.

No. But when I’m stuck between a rock and a hard spot I sure do ask for favors.

I bet there ain't a living soul out there that waited on God to pull the ripcord.

So, an old guy strokes out and gets a "miracle" but parents pray for an innocent little child's life and are denied. Is that how it works?

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Exactly. That one or two "miracles" against thousands who got prayed over but died anyway. The evidence of your God isn't what I'd call overwhelming. Or if he exists, he's a fickle and vindictive SOB.

People in Australia and Puerto Rico are praying their hearts out. They got nada.

The answer is not always what we think we want. At times, perhaps most times, the answer is better than we asked for.

Why good people have bad things happen, I do not know.

Amen!

It's because there's nobody listening, Wabi. Or as I said above, god is a cruel bastid.

Sometimes, it isn't about who you'd think it was about. Remember, that our life here is just an infinitesimally small part of eternity. That child is probably in paradise.

We are incapable of knowing the larger picture no matter how smart some people think they are.

What's vindictive about going to paradise?

Here it is, for me. I hope I can express this. It just plain "rings" true. The Law, the Ten Commandants, all.

Those are rules to keep mankind from destroying itself.

if you have ever been sinned against, you know thot that feels. Sin separates' man from God. God became God on earth in the form of Jesus to show how to live. He died on a Cross to pay for all our sins. I doubt if there was another Way.

I hope, and pray the folks here, and everywhere take Him up on His Offer.

I'll back off, and hope some else is better at the explaining.

Yeh

That’s how works

Sometimes the answer is NO, there...prayers were answered.

Always expect God’s will to be done, not man’s.

Typical idiotic post from you. I seldom read anything from you that was actually worth the time and effort it took.

Amen...
Wretched man that I am...
But that His blood was shed for me.

He has answered mine.