Does Prayer Make a Difference?

Have you ever asked yourself these questions?

What is prayer? When should we pray? Where should we pray? Where did the people of Bible times pray? How do we pray? Why should we pray? Does prayer make a difference.?



This book will help you to find these answers. It may also inspire you to learn more about prayer on your own. Perhaps then you will want to pray more. There is a very good chance that you will become closer to God if you follow what you learn in this book. You may find this to be very exciting to see how God answers prayer. Maybe you have already known the thrill of answered prayer. Take it from one who is still learning. IT IS EXCITING!



Each day you can read another portion of a book the author of this blog is writing.

We'll start with the last question above. DOES PRAYER MAKE A DIFFERENCE?



While reading a book by Donal S. Whitney, this blogger read the following about the difference prayer made in his life. The book was "SPIRITUAL DISCIPLINES FOR THE CHRISTIAN LIFE".



He explains that his wife works at a job where she only has assignments occasionally. Since she hadn't been getting too many assignments, they started praying that God would increase her assignments.



Here's what happened after they started praying. One morning she called her husband, Donald S. Whitney, from her office and said,



" 'Please stop praying that the Lord will provide art work for me! I've had so many callers commissioning work this morning that it's going to take months to get it all done!'

She never had so much work come her way so quickly. There were any number of things I had been praying for (regarding not just myself, but my church and others) that the Lord could have chosen to answer. I don't know why it pleased Him to choose that particular request. Were these multiple opportunities really answers to prayer or just coincidences? God knows for sure. But I agree with the man who said, 'If it is coincidence, I sure have a lot more coincidences when I pray than when I don't.' "



Readers, if you decide to read this blog, you are making a decision to learn more about prayer. Here's the second quote from Mr. Whitney's book.

"Unless I'm badly mistaken, one of the main reasons so many of God's children don't have a significant prayer life is not so much that we don't want to, but that we don't plan to."



But that's not true of you if you decide to follow this blog almost every day. You are about to learn the answer to the question which is the title for tomorrow's blog.



Does prayer make a difference?