Do you truly believe that God answers prayers? Not because you're told so by your parents or church pastors, or the society expects you to believe so. Have you had a personal experience where God answered your prayers and you have no doubt at all it was Him? Truthfully tell us.
Lemme give my own narrative. I have a cousin in NJ who was getting to that age in women when scares of inability to ever get married started arising. She is a very prayerful person and we've been praying together about a life partner for her. At the same time, I had a friend
a guy in Jand who was wife-hunting and they knew themselves. It seemed like a perfect match. My friend started campaigning for me to support his marital overtures to my cousin. I called my cuz but she told me she was still praying about it. My friend so wanted her, that he...
came to NJ and told her he was ready to relocate to the States to be with her if she accepted his proposal. Well to cut the long story short, she turned him down. Everybody was astounded including yours truly! This was a woman approaching 38 turning a marriage proposal down...
from a very eligible bachelor! Well, the guy went ahead and married someone else and my cuz got married 2 years later. Five years down the line, my friend suffered a massive cardiac arrest and died in front of his house as the ambulance was around the corner. I called my cuz...
and told her the sad story and we were speechless for 5 minutes on the line. She summoned up courage to tell me that she really wanted to marry the guy but anytime she prayed about it, she didn't have peace. Today she's happily married with 2 beautiful kids.

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