{"id":434,"date":"2017-05-27T17:16:40","date_gmt":"2017-05-27T15:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faith-blog.org\/en\/?p=434"},"modified":"2017-05-29T21:36:37","modified_gmt":"2017-05-29T19:36:37","slug":"answered-prayer-miracle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faith-blog.org\/en\/answered-prayer-miracle\/","title":{"rendered":"Every answered prayer is a miracle&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_439\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-439\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-439\" src=\"https:\/\/faith-blog.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/05\/image-1-e1495890956291-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Wired cross in Henvelez (Belgium March 2017) (c) Photography by Steffen B\u00fcrger\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-439\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wired cross in Henvelez (Belgium, May 2017)<br \/> (c) Photography by Steffen B\u00fcrger<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>God is a God of miracles.<\/p>\n<p>He, who prays and gets an answer to his prayer is experiencing a miracle.<br \/>\nHe, who says, today God is not working miracles anymore and has experienced an answer to his prayers is fooling himself.<br \/>\nHe, who pretends to believe in God but is not praying has no expectations in God.<br \/>\nFaith in God means to expect something from God.<br \/>\nWhy not, with Jesus, God has given us everything as a gift.<br \/>\nAs Paul has mentioned in the letter to the Romans: &#8220;If God is for us, who can be against us? He, who did not even spare his own son, but has given him for us all: Would he withhold something from us?&#8221; (Rom 8, 31-32 &#8211; own translation).<br \/>\nBecause of that, someone that doesn&#8217;t pray either has less or no faith at all.<br \/>\nHe, who prays with expectation has faith in God.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prayer:<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Lord, Jesus Christ, from now on I will\u00a0 come to you with expectation, I will pray with expectation and I will seek you full of expectation.<\/em><br \/>\nAMEN<\/p>\n<p>(c) Steffen B\u00fcrger (Inspired by T.L. Osborn)<br \/>\nThanks to Sarah Nafula for proofreading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>God is a God of miracles. He, who prays and gets an answer to his prayer is experiencing a miracle. He, who says, today God is not working miracles anymore and has experienced an answer to his prayers is fooling himself. He, who pretends to believe in God but is not praying has no expectations&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/faith-blog.org\/en\/answered-prayer-miracle\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":439,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,8,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faith-blog.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faith-blog.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faith-blog.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faith-blog.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faith-blog.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/faith-blog.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":455,"href":"https:\/\/faith-blog.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions\/455"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faith-blog.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faith-blog.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faith-blog.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faith-blog.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}