100 Amazing Answers to Prayer

by Petersen, William J.; Petersen, Randy

• ISBN13: 9780800758318
• ISBN10: 0800758315
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-03-01
• Publisher: Fleming H Revell Co

Summary

100 Amazing Answers to Prayer gives true accounts from the lives of ordinary people, historical figures, celebrities, and others. Each story packs a punch of inspiration that will draw you toward the living, miracle-working God. Quotes, prayers, and Scriptures lend devotional flair to this book, helping you move into a life of your own answered prayers. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Our Amazing God	9	(4)
Prayer in the Hot Spots: How God Works in and around the Headlines	13	(18)
Kabul: Unlocking the Taliban Prison
Oklahoma City: ``I Couldn't Out-run Prayer''
East Germany: Why the Wall Came Tumbling Down
Beirut: ``It Was Just God and Me''
Pearl Harbor: ``Father, Forgive Them''
Moscow: ``What a God We've Got''
``Pray for the Miners''
Cape Town: The End of Apartheid
Surprise, Surprise: When God Does the Unexpected	31	(15)
Moving a Mountain by Faith
Rhoda's Big Surprise
Prayer Answers by the Bunch
Russian Room Service
When God Healed a Wind-mill
The Mysterious Phone Booth
Les Lemke's Hidden Talent
Miracle Well in the Persian Desert
Look What You Started: Sometimes a Small Prayer Results in Something Huge	46	(19)
They Weren't Known for Their Praying
Two Women of the New Hebrides
The Man Who Revived New York City
Ola Culpepper and Her Optic Neuritis
From Soles to Souls
The C in YMCA
``Something Too Big for Us''
Bibles and Wild Turkeys
What They Found in a Haystack
Long Distance, Please: God Is Not Bound by Geography	65	(11)
Kidnapping in the Ivory Coast
The Spiritual Power of a Bedridden Girl
The Sinking of the Titanic
``Stay in the Net''
A Verse for Vietnam
Just in the Nick of Time: When God's Answer Comes a Moment before It Would Have Been Too Late	76	(13)
Saved by a Cloud
The Miracle at Valley Forge
Livingstone's Lion
The Rescue of ``Hernia City''
Rickenbacker and the Seagull
Why the Baker Couldn't Sleep
Out of the Ordinary: Even Commonplace Things Can Be God's Instruments	89	(14)
I Want Three Ripe Tomatoes, John
Does God Care about Angel Food Loaf Cakes?
Send Us a Hot Water Bottle This Afternoon, Lord
Following a Little Bird
Blue Coats and a Flashing Blue Light
Exactly Five Pounds of Potatoes
Honey, Go Buy Those Bluebonnets
Everyone Talks about the Weather, But ... Miracles regarding Nature	103	(14)
The Pilgrims' Weather Report
Astrup's Rain
Why the French Invasion Never Happened
The Christians Carried Umbrellas
How God Answered Prayer on D-Day
George Muller in a Fog
Watchman Nee and the Island of Mei-Hwa
Lost Sheep and the Searching Shepherd: Remarkable Conversion Stories in Answer to Prayer	117	(18)
The Face in the Photo Section
The NAACP and the Klan
What Happens When Mothers Pray
The Prayers of ``Little Bilney''
The Depression of Mordecai Ham
The Detective Had No Clothes
He Kept on Praying for Fifty-Two Years
The Miracle That Didn't Happen
He Had Heard It All Before
People You May Know: Famous People Relying on Prayer	135	(18)
Brother Andrew's Prayer: Lord, Make Seeing Eyes Blind
Bill Bright's Prayer: Confirm the Vision, Lord
Mother Teresa's Prayer: Only You
Billy Graham's Prayer: Oh God, Use Me a Little Bit
Francis Schaeffer's Prayer: Father, Show Us What to Do
Catherine Marshall's Prayer: I Am Beaten, I Am Whipped, I Am Through
C. S. Lewis's Prayer: He Was the Hunter, I Was the Deer
Charles Colson's Prayer: Somehow I Want to Give Myself to You
Who Needs to Be a Millionaire? God's Provision for Those in Need	153	(17)
Saved by Two Carloads of Cattle
Delivery Service for Billy Bray
The Hour of Decision for the Hour of Decision
The Cast-Iron Stove
Running Out of Miracles?
Building on a Better Foundation
Ask Jesus More Often
Bologna and Burritos
How Did I Ever Get into This?
I Didn't Know Angels Looked Like That: God's Messengers at Work in Strange Places	170	(15)
Undercover Cops under Angels' Care
The Hidden Bible
Guarded by the Lord's Host
You Never Know When You Might Need It
Singing in the Skies
Not Exactly Angelic Angels
The Bottomless Canyon
The Touch of the Master's Hand: When God Heals Miraculously	185	(18)
Drive-by Praying at the Brothels
The Healing Judge
Can You Pray for a Horse?
The Pastor Who Lost His Voice
The Case of the Reluctant Healer
``You Can't,'' They Said, but She Did
The Resurrection of Khev Choen
We Can't Spare You Yet
Go to IHOP
When Even the Road Map Seems Mixed Up: How God Opens Doors When All You See Are Walls	203	(16)
Tall Order for a Little Woman
Betty Greene and Her Flying Machine
With a Baseball Bat in His Car
Is Now the Time to Turn Back?
Mr. Creator, Who Made the Peanut?
Getting Away from It All
The Rise of a Rose
The Hills Are Alive
Acknowledgments	219