How God Confirms
That He Has Answered Prayer

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By
The Man Who Saw God Face To Face
Raphael Okechukwu Nweze

1. By light, which may be a flashlight, beam light or searchlight. Also, the colour of the light is very important. The colour may be white, green, yellow, golden or red colour.
   


2. By prophecy, which includes dream, vision, trance, voice or otherwise.
   


3. By signs and wonders, which include the manifestations of things considered to be impossible. 18 And Zacharias said to the angel, "How shall I know this? For I am an old man, and my wife is well advanced in years."
   19 And the angel answered and said to him, "I am Gabriel, who stands in the presence of God, and was sent to speak to you and bring you these glad tidings. 20 But behold, you will be mute and not able to speak until the day these things take place, because you did not believe my words which will be fulfilled in their own time."
   21 And the people waited for Zacharias, and marveled that he lingered so long in the temple. 22 But when he came out, he could not speak to them; and they perceived that he had seen a vision in the temple, for he beckoned to them and remained speechless. 23 So it was, as soon as the days of his service were completed, that he departed to his own house. 24 Now after those days his wife Elizabeth conceived; and she hid herself five months, saying, 25 "Thus the Lord has dealt with me, in the days when He looked on me, to take away my reproach among people." Luke 1:18-25
   
   Moreover the LORD spoke again to Ahaz, saying, 11 "Ask a sign for yourself from the LORD your God; ask it either in the depth or in the height above."
   12 But Ahaz said, "I will not ask, nor will I test the LORD!"
   13 Then he said, "Hear now, O house of David! Is it a small thing for you to weary men, but will you weary my God also? 14 Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign : Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and shall call His name Immanuel. Isaiah 7:10-15
   
   4 And the word of the LORD came to Isaiah, saying, 5 "Go and tell Hezekiah, 'Thus says the LORD, the God of David your father: "I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears; surely I will add to your days fifteen years. 6 I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria, and I will defend this city."' 7 And this is the sign to you from the LORD, that the LORD will do this thing which He has spoken: 8 Behold, I will bring the shadow on the sundial, which has gone down with the sun on the sundial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward." So the sun returned ten degrees on the dial by which it had gone down. Isaiah 38:4-8
   
   17 Now Elizabeth's full time came for her to be delivered, and she brought forth a son. 58 When her neighbors and relatives heard how the Lord had shown great mercy to her, they rejoiced with her. 59 So it was, on the eighth day, that they came to circumcise the child; and they would have called him by the name of his father, Zacharias. 60 His mother answered and said,"No; he shall be called John."
   61 But they said to her, "There is no one among your relatives who is called by this name." 62 So they made signs to his father — what he would have him called.
   
   63 And he asked for a writing tablet, and wrote, saying, "His name is John." So they all marveled. 64 Immediately his mouth was opened and his tongue loosed, and he spoke, praising God. 65 Then fear came on all who dwelt around them; and all these sayings were discussed throughout all the hill country of Judea. 66 And all those who heard them kept them in their hearts, saying, "What kind of child will this be?" And the hand of the Lord was with him. Luke 1:57-66
   


4. By objects, examples of which are the following: a. Trumpet means victory or call. b. Clean water means life or prosperity.
   


5. By wind which blows when the minister asks for a sign.
   


6. By merit, which people should attain by prayer, fasting, effort or service.
   


7. By silence, which does not mean that God does not care.
   
   Then the LORD answered me and said:
   "Write the vision
   And make it plain on tablets,
   That he may run who reads it.
   3 For the vision is yet for an appointed time;
   But at the end it will speak, and it will not lie.
   Though it tarries, wait for it;
   Because it will surely come,
   It will not tarry.
   Habakkuk 2:2-3
   


8. By parable, which usually come in the form of dreams, visions, etc. People should study Spiritual Science to be able to interpret God’s messages.
   


9. In expected ways. . .
   


10. By unexpected ways,
    
    8 "For My thoughts are not your thoughts,
    Nor are your ways My ways," says the LORD.
    9 "For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
    So are My ways higher than your ways,
    And My thoughts than your thoughts.
    Isaiah 55:8-9
    


11. In phases, bit by bit or in stages.
    
    27 "I will send My fear before you, I will cause confusion among all the people to whom you come, and will make all your enemies turn their backs to you. 28 And I will send hornets before you, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite from before you. 29 I will not drive them out from before you in one year, lest the land become desolate and the beasts of the field become too numerous for you. 30 Little by little I will drive them out from before you, until you have increased, and you inherit the land. Exodus 23:27-31
    


12. At appointed times.
    
    9 Then they said to him, "Where is Sarah your wife?"
    So he said, "Here, in the tent."
    10 And He said, "I will certainly return to you according to the time of life, and behold, Sarah your wife shall have a son."
    (Sarah was listening in the tent door which was behind him.) 11 Now Abraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in age; and Sarah had passed the age of childbearing. 12 Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, "After I have grown old, shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?" 13 And the LORD said to Abraham, "Why did Sarah laugh, saying, 'Shall I surely bear a child, since I am old?' 14 Is anything too hard for the LORD? At the appointed time I will return to you, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son." Genesis 18:9-14