In what ways have your prayers been answered?

As I faced my addictions to prescription drugs a very wise missionary once told me , "Why don't you ask God for help and have faith that He will? Ask him to take this burden off your shoulders. Ask and you shall receive." As I began my third day of severe withdrawals I thought "What the heck. Count me in – this is worth a shot." I got on my knees and have never prayed so long and hard in my entire life. By the time I was done I was sobbing like a baby, but as I collected myself I began to feel better…my head and body wasn’t hurting nearly as bad as when I first woke up that morning. At that point I had faith He could help and I believed He was going to help me at this point.

Then, in a moment of weakness later that day I was about to succomb to the temptations I had been fighting. I wanted so badly to take the pills my body was craving and withdrawaling from for the past several days. Before I swallowed those pills though I prayed one final time, and I heard a still small voice saying 'flush them.' With great faith in the Lord, and strength from Him as well, I walked to the toilet and flushed my pills down the toilet. I couldn't believe I did that but as soon as I did my headache, body aches...all of my physical withdrawal symptoms, well, they went away in their entirety. Not only that, but the mental angst one goes through for months on end (the constant, and I mean constant thoughts… ‘go take pills, drink alcohol, smoke pot’… the bad thoughts that make a person relapse), well, for the first time in my life those thoughts are not there. My prayer had been answered.