GOD ANSWER OUR PRAYER
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As a human being with all our weaknesses, we often doubt the presence of God in our lives. When we pray, it seems there is no answer at all, that God seems does not care about us. However, if we truly believe in God then we will know and see that God works in an unexpectable way.
Sometimes, it takes years before He will answer a prayer. That was what happened to the prayer of the Christian mother of E. Howard Cadle. By the time he was 12, Cadle was already emulating his father, an alcoholic. It would take just a matter of time before he would be in the grip of sex, gambling, and the crime syndicate.
“Always remember, son,” his worried mother often said, “that at eight o’clock every night I’ll be kneeling beside your bed, asking God to protect my precious boy.” But her prayers didn’t seem to slow him down until one evening, on a rampage, he pulled a gun on a man and squeezed the trigger. The weapon never fired and someone quickly knocked it away. Cadle noticed that it was exactly eight o’clock.
It came to pass that Cadle’s health deteriorated and the doctor told him he had only six months to live. Dragging himself home, penniless and pitiful, he collapsed in his mother’s arms saying, “Mother, I’ve broken your heart. I’d like to be saved, but I’ve sinned too much.”
The old woman opened her Bible and read Isiah 1:18 which said: “Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow.” that windswept morning, on March 14, 1914, Cadle became a Christian.
Sometimes, it takes years before He will answer a prayer. That was what happened to the prayer of the Christian mother of E. Howard Cadle. By the time he was 12, Cadle was already emulating his father, an alcoholic. It would take just a matter of time before he would be in the grip of sex, gambling, and the crime syndicate.
“Always remember, son,” his worried mother often said, “that at eight o’clock every night I’ll be kneeling beside your bed, asking God to protect my precious boy.” But her prayers didn’t seem to slow him down until one evening, on a rampage, he pulled a gun on a man and squeezed the trigger. The weapon never fired and someone quickly knocked it away. Cadle noticed that it was exactly eight o’clock.
It came to pass that Cadle’s health deteriorated and the doctor told him he had only six months to live. Dragging himself home, penniless and pitiful, he collapsed in his mother’s arms saying, “Mother, I’ve broken your heart. I’d like to be saved, but I’ve sinned too much.”
The old woman opened her Bible and read Isiah 1:18 which said: “Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow.” that windswept morning, on March 14, 1914, Cadle became a Christian.
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