Why Do I Pray .com

Many of us believe in the power of Prayer.

Please enjoy looking around this site to see why many of us appreciate our personal conversations with God. Prayer isn’t complicated and it does not require anyone else but ourself & God.

Share with us your testimony so I can add it to this site. Tell us how God has answered your prayers, or how prayer has helped change your life. Tell us why you believe Prayer works. Let me know how by sending me your story or stories thru text at 1-434-728-0952 or by email at davidgluhareff@gmail.com or trainwithdaveg@yahoo.com .

  • A Kids Prayer Before Meals

    My two youngest kids usually have a go-to Prayer they use before meals when they are asked to Pray. I asked my youngest (6) to help me write this so I can share that Prayer:

    (It’s like a rhyming song/Prayer combo)

    We are thankful, we are thankful, for our food, for our food. All of us together, all of us together, thank you God, thank you God.

    Amen.

  • His Love Endures Forever

    “Praise the Lord. Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good; His love endures forever. Who can proclaim the mighty acts of the Lord or fully declare His praise? Blessed are they who maintain justice, who constantly do what is right.”

    – Psalm 106:1-3

  • Prayer and a Shooting Star

    When I was about 17 years old my Mother was having some heart issues and it was scary for us all because her Mom (my Grandmother) had had an open heart surgery a few years prior. The tests were not going well and we were all very concerned. I remember one night clearly I went outside to take a walk to walk off some stress and worry and my girlfriend at the time joined me. I didn’t want to bother her but I started talking about how I was feeling about the test results and what we were in for in regards to options for Mom’s survival.

    I/we had prayed that night earlier and just as my girlfriend and I were walking in the dark down my driveway we both looked up and saw a bright shooting star, clear as day, go across the sky in front of us…we both couldn’t believe and stood still and in awe at what had just happened as we discussed Mom. A calm feeling fell over me and I began to cry…not wanting to because I thought I’d look like a wuss lol but I couldn’t help it. I knew at that very moment God was telling me Mom would be ok. I knew with 100 percent certainty it was all going to be ok and it was.

    About 18-19 years later my Mom had some pains and went in for a heart catherization and then had open heart surgery for the blockages and still lived more years until lymphoma came and took her life.

    God was speaking to me that night with an answer in that one lone shooting star on our walk at that exact moment when I was sad and desperate to not lose my Mom. He answered my prayers as a teenager again.

    • Dave (Virginia, USA)

  • Hear My Prayer O Lord

    “Bend down, O Lord, and hear my prayer; answer me, for I need your help. Listen closely to my prayer, O Lord; hear my urgent cry.”

    – Psalm 86:1, 6

  • God Hears Our Voices In Prayer!

    “Come and listen, all you who fear GOD; let me tell you what HE has done for me. I cried out to HIM with my mouth; HIS praise was on my tongue. If I had cherished sin in my heart, the LORD would not have listened; but GOD has surely listened and heard my voice in prayer. Praise be to GOD, who has not rejected my prayer or withheld HIS love from me!”

    – Psalm 66:16-20

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  • Prayer Heals! Recent story of an ear problem healed!

    When it comes to healing, God has provided an endless supply for those who ask. Sometimes healing comes instantaneously and other times we have to wait .

    As an as an evangelist traveling for over 25 years. There are endless stories that I could share where I saw God do incredible things. When it comes to healing, we have to trust God to do it his way, often in the waiting people get discouraged and give up, then wondering why God never healed them. We must trust the process and allow him to do what he does best.

    A recent story of healing and one that was so gratifying was a dear sister in my church. She had been suffering for a few months with one of her ears being stopped up the doctors tried everything drops procedures, antibiotics nothing seemed to help then she found herself getting worse as the other ear was beginning to close off as well. With her hearing fading, she become very discouraged and almost out of faith, but that Sunday morning The Lord impressed upon me to go over and lay my hands on her ears and command them to open in his name so I obeyed. I laid my hands on her ears, prayed that God would open them. I went back to my seat because I know that I’m not the healer. Later in the service she reached over excitedly and said, “my ears just popped open. I can hear better now than I did before this started.”That was probably a month ago and today her ears are still open!

    If you trust God and believe in him, the miracles that he can perform are endless never give up just keep holding on and you too will see Him move in your life.

    – Dr. Shelia Isom (Virginia, USA)

    http://www.drsisom.org


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  • God is our Refuge. Trust in Him.

    “Trust in HIM at all times, O people; pour out your hearts to HIM, for GOD is our refuge.”

    – Psalm 62:8

    So many times in my life have I trusted God and things would work out for the better. It didn’t usually go as I had planned but it went as HE, GOD, planned it to go.

    Having Faith in God is what gets us thru. Prayer to God, those conversations with God, the desperate outpouring of emotions to our God is what helps us get on track and stay the course…Faith and Prayer is how we make it thru the tough times.

    God is our refuge.

  • Cry out to HIM

    “Evening, morning, and noon I cry out in distress, and HE hears my voice.”

    Psalm 55:17

  • My two youngest got Baptized Sunday

    My two youngest, of my four kids, got Baptized this past Sunday. It was a beautiful day with close family and friends being so supportive and loving. I’m so proud of them for making this decision on their own like I did as a kid.

    Leading up to the Baptisms was a tuff week. I felt like I was being attacked all week from a few people and issues that weren’t from me. The night before and early morning hours of the Baptisms I was having unsettling dreams that seemed to be from the guy downstairs so I prayed to The Man Upstairs, my God, for safety and protection of my kids, all of them, and all of my family because it was a dark attack I was feeling for days. I prayed for my two youngest to make it to their Baptisms and stay safe. Without going into detail these attacks were something I haven’t felt so intense before and it’s been happening for weeks. So many things that could go wrong did go wrong or at least tried too. So many people tried to take the wind out of my sails but it didn’t happen…with prayer and Faith I was able to overcome these attacks.

    I’m not an alarmist or some supernatural strange believer but I know what I was feeling and it was not good, it wasn’t light… it was darkness. Prayer was and is my go-to and this past week it gave me strength and peace in times of some very uncomfortable situations.

    I told my wife about this the morning of the Baptisms and she prayed for us all too. I didn’t want to say anything all week because I didn’t want to alarm her. I’m so very lucky to have such a wonderful wife who is equally yoked with me.

  • This past week…

    This past week was full of so many ups and downs…many downs. I felt like I was getting hit from every direction from so many things and people that weren’t healthy and right. I prayed hard all week and stayed true to what was right, what was healthy, what was honest and things worked out in business and in personal matters.

    The easy path would have been to avoid or cave in and go with what the world was doing but I simply couldn’t and I can’t. I have to stand up for what’s right and many times it makes me a target by others but with prayer and my Faith I made it thru the week getting so much accomplished and many issues settled.