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How Are Prayers Answered? "On the day I called, you answered me; you increased strength within me." Psalm 138:3 How does God answer prayers? The answer starts from how God helps us through the Holy Spirit. From today's bible, we see that the psalmist offers thanks to God for His help and a strong sense of personal gratitude to show how God has helped him through persecutions and oppositions from the enemy. In other words, he is saying that he had an assurance that his prayer was answered even when he had not received it, but believed he would have a gracious return in due time is granted unto him. Today's bible verse enlightens us on one of how God quickly answers prayers, not by giving us the very thing we desired at that moment, but by giving us inward support and patience to wait for God's time and to bear all his troubles cheerfully in the meantime. Beloved, if God gives us strength in our souls, to bear the burdens, resist temptations, and to do the duties of an afflicted state; if he strengthens us to r