Can God Still Answer Specific Prayers?

An endless beach, a small object and lots of prayer.

Costa Azul, Nicaragua

Sometimes in our daily, busy preoccupied lives God feels the need to shock us with the realization of his power to answer specific prayers. We just had an awesome week in Nicaragua with our home church, Broadneck EP, from Annapolis, Maryland. After a hard week of working, we brought the team to a beautiful, open beach on the Pacific Ocean. It stretched on for miles in either direction, a purely natural setting without the presence of any hotels or boardwalks. Simple vast beauty! The team had a great time in the huge waves, collecting seashells and playing football on the beach. After an intense game of beach football, the team was rinsing off before lunch when Paul looked down and noticed his wedding ring was missing from his hand!! Paul calmly came over to me and told me I needed to remain calm after what he tells me, and then he showed me his hand without his ring on it. He said that he's pretty sure it came off during the beach football game, so the team gathered together and we prayed. Then we decided to walk the beach where the game was played in a line-search formation. I had little hope of finding the ring and was preparing myself for the bad news, but still I looked. The group walked the entire football game area and ended at the other side, and still no one had seen it. I looked down the endless beach line, assessed the odds, and then we all walked back again. Everyone seemed pretty silent as they walked and I'm sure most were praying. Just then I looked down and saw a cylindrical shape in the sand where it looked like a circular object had been pressed down, so I ran my fingers through the sand and there it was!!! Paul's ring buried just beneath the surface of the sand!!! I could not believe how good God is!!! and how amazing it was for me to be the one who picked it up, among all the group!!! Everyone cheered! Paul picked me up and everyone was really happy. It was just amazing to see God demonstrate how he can, and will, answer specific prayers offered in faith!!!! The odds of finding it among the waves and endless beach were incredible, but with God and through God it was possible.