Answered Prayer

 As my Christian walk began, I knew that prayer is an important part of my relationship with God. Being a new-born I had to learn how to pray and the best lesson I got was to just talk to God, "simple". So I began my prayer life praising God for what He was doing in my life and also asking for guidance in my walk.
 Some request were "simple", good health, discernment, strength in temptations, etc. Some examples of answered prayer for me were:
 Being able to purchase a home. God had blessed me to be a carpenter. I am still employed in this field, but God has provided work for me and guided me to be able to purchase a home.
 Enjoy time away from work to go on hunting trips. I enjoy upland bird hunting and God has blessed me to afford 2 great hunting dogs and be able to travel to locations to hunt. ie: Arizona many times, a week in Idaho, (never been there before), a week in North Dakota pheasant hunting. It was this trip to ND that I met Leon, an avid hunter, who asked me to come to ND to help him build a new home 3 years later.
 My wife Holly. I had come to Jesus after my second marriage dissolved. I knew that a life alone was not for me, so one of my earliest prayers was for God to lead me to a wife, A: close to my age. B: not much baggage from life. C: a believer. Being 42 at that  time I knew it was a tall order for God to fill. But God is awesome and I met Holly at the local church on Palomar Mountain. She is 4 years younger than I, never married, and a life long believer. Wow, I thought I hit the lottery. But she was not interested in me at all, being a divorced person. It took 5 years of prayer and God put me on her heart and after a short time dating we were married in Sept. 2009.
 The house I currently live in. Holly & I came to ND with no home to live in. There is an oil boom going on here, so housing is very limited and expensive. Leon offered us a bedroom in his basement until we got on our feet. So that is where we stayed until a new friend of Holly's, from her job, offered us to stay in her families old farm house. It sits on 8 acres just outside the Williston city limits. It was for sale, but no one had bought it yet. One week after we moved in, Nov 1st, a developer from Minn. bought it. They had a 90 day escrow till they took ownership, so we knew we were safe until Feb. but what then. It would be the middle of winter in North Dakota, not a good time to be homeless. So we prayed that something would happen that we could stay in the house till spring. The sale ran into problems and got delayed 6 weeks. We made it. But the kicker is that the developer planned to tear down the house to build apartment buildings so the question was asked, "Why not let Pete & Holly have the house?" The developer said, "Sure, why not!" So now we are in the process of hiring movers to jack up the house and move it to our 1 acre property, (another answered prayer), just west of town.
 Bottom Line, Prayer is Simple. Don't neglect it. Keep praying. Be patient.