This week I traveled to Greenville, SC to be a guest on the Peggy Denny Show on WGGS TV 16.  (The show will air in the Greenville area on Oct. 3 at 1 PM)
Peggy is a delightful person and it was a pleasure to talk with her on camera about prayer.  When we were talking about the three main categories of prayer answers and I was describing presence answers Peggy said, “I know what you’re talking about.”Â
She had earlier explained to me that three years ago her health had been chronically bad and she couldn’t seem to get better.  One day she became so ill that her husband called Duke University Hospital and got her an appointment with one of the head specialists.  It turned out that Peggy actually had been suffering from cancer in one of her kidneys.  Luckily it hadn’t spread. Â
Peggy said, “As they were wheeling me into surgery I felt God was there with me. It was an incredibly peaceful feeling.”
I told Peggy, “Yes, that was a presence answer to prayer and it was real.” I went on to say how we don’t often hear presence answers shared in group meetings or being passed along prayer chains as answers to prayer because they’re so wonderfully personal.  Presence answers touch our emotions in ways you simply have to feel to understand.  Other people can’t transfer their feelings of God’s nearness to us. Therefore, presence answers to prayer are as unique as we are and the most treasured of all because they are the individualized touch of God on our hearts and souls that transcend all understanding.Â