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Once a man was asked, \u201cwhat did you gain by regularly praying to God?\u201d The man replied, \u201cNothing\u2026but let me tell you what I lost: anger, ego, greed, depression, insecurity, and fear of death.\u201d Sometimes the answer to our prayers is not gaining but losing; which ultimately is the gain.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Once a man was asked, \u201cwhat did you gain by regularly praying to God?\u201d The man replied, \u201cNothing\u2026but let me tell you what I lost: anger, ego, greed, depression, insecurity, and fear of death.\u201d Sometimes the answer to our prayers is not gaining but losing; which ultimately is the gain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2344,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[304],"class_list":["post-2343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-encourage","tag-encourage"],"yoast_head":"\nWhen Prayer's Answer Is Losing, Not Gaining<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A moving story about a man who found that prayer's true gift was losing anger, ego, greed, and fear, not gaining worldly things. 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