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Can I Get Whatever I Ask in Prayer? I suspect that most people’s concept of prayer is that of Huck Finn. He tells how Miss Watson tried to teach him to pray, but says nothing came of it. “She told me to pray every day and whatever I asked for I would get it. But it warn’t so. I tried it. Once I got a fish line, but no hooks. It warn’t any good to me without hooks. I tried for the hooks three or four times, but somehow I couldn’t make it work.”Well, somebody’s wrong. Either Huck Finn or me. I say you can [...]

Can Our Faith Literally Move Grandfather Mountain?   Some 15 years ago I saw a mountain moved into a valley. Sure as shootin’ I watched it happen. Highway 321 was being widened up from Lenoir, and previously the road went around a mountain just outside Blowing Rock near a fruit stand. Over several months I saw a group of workers move that mountain and put it in the deep gully nearby and even build the road over it. But it wasn’t done through a series of prayer meetings; they used gigantic earth movers to do the job. Did Jesus really say your faith [...]