---
"title": "Answered Prayers"
"description": "That's the number of American adults who say they have received a definite answer to a specific prayer request. About one-in-four say they have received a direct revelation from God."
"date": "2006-11-14"
"authors":
  -
    "name": "Russell Heimlich"
    "job_title": "Former web developer"
    "link": "https://alpha.pewresearch.org/pewresearch-org/staff/russell-heimlich/"
"url": "https://alpha.pewresearch.org/pewresearch-org/short-reads/2006/11/14/answered-prayers/"
---

# Answered Prayers

Over half of Americans surveyed (55%) in a recent Pew Forum poll said that they had received a definite answer to a specific prayer request. About one-in-four Americans (26%) reported that they had received a direct revelation from God. Pentecostals and other renewalist populations reported higher rates than other Christians, with 77% of pentecostals and 63% of charismatics saying they had received an answer to a prayer, while 54% of pentecostals and 39% of charismatics said they had received a revelation. [Read More](https://alpha.pewresearch.org/pewresearch-org/pubs/254/pentecostal-power)