answered prayer

Wish from above

Answered prayer refers to a request made to God or a higher power that has been fulfilled or granted.

The phrase implies divine intervention or response: Their recovery felt like an answered prayer.

Often used figuratively for any long-hoped-for outcome that finally arrives: Finding that apartment was an answered prayer.

Opposites
divine response

answered prayerno answer

deafening silence · the void · cosmic indifference

outcome fulfillment

answered prayerdashed hopes

unmet need · wishful thinking

spiritual experience

answered prayerdark night of the soul

Intense period of spiritual emptiness

doubt · despair · existential despair

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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Abstract · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G