Vault: Listeners Reveal How Prayer Helped Them Through Crisis

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Episode Overview

Title: Vault: Listeners Reveal How Prayer Helped Them Through Crisis
Date: April 8, 2026
Theme:
This episode of The Bert Show focuses on stories from listeners who have experienced what they describe as “instantly answered prayers” during moments of crisis. Prompted by a news story about a woman whose prayers reportedly stopped an assault, Bert and the team invite listeners to call in and share their own powerful experiences with prayer, exploring themes of faith, doubt, skepticism, and the mysterious ways in which people interpret divine intervention.

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Key Discussion Points and Insights

1. Opening Inspiration: News Story Sets the Stage

• [02:13] – [02:34]
  • Kelly shares a recent news story: A woman in Austell, Georgia experienced an attack in her home. The assailant stopped when she began praying out loud, invoking Jesus’ name. He was later arrested.
  • Bert frames the morning’s topic: Has anyone out there had a prayer instantly answered—not after weeks, but immediately, like in the woman’s story?

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2. Defining “Instant Answered Prayer”

• [02:34] – [03:57]
  • Bert and callers break down what counts: Not minor wishes (“no more red lights on my drive”), but significant, life-changing moments, such as sudden financial windfalls or medical recoveries.
  • Memorable Example: “If you're driving to work going, 'Please, God, I need something because they're gonna cut off the electricity at my house…' and you win $500 on a scratch-off.” (Caller/Listener, [03:10])

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3. Listener Stories: Personal Accounts of Answered Prayer

• Allison’s Wedding & Weather Miracle

  • [04:15] – [05:02]
  • Allison shares how her Florida beach wedding, ruined by rain, literally cleared up 30 minutes before the ceremony after she and her family prayed.
  • Quote: “Basically the wedding was at 6pm, 5:30 all the clouds disappeared and the sun came out. It was amazing.” (Allison, [04:30])
  • Bert asks if it changed her faith: “No, but I am more of a believer.” (Allison, [05:18])

• Softball Game “Power” Request

  • [06:16] – [06:55]
  • Listener prays for “some power” during a high school softball game. The result: she hits a foul ball so hard the bat breaks in half.
  • Lighthearted Moment: Hosts tease her about being careful what—specifically—she prays for. “You got to be very clear.” (Co-host/Guest, [06:45])

• Pam’s Cannes Film Festival Story

  • [07:09] – [07:51]
  • Pam recounts receiving an unexpected $2,000 from her uncle after her mother prayed at an open window, enabling her to take an internship at Cannes.
  • Quote: “The next morning, my uncle calls and gives her a check for $2,000…completely out of the blue.” (Pam, [07:42])

• Accidental Bank Deposit During Financial Crisis

  • [08:28] – [09:52]
  • Allison was struggling financially, praying her insurance wouldn't be canceled. She goes to the bank and finds a $5,000 accidental deposit, which allows her to pay her bills in time.
  • Quote: “There was an accidental deposit in my account for $5,000…So, yeah, it went into the negative, but it gave me that time to pay it back.” (Allison, [09:04-09:40])

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4. Serious Crisis: Medical Recovery Through Prayer

• Pam’s Brother and Cancer Recovery
  • [10:02] – [10:45]
  • As a child, her brother’s cancer prognosis was dire. After a minister’s prayer, the next day’s X-ray showed the cancer was “completely gone.”
  • Quote: “And they took an X ray one more time before surgery, and when the X ray came back, it was completely gone.” (Pam, [10:32])
  • Hosts React: “No kidding.” “That's unbelievable. Amazing.” (Bert & Co-host, [10:35-10:36])

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5. Relatable and Light-Hearted Reflections on Prayer

• “Bargains with God”

  • [08:13] – [08:24]
  • The team jokes about negotiative prayers—promises to God made in moments of desperation (like after a night of drinking)—and whether people actually follow through.
  • Quote: “If you get me through this night, I promise I'll never drink again.” (Kelly, [08:15])

• Finding Lost Passports: The St. Anthony Story

  • [10:45] – [11:35]

  • Bert recounts his wife’s mother’s prayer to St. Anthony for lost passports, which leads to a vision of where they are (in a green suitcase), and the passports are found.

  • Quote: “Her mom prays…calls Stacy back…'Have you checked the green suitcase that's in your closet?'…there were the passports.” (Bert, [11:08-11:26])

  • Light banter follows: “And it wasn’t God. It was saints. But somebody was working hard.” (Bert, [11:40])

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• On faith and skepticism:

  • “I’m a skeptic anyways. I don’t pray that often, but that day… we were all praying, and it worked out perfectly.” (Allison, [04:43])

• On specificity in prayer:

  • “You got to be very clear.” (Co-host/Guest, [06:45])

• On gratitude and belief:

  • “God has just really always come through for me. So it didn’t necessarily make me more religious. It just reaffirmed the belief that he definitely has my back.” (Pam, [07:59])

• Hosts’ self-aware humor:

  • “We listen to the show back sometimes and say the exact same thing.” (Bert, [06:09])
  • “Does this sound like something that the fish would be doing this morning?” (Bert, [06:55]) (referring to a religious station)
  • “At VRBO, we understand that even the best of plans sometimes need a little support. So we plan for the plot twists.” (VRBO ad, [11:44]) (Ad skipped as per request, but showcases tonal break between content and commercial)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• [02:13] – Initial news story on prayer stopping an assault
• [04:15] – Beach wedding weather miracle (Allison)
• [06:16] – Softball bat “power” prayer
• [07:09] – Cannes Film Festival funding miracle (Pam)
• [08:28] – Accidental $5,000 bank deposit (Allison)
• [10:02] – Cancer recovery story (Pam)
• [10:45] – St. Anthony and lost passports (Bert & team)

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Tone and Language

The Bert Show keeps things conversational, authentic, and humorous—even while exploring deeply personal and occasionally miraculous stories. Listeners’ raw sincerity is met with light commentary, skepticism, and empathy from the hosts, creating a welcoming environment for believers and doubters alike.

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Summary Takeaway

This episode explores “prayer in crisis” from a variety of angles—lucky breaks, family emergencies, moments of desperation, and the inexplicable. Through caller stories and candid studio banter, the episode stays true to The Bert Show’s signature: real, relatable, and funny, with heart. If you’re looking for an honest (and sometimes skeptical) conversation on faith, hope, and the strange and sudden ways life’s problems sometimes resolve, this one’s for you.

Transcript

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[Bert]

Melissa told a story this morning in the news that I started to focus on. I don't know that I got all the details on it, but I think I want to ask a question based on a story that's coming out of Austell today.

[Kelly]

That's right. A woman in Austell says a man stopped his assault on her after she began to pray out loud. The man apparently broke into her house, hit her head against a bathroom sink, was pushing her head into the toilet. And then she says he stopped when she started talking about Jesus name and prayed for him to stop. And he was eventually arrested for kidnapping, an assault, but he stopped as soon as she brought up religion.

[Bert]

This is what I wanted to ask you guys today. 404-741. Q100. Is there anybody listening right now that had their prayer to God instantly, Instantly answered. Not one where the whole church prayed for you. And then something really good happened three weeks later or four weeks later in her case. She's getting the crap beat out of her. It doesn't look good at all. It's horrible. And she's probably doing what a lot of us would do in that situation is, please, God, get me out of this. Right? So she starts praying, and then she verbalizes it, and instantly God answers her prayer. So that's what I'm looking for with this count.

[Caller/Listener]

Like, if you're driving to work going, please, God, I need something because they're gonna cut off the electricity at my house. Please, God, help me do something. You pull into the gas station, buy one scratch off ticket, win 500 bucks.

[Bert]

Absolutely. Same situation, but you call Q100 at 7:15 bucks, and you win the thousand bucks. Like, you pray like it's 7:14. You're like, you start dialing, God, please let me win this thousand dollars. I need it so badly. My kids need it so badly. And sure enough, you get through within 60 seconds and you win the thousand.

[Caller/Listener]

But it's got to be a legitimate prayer, because don't you. Don't they always, like, don't call up and go, well, I was driving to work this morning, and I was running late, and I said, please, God, don't let there be any more red lights.

[Isis]

And there weren't.

[Caller/Listener]

Like, it's got to be something impactful, you know what I mean?

[Bert]

Something really, really, really significant. Like I'm thinking like, somebody's on their deathbed or something. And you pray to God, please, not now, not now, not now. And then all of a sudden, their vitals start to go up, right? You know, something like that. Impactful. Good morning, Kelly. You're on Q100.

[Isis]

Hi.

[Allison]

I had an interesting story.

[Isis]

It's not like death or life or

[Allison]

anything, but I was getting married last

[Isis]

May, and it was a beach wedding in Florida.

[Allison]

It was storming the entire day. I mean, raining, dark clouds, just rain, rain, rain, rain. And I knew I was gonna have

[Isis]

to either cancel it or put it inside. And then basically the wedding was at 6pm, 5:30. All the clouds disappeared and the sun came out. It was amazing.

[Allison]

It was like it was meant to be.

[Isis]

And I'm a skeptic anyways. I don't pray that often. But that day, everyone, my family, my friends and me, we were all praying, and it worked out perfectly.

[Bert]

And you get, like, it instantly turned around.

[Co-host/Guest]

Did it start raining after your ceremony? Like, it just broke for that time period or it broke for the rest of the day?

[Isis]

It broke for the rest of the day.

[Co-host/Guest]

That's awesome.

[Bert]

Really?

[Isis]

It was amazing. I mean, I have pictures of it looking just black and horrible. And then all my wedding ceremony pictures are beautiful.

[Bert]

Does that make you become more religious after that experience? Like, do you start going to church every Sunday after that?

[Isis]

No, but I am more of a believer.

[Caller/Listener]

You know what it would do for me, like, if I, you know, in her situation, if I just needed good weather for something. Oh, please, let it just be sunny. I got great Braves tickets. Let it be sunny for the game. Cause it's the only game I can go to this year. And then it clears up. I would be mad that I used my one prayer for a frivolous. Like, you know, you go and you have a great time, and it's an awesome game and everything. But then you realize driving home, you're like, seriously? I prayed for that. I mean, go Braves and all. But you know what I really need is, like, five grand for repairs in the house.

[Kelly]

Too late.

[Bert]

At 404-741. Q100. Hey, Allison.

[Allison]

Hey, Bert.

[Bert]

Hey, Allison.

[Isis]

I can't put them on the radio. This is so great.

[Bert]

We listen to the show back sometimes and say the exact same thing.

[Isis]

Oh, yeah.

[Bert]

Okay, so what do you got?

[Isis]

I was playing softball in high school and for my school, and I got up to that, and I was like, please, Lord, just give me some power. And when I swung the bat, the bat, I hit the ball.

[Allison]

It went in.

[Isis]

Foul ball. But the bat broke in half. I looked down, all I saw was when I was holding the other pieces up against the fence, I was like, oh, my God.

[Bert]

Was the second part of that. Did you say it was a foul ball?

[Isis]

Yeah, yeah, it was a foul ball, but it went right out in the outfield.

[Co-host/Guest]

But you had some power, but you didn't have what you asked for. But it was a really got what you asked for. You asked for some power. Gotta be very clear.

[Bert]

Looking for something more impactful, you know? Does this sound like something that the fish would be doing this morning?

[Isis]

Every morning.

[Bert]

Good morning. Q100.

[Isis]

Good morning. Hi, my name is Isis.

[Pam]

How are you?

[Bert]

Good. How are you?

[Pam]

Good.

[Isis]

So I have a really good story. God continuously answers my prayers. But when I was a junior in college, I was awarded an internship to go to the Cannes Film Festival. And it was about $2,000, and I definitely couldn't afford it. And my mom, the night before, she said a prayer, and she has this thing where she likes to pray when it's a big prayer. She prays in the middle of the night in front of an open window to God so that he can really hear her. The next morning, my uncle calls and gives her a check for $2,000 so that he can. I can go to the Cannes Film Festival for an internship completely out of the blue. She never asked for him or never asked it of him. Just had mentioned that I had been awarded this internship. And the next day, he calls and gives us money for it.

[Bert]

That's awesome. Cool.

[Co-host/Guest]

That is so cool.

[Bert]

And again, does that make you more religious after something like that?

[Isis]

Well, throughout my life, God has just really always come through for me. So it didn't necessarily make me more religious. It just reaffirmed the belief that he definitely has my back.

[Bert]

I see. I got you. I think most people, you like when you make those agreements with God and then you get what you want, that's

[Kelly]

usually when you're drunk.

[Bert]

Yeah.

[Kelly]

If you get me through this night, I promise I'll never drink again.

[Bert]

Do most people, you think, follow through on their promise or they're like, well, thanks so much for that, but I'll

[Kelly]

get you next time? Because they were drunk and they Forget.

[Bert]

Good morning. Q100. Hi.

[Allison]

Hello.

[Bert]

Hello.

[Allison]

Hi. This happened several years ago, but obviously I was not managing my money very well and had zero money in my account. And my insurance was about to be canceled. And I was praying God, I was like, oh, you know, I don't know what I'm gonna do to get me out of this. But, you know, don't. I don't need my insurance canceled. You know, I promise I'll start managing my money better. All the things you usually pray for go to the bank to pull out

[Isis]

whatever I had left.

[Allison]

And there was an accidental deposit in my account for $5,000.

[Bert]

Come on. Really?

[Allison]

Yeah, really. Well, obviously, I had to pay it

[Isis]

back, so pulled out.

[Allison]

I pulled out what money I Needed and paid my bills, called the bank. The bank said, you know, it's an accident on our part. It might. Money went into the negative, but it gave me a little time to keep my insurance from being canceled, and then, you know, was able to finally turn it back around. But, yeah, they. They don't know how it happened, but there was an extra $5,000 in my account when I needed to pay my bills.

[Bert]

Now, that's a cool story. That's what I'm looking for right there. It just comes from nowhere. Yeah, it's temporary, too, so it's almost like a test. Are you going to pay this back or not?

[Allison]

Yeah. And it was. And, you know, you knew that that was what was going on, so, yeah, it went into the negative, but it gave me that time to pay it back. I paid and insurance was never cancelled, so that was a definite testament.

[Bert]

Cool story. Thank you for calling.

[Co-host/Guest]

Just buy some time.

[Bert]

Hey, Pam. Good morning.

[Pam]

Good morning.

[Bert]

How are you?

[Pam]

Good.

[Bert]

All right. When was your prayer, I mean, instantly answered?

[Pam]

Well, it wasn't instantly. It was overnight. But when my brother was younger, he was about five years old, he had cancer. And he had had about four or five operations. And the last operation that they were going to do, they didn't think he was going to survive. And mom and dad had the minister come in and pray for him. And the next morning, they had him all marked up for the surgery and everything. And they took an X ray one more time before surgery, and when the X ray came back, it was completely gone.

[Bert]

No kidding.

[Co-host/Guest]

That's unbelievable. Amazing.

[Pam]

He's still alive today.

[Caller/Listener]

You got the name of that minister by any chance? Right.

[Bert]

We could all use it.

[Co-host/Guest]

No kidding.

[Bert]

I relayed that story to you with Stacy's mom and our missing passport. You know, when we were going on our honeymoon, we were going to go to Greece on our honeymoon. And the night before we were about to take off, Stacy realized we couldn't find our passports anywhere. So it was gone. We were going to stay somewhere in the States or whatever. And she tells her mom about it, and her mom prays to I always forget this.

[Co-host/Guest]

St. Anthony.

[Bert]

St. Anthony is the right saint of lost things or whatever. And her mom prays and then has a vision and calls Stacy back. And the words were literally this. Have you checked the green suitcase that's in your closet? And Stacy said, no, I haven't. She goes into the closet, sure enough, goes into the green suitcase, and there were the passports. Wow. Sitting right there, man.

[Co-host/Guest]

That's pretty cool.

[Bert]

I mean, it wasn't instant. It was close, though.

[Co-host/Guest]

And it wasn't God. It was saints.

[Bert]

And it was saints. But somebody was working hard. Listen, it's the virt show.

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[Isis]

Com.