How do Christians normally expect God to answer a prayer?

  I asked this of one of my groups the other night.  Answers: with exactly what I prayed, signs, an audible voice, opening/closing doors, in music, symbology, through others.

Wisdom previous illumination or word of God, standard mind of Christ

Evaluating prayer life in terms of what the Bible shows

What does John 14:13-14 truly mean?

Luke 22

Abiding in the Father, abiding in the son, our prayers