What would happen if everybody in the world who read this, all at the same time, PRAYED for WORLD PEACE?

Question

Do you believe in the power of prayer? Are the results multiplied when there are many people, all with the same intention, praying at once? Thank you for your responses.
*praying for world peace now*

Answer 1

Lets do it!
May I suggets:

The Peace Prayer

LORD,

Make me an instrument of your PEACE,
Where there is hatred, let me sow LOVE,
Where there is injury, PARDON,
Where there is doubt, FAITH,
Where there is despair, HOPE
Where there is darkness, LIGHT
And where there is sadness, JOY

AMEN

Answer 2

I have been praying for world peace for a long time but as long as we have the leaders in the countries that we have there will never be peace it seems god is choosing to let us make our own destiny and some of us will get caught is the aftermath but just stay strong hold onto your faith and when man has destroyed the earth we will all join in the ever after and live in peace finally. I am praying now because you asked for it and it never hurts

Answer 3

The study published in Scientific American, shows it is necessary for those being prayed for to know about it, for it to have any effect. In the case of the heart patients it actually had the opposite effect intended. I think you would need to do a lot more publicity than a Yahoo Groups message board to have any effect on world peace and who knows you may even make it worse.

The three-year Study of the Therapeutic Effects of Intercessory Prayer (STEP), published in the April 4 American Heart Journal, was the largest-ever attempt to apply scientific methods to measure the influence of prayer on the well-being of another. It examined 1,800 patients undergoing heart-bypass surgery. On the eve of the operations, church groups began two weeks of praying for one set of patients. Each recipient had a praying contingent of about 70, none of whom knew the patient personally. The study found no differences in survival or complication rates compared with those who did not receive prayers. The only statistically significant blip appeared in a subgroup of patients who were prayed for and knew it. They experienced a higher rate of postsurgical heart arrhythmias (59 versus 52 percent of unaware subjects).

The research team--a psychologist, clergy and doctors from six institutions, including Harvard Medical School and the Mayo Clinic--speculated that nerves might have been to blame. "We know that high levels of adrenaline from the anxiety response can make fibrillation worse," said Charles Bethea, a physician at Integris Baptist Heart Hospital, a study site in Oklahoma City, in an April press conference. "The patient might think, 'Am I so sick that they have to call in the prayer team?'" Dean Marek, chief chaplain at the Mayo Clinic, saw the problem as a possible flaw in the study design: "The sense of community was not there. You could call it impersonal prayer rather than intercessory prayer."
Stopping short of suggesting that the healing power of prayers by friends and family might reside in the personal connections rather than in the prayers, the authors stated that they have no plans for a follow-up study. This one, sponsored largely by the John Templeton Foundation, cost $2.4 million.

Answer 4

I believe in the power of pray, but the whole world is not on Q/A and many do not want peace,many want power,There can only be peace when Jesus puts down Satan.

Answer 5

It's just absolutely disgusting. It made me cry because it's just SO wrong. Some parts of Pakistan as a state.... isn't the best place to look at as an Islamic example because some people end up mixing culture and forget Islamic principles because the're uneducated. The beloved Prophet PBUH established women's rights! Pre-Islamic Arabia used to bury girls alive and Islam put a stop to it! It's FORBIDDEN and I hope by Allah that he destroys those people in Hellfire and in the grave. Those people committed two major sins. They comitted murder and refused to allow the girl the right to choose their spouses which is a fundamental right for Muslim women. It just breaks my heart when I see such backward things even it wasn't in a supposed Islamic community no one deserves this. This is not Islam its culture.

Answer 6

Numerous studies have shown that prayer accomplishes nothing, no matter how many people prayed or who they were (president, pope, farmer, no one).

I've got an idea. Why not instead of praying for things, we go out and make them happen? Instead of praying for Katrina victems, Bush could have helped them instead. Instead of praying for world peace, you could find some way to go out and make the world a better place.

Answer 7

World Peace is in the hand of God, and will come about in his time not hours.

There will be great darkness before the light of Gods peace to the world!

Answer 8

Nothing would happen because it is not God's will that has been prophesied.God does want us to live in peace but the only way for the entire earth to be ruled in peace is through Jesus after the fulfillment's of scripture have taken place.

Answer 9

nothing would happen. you know, I seriously believe The prayer is your actions so all of YOU have to be the change you want to see in the world. not pray for someone else to do it! actions speak louder than words do they not?

Answer 10

There is no factual evidence to support the claim that praying does anything whatsoever. There have been numerous independent experiments, and WITHOUT EXCEPTION, they have all shown the same thing. Prayer accomplishes absolutely nothing.

We now return you to your delusion.