Does it do any good to pray...i'm serious does it do any good?

Question

every time I pray nothing seems to happen...

Answer 1

Correct. Prayer is worthless except as a placebo.

Answer 2

Dosn't it seem like prayer is a club and if you don't have the right password you can't get in. I have some great news for you its not. First....all thought is a prayer and the answer is always yes. What?!! This is something great minds have always known. Religion wants you to think that if you use the right name, say the right words then poof your hopes are granted. So if you are born in the wrong part of the world I guess you are just SOL. Lucky for all of us the universe is much more fair than that. What you think is what you are and what you will experience. If you think things don't work for you they won't. If you think that you always get what you want you will. You are part of god and deep down you really want yourself to win. You are perfect and worthy just the way you are and you don't need to jump through hoops to get help. Be the born creator you are and start small. This is the foundation about belief and prayer. Start with parking. Focus on what you want.....great parking always. Pray for it. Go ahead and thank god for the great parking before it happens. Remember god, source, the beginning of it all is not petty and wants you to win. When you get good parking really enjoy it. What you think is what you are and you need to start thinking of yourself as part of everything. You can have many good things in your life but you must make the emotional journey to get them. See yourself as in control because you are. No one person is more worthy of support from god than any other. All you have to do is let it in and you will start to see the power you have always had to be in control of your own life. Be intentional in your thinking and watch the world open up to you.

Answer 3

it can. He always hears u, its just that sometimes the answer is "no". sometimes u hafta wait a looong time.i have proof;

when i was about 5, me & my dad prayed 4 about 6 months 4 me 2 get the white cat & brown dog that i wanted. i eventually even got better than that! when i was 8, my cat got pregnant & had kittens-6 more cats than i prayed 4!!

1 time, my parents went camping w/ some friends, & it was callin 4 rain, so they prayed that He would stop it & He did; across the campground, u could see it raining over there, but where they were it was not raining @ all.

so yes, praying DOES help, & dont let ne 1 tell u diff.

i have other stories but ill save the room 4 other answers, plus i dont like taking up alot of space.

Answer 4

“If I regard iniquity in my heart, the LORD will not hear me” (Psalm 66:18).

There are many wonderful assurances in Scripture that our God is a prayer-answering God, as well as innumerable testimonies throughout history, by multitudes of praying believers, that He has answered prayer, often in amazing ways. On the other hand, there are many, many prayers that have not been answered, and the question is: “Why?”

In some cases, of course, it is just that the prayer has not been answered yet, in which case the believer needs merely to continue in prayer, for “men ought always to pray, and not to faint” (Luke 18:1). In some cases, it may be that the request was not in God’s perfect will, for, “if we ask any thing according to His will, He heareth us” (I John 5:14). We should always pray as did Christ Himself: “Not my will, but thine, be done” (Luke 22:42), for His will is always best.

There are times, however, when God would desire to answer our prayers, but is hindered by our own actions and attitudes, since He will only act in consistency with His own holy nature and loving wisdom. Some are listed below:

1. Sin in the heart: “If I regard iniquity in my heart, the LORD will not hear me” (Psalm 66:18).
2. Unforgiving attitude: “When ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any” (Mark 11:25).
3. Carnal motive: “Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts” (James 4:3).
4. Selfish family relations: “Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered” (I Peter 3:7).
5. Unbelief: “But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. . . . For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord” (James 1:6,7)

Answer 5

Maybe you're just not doing right. Did you remember to put on your magic underwear and do the secret dance?

Actually, a while back, one of my cousins started hanging out with a new friend. My aunt eventually discovered that the father of this new friend was a drug dealer. So, my aunt started praying that God would keep this drug-dealer guy away from my cousin. A week later, the guy dropped dead. Ever since that, my family has always sort of teased my aunt about praying people to death. (But we don't tease her too much, because we don't want her to start praying about us).

Answer 6

It works well for me, but then I do not pray for things. I pray for help doing what I need to do. He always helps me.

I pray and thank Him for the most part.

Answer 7

I guess prayer can be helpful in focusing your mind on what needs to be taken care of in life.

But who you pray to doesn't really matter.

If you ask a Christian how God answers prayer, they will tell you that he always answers with "Yes, No or wait".

The problem with this theory is that all prayers, no matter who they are directed too will eventually be answered that way.

If I pray to my cat, and ask him to fix the rattling in my car's engine. The first answer may be "wait" I will then have to practice some patience and wait for the cat's divine answer. Eventually my car might break down, so I guess the cat's answer was "no", or the rattling might go away and then the answer was "yes". Thank goodness for my blessed cat, for he answers prayers in the same way that Gods answer them.

Answer 8

None at all as far as anyone has ever been able to tell. A recent study showed that cardiac patients who knew others were praying for them actually did worse.

If there were any benefit to prayer at all, it would be measurable and testable.

Answer 9

Don't give up. God is real, and he hears you. And things may be happening despite the fact that they don't seem to be. I can tell you it's seemed that way to me at times, but later I realized God had answered my prayers of the course of days, months or even years.

Answer 10

It comforts the person who's praying. Google around for "placebo effect."

Answer 11

Even if you don't have faith in a higher power... there is some scientific backing to the power of positive thought... so if you pray correctly (in a positive manner) yes.. it does do good.


P.S. I went to college for Psychology.. so I suppose that's where my "positive thought" mentality comes from.. as for religion I'm a Deist... so I believe we have to answer our own prayers.