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Originally Posted by Drolefille
Bumping this for a question that frequently bothers me:
Prayer - the type where you pray FOR someone/something. Does it work? If so do people who have people to pray for them deserve better outcomes? If not then why do it?
I always got caught in a recursive "can't just pray for one person why not everyone in the whole world well what's the point then" thought process.
/overthinks things, I know
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I've never been comfortable with prayer that asks for something specific. My prayers tend to be for assistance in accepting God's will or simply putting a problem in His hands. For example, I was struggling with finding funds for my kids' Christmas presents and I was really stressing over it. One night, I thought to myself "I am just putting this in God's hands". The next day, we got a surprise bonus at work and my dad sent me my own Christmas gift, an A_mazon gift certificate. Between the two, I was able to get each of my kids the gift they really wanted. It's like my own personal worry jar. When I let go and stop worrying, things work out as they should. Would I have received those two things if I hadn't put it in God's hands? Yes. But I would have kept worrying until the next day.