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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have always used prayer as more of a meditative device. God doesn't grant wishes IMO (and experience). However, praying to God does allow me to look inward and to focus and to gain strength to get through some rough times. [/quote]

If you're not asking for God to grant wishes, what are you asking from him?  Why not meditate, instead of praying to someone who you don't think is listening? or is listening, but not dong anything?[/quote]

I am asking him to give me the strength to get through whatever it is I am experiencing. He is not a genie. I do think he is listening. I just don't think his answer is to grant whatever it is I think I need in life. So for example, when my mom was dying I did pray for him to cure her. it did not happen. What prayer did was give me someone to turn to when everything was so horrible. It gave me strength to get through it all. It provided me with peace.  [/quote]

Op  here.  This is what I don't understand.  God apparently could have cured her but simply chose not to.

I'm sorry for your loss, but glad you found peace.[/quote]

But as you can see, there are many different views on what god can/can't or will/won't do, or even if there is a god out there decided which prayers to answer and which not to answer.  What we do know, from our limited human experience, is that some of the things we pray for happen and some don't.  It seems pretty random.  Maybe it is.

Prayer, however, does seem to have some calming effect on the person praying, as long as they don't expect to have their prayer answered[/quote]

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