Study on prayer efficacy?

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Our prayer should always first and foremost to do the will of God in all things. We still can ask for things, but to do Gods will is first and foremost even if it means we have to suffer or to accept God has allowed some evil to penetrate our lives. Note: God is not the cause of evil but allows evil to happen to us so better good may come of it.Note 2: I didnt read the article, maybe the people lacked faith.
 
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True personally I’m willing to believe if a higher dimensional being who’s the uncaused cause does exist we shouldn’t even try to define them because it’s hilariously offensive. Nor should we be anything but massively grateful.
 
This is true it’s actually a pretty wild journey either way. If it ends up he exists to know a being of such love exists is glorious and such an incredible gift and if not the idea of God alone is worth having if merely to make our lives worth something instead of nothing.
 
If he does exist it’s pretty incredible. And such an incredible gift a being so far above ours granted us life.
 
Jesus himself told us to ask for things in his name. I would say most prayers people make are petitionary in nature. I don’t see this as a “wrong” reason for prayer. Other than giving thanks and praise, which are of course prime, the only other reason I can see for prayer is petitionary. The Pope does it. Everyone does it. People are quick to bring out miraculous answered medical prayer anecdotes, but are quick to debunk and actual study of prayer efficacy. You can’t have it both ways.
 
About 20 years ago I read and heard about another study which said they went into a hospital and selected several seriously ill patients and then divided them into two groups. One group was prayed for collectively by several people; the other group was not prayed for at all. The study concluded that overall, the group that was prayed for did much better than the group that was not prayed for.

I wouldn’t pay much attention to this ‘new’ study. Probably in a few years another ‘study’ will reach a different conclusion, and then a few years later there may be a new ‘study’, and on and on. I would pay more attention to Jesus, who because prayer is important and effective, always went off on his own to pray.
 
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So any ideas why the prayer didn’t work?
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There’s a difference between praying “God, if it’s your will, please heal my grandma” and praying “OK – this is trial number 572A, breast cancer and the prayers of ten Catholics and ten Presbyterians: go!”

After all, don’t they remember Jesus’ response to this sort of thing?
Jesus answered him, “Again it is written, ‘You shall not put the Lord, your God, to the test.’”
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