Both are usually appeals for things you ask for selfishly or ought to take care of yourself. The Lottery costs you a around 70 cents for each dollar of return on the long term, and it has only materialistic benefits. Prayer doesn t cost you anything, the results are based on the request s agreement with the perfect divine plan, and it can have eternal benefits. The Lottery will break your bank account, but investing in prayer builds your heavenly account -- if you have accepted the deposit that s waiting to take you out of the red.
A lottery ticket has no inter -mediator to alter the outcome of the investment . The investment price for a prayer is sincerity , the expenditure of sincerity calls for ongoing movement in sincerity . The reward of prayer is Eternal and not always temporal . Prayer then is much better deal than winning the lottery since sincere prayers can conjoin with faithfulness and lead to eternal reward .
They are people who "see" things that the rest of us don't, and tell about it. They can be things in the future, or things at a distance. A true prophet will turn out to be accurate 98.9% of the time. A true prophet will also be quite aggravating to others, because obviously what they are saying is not what other people are seeing and believing. So, they suffer a lot. Prophets are unconscious while in vision, and they don't breathe. Sometimes they have great strength while in vision. Sometimes their strength leaves them completely. (I'm going by the biblical accounts.) This, too, can be quite disconcerting. Prophets really have no control over when and how or even whether they receive their revelations. Their only choice in the process is, whether or not they're going to tell you what they've seen. For the pros and cons of it, google Ellen G. White and see what people say. She never called herself a prophet, but by definition she seems to be a rather recent example of the phenomenon.
Both are wishful thinking, but only one has an actual proven statistical possibly (even if extremely slight) of coming true.
Edit: The two that pop up on my computer are "How To Win The Lottery - Professor Discusses 1 Tip To Match 5 Winning Numbers" and "Pick 5 + 1 System - Never Before Seen System For Pick 5+1".