Did God do it? Or was it pointless?

Prayer has 3 solutions, say if you prayed for money;

A) You could receive money in some form, lottery ticket, find a note on the street etc within the next few days. And you're happy the prayer came true and God indeed responded, but this could easily just be a coincidence as such a thing is not completely unlikely, especially if you are openly looking for it..

B) You could receive money in some form in the future, which could happen anyway without intervention and conclude that God's delay in answering your prayer was all in his plan to give it you in due course.

C) You may never have your prayer answered, and simply conclude again it's all in God's plan that he wants you to find another way. Teaching you that things are not as simple as you think, and you must work and earn your money instead.

Whatever the results of praying, it will strengthen your faith. You will have the same result from praying to say, the sun or an inanimate object.

Testing the effectiveness of prayer concludes it's only as effective as a placebo.

Here's what I believe, for what it's worth. Prayer isn't so much about lining God's will up with ours as it is with lining our will up with his. When we pray, God's answer is always "yes," but not always to the specific request we made--sometimes, he's responding to the resolution that we should have asked for, and that will ultimately be the best outcome from the broadest perspective. So if when we pray we're open to what God's will in the situation already is, the value of the prayer for us is that we will be neither shocked nor disappointed by the outcome.

First you must accept that we have different destiny. Once you accept your faith become stronger. When you pray, just wait because god have all the reason for everything.Why he will not give u want the things u want right now because maybe it will be better for u to recieve tommorow.

I am a muslim and I always pray fivetimes a day. I ask a alot of things in this worl. But what I always better things in the hearafter.

Assalamu Alaykum(Peace be with you

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You don't know. You can only assume and use your own logic.

I agree with the second answer though. The only way you can find answers is if you look for them yourself. That's how you grow as an individual, by thinking for yourself. I don't think there is a God out there answering prayers. If, so there wouldn't be so much suffering.

What you're leaning towards is called FAITH. In my opinion, God answers all prayers, in His time and in His way.

I am atheists who have aspirations. Most of them are met and I did not pray for it.

I worked for it.

What is pointless is no faith.