God and prayers for others

[Dale (evolutionary providentialist)]

This addresses your question, I think:

Does Prayer Work?

“Does prayer work?” is directly analogous to asking “Does talking to your father work?” That would depend on almost innumerably many factors, by far and away the most important being your relationship with him, or ‘connection’ to him, as the podcast that Hillary @HRankin so appropriately linked said.   It also appropriately mentioned the petitioner’s ‘age’: …sort of like approaching God the way a little pre-school child might a parent. It’s not that the pre-school child needs to inform the p…