Prayer :Does it work?

If they do, they are counterfeits, or the accounts are, from the adversary:

…he is a liar and the father of lies.

 
I like @gbob’s analogy about lottery tickets which he relates in My Turkish translator experience

It was like, in all the world, only one ticket was sold to this drawing. It was sold to three people who shared the cost, no other tickets were sold, and they won the Powerball. Someone might think the game was rigged if that happened in real life.

 
Then, of course, there is the sequence in Maggie’s account that I love and that I have mentioned several times before, a series of five, in the sequence of her requests, and in 48 hours!
 

The evidence of God’s sovereign and interventionist reign over the events in my life is plentiful, but a favorite and surprising answer to a prayer is what I have called Request and articulate reply.

 
Unfortunately, accounts like these are not compelling to the resolute unbeliever.