When you prayed did it ever work?

[Drich]

That being the case, what's with all the praying for the sick that we get so often, most recently here on this very board? What's that all about?

Again petition is not a sin. We do it because it makes us and other feel better, and it some times works. Even so, it's still not actual prayer. Prayer is not meant to change God's mind, it is meant to change ours. In that we are to seek and accept God's will be done.

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[...]The problem with what most of you understand to be prayer isn't prayer at all.

That was my entire point. What qualifies as true prayer?

Christ gives an example of what a prayer is in beginning of Luke 11.