Also, what's the deal with actually telling you that they're praying for you? Apparently it only 'works' if the subject of the prayer knows about it. I'd be far more impressed if someone prayed without my knowledge, recording the date, time and content of the prayer, and then I experienced whatever effect they were going for.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'