Protestantism

» pink101 - Power of Prayer

In response to Being So Superior posted by HeadZenCards:
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I don't think the power of prayer works that way.
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Instead, it's all within the mind of the person who prays.
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There's that old story about prayer being liike a man in a boat who throws an anchor out towards shore. Once the anchor sinks to the bottom of the water, he pulls on the rope until the anchor is, once again, in the boat. Then he throws the anchor toward shore again and repeats his actions. Finally, he is able to step out of the boat onto the shore.
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Did he pull the shore to the boat or did he pull the boat to the shore?
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Prayer is a form of interaction between a supplicant and the one to whom he or she prays. There is power in that action that cannot be denied.
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Are you trying to say that you make no prayers?
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I think of Sir Walter Scott:
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Breathes there a man with soul so dead,
Who never to himself hath said,
This is my own, my native land!
Whose heart hath ne'er within him burn'd
As home his footsteps he hath turn'd,
From wandering on a foreign strand!
If such there breathe, go, mark him well;
For him no Minstrel raptures swell;
High though his titles, proud his name,
Boundless his wealth as wish can claim;
Despite those titles, power, and pelf,
The wretch, concentrated all in self,
Living shall forfeit fair renown,
And, doubly dying, shall go down
To the vile dust from whence he sprung,
Unwept, unhonour'd, and unsung.
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I think the same could be said about a person who never prays.
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But, what do I know?
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-- posted by pink101