Evaluation of the Purpose of Prayer

Evaluation of the Purpose of Prayer

Prayer has a great purpose for many different reasons. For one reason

it shows the way in which Christians respect and honour God. Even if

God doesn’t answer, surly God can still hear you and that is all that

matters. He would honour your respect to persevere in prayer even

though there was no verbal response. Just because there in no verbal

response, doesn’t mean there is no physical response. Say for example

you were praying your mother would survive an operation and she did.

Although God did not answer verbally he still answered physically and

that is even better. When you are talking to someone and they don’t

answer your instant reaction is not “that was pointless” because you

know that some part of what you have said has still been acknowledged

by that person. Even if God doesn’t hear, there are still all the

great effects that prayer has on a Christian:

· It allows Christians to show and declare their faith.

· It strengthens and helps a Christian in their daily life.

· It creates feelings of praise, love, wonder, repentance and

commitment within the Christian.

· It can be expressed in many different ways both as a community and

as an individual.

Prayer is pointless because surly if God doesn’t answer, there is no

God there. Prayer is similar to having a conversation but you don’t

see people having conversations with brick walls. Is there a point to

having a conversation with something that doesn’t answer back? When

you say to someone how are you? You don’t expect to hear an answer of

the wind whistling through the trees. Prayer is a waste of time

because instead of spending time praying, you could be doing something

to help the community or even saving the world, by becoming someone

like James Bond, saving starving children, using your brain for the

reason that God really put us on this planet, if there is a real God.

All these things could make a difference but what use is it praying to