Prayer.

[Theland]

Do you ever derive comfort from prayer, or feel you have received guidance?

[MallyJ]

No I don't pray anymore but never got comfort or guidance from praying when I did....I was brought up in the christian faith but decided I had no belief in my mid teens and nothing has changed since that time.

[diddlydo]

No and no.

[ummmm]

No, never.

[woofgang]

difficult one to answer really....guidance and comfort don't form part of how I see my relationship with god

[SparklyKid]

Ask those who prayed for Ken Bigley !

[SparklyKid]

How on earth can you get guidance from a fictitious sky fairy.

[Mamyalynne]

I have prayed for those in distress when there's nothing I can do practically.

Futile perhaps but sincerely offered.

[Old_Geezer]

I have done. It's a rare event, saved for bigger life issues. I can not know if there are spiritual beings out there who can help or not, but no reason not to ask anyway. If there's not, no harm is done, no foul. If there is then maybe things turned around quicker, or at least concluded quicker. One can not both pray and not pray (at least in the same universe) to compare results, but it always feels better to try all avenues and feel one hasn't neglected any when feeling in need of change/help that badly.

[Patsy33]

Same as Mamy..

[Ringlet]

No to both questions

[mibn2cweus]

I receive guidance from cogitating and derive comfort from knowing I've done my best.

[jim360]

Personally, no. Closest I can think of is when someone told me that they were going to pray for me, and I decided to interpret that as "I care for you and am holding you in my thoughts at this difficult time" and felt rather touched.

[GymLadTim]

I would not say I'm religious but last week I went to a Sikh temple with a Sikh friend from Uni 0 I like to learn about different faiths. I sat in the quiet thinking about all of the things I have to be grateful for and that was lovely.

[42bfaithful]

I have often felt my prayers answered, but first I had to learn that there are proper ways to pray. Because we are addressing the sovereign of the universe, we recognize that we must have the utmost respect by wanting to please Him. Jesus taught us how to pray. At Matthew 6:9-13, we see that God's name is a priority. His name is Jehovah. (Psalm 83:18). Next we show that we look forward to His kingdom. Then of course we talk to Him about our concerns and needs in life. God will bless prayers that are in harmony with His will. He calls Himself the hearer of prayer at Psalm 65:2.

[hereIam]

When I was about 10/11 years old, I was holidaying at Butlins with my family, including my Grandma who loved wrestling. She was waiting for me to join her at the wrestling place and I got lost and I was starting to panic as only a 10 year old can and I decided to pray to God to help me find my way to the building. Immediately I became calm, turned a corner and there the building was. I would never have found it in my panicked state. Did God help me ? At the time I fervently believed so and I've NEVER forgotten it and the calm that swept over me at that time. Maybe I'm wrong not to believe in God any more ..

[nailit]

When we talk to God its called prayer.
When God talks to us, its called paranoid schizophrenia.

That's ^^ the old joke. But I actually have a deeply religious friend who was hospitalised because he thought 'God' was talking to him.
He's been fine since been medicated but remains deeply religious. God just doesn't answer him in the same way now apparenty!

[Khandro]

Without reading any of the above posts - an emphatic, Yes I pray every day.

[nailit]

I cant help but think that the entire thing (praying or believing that god replies) is bordering on mental illness.
Who else talks to an invisable being apart from kids with imaginary friends?

[Theland]

We talk to God in prayer, God talks to us through scripture.
God wants us to change and become more like Christ, so every answered prayer should change us to be more like the Lord and increase our faith.

[retrocop]

//Without reading any of the above posts - an emphatic, Yes I pray every day.//

Good for you Khandro. It does no one any harm. However the applicant should not expect miracles as a result.
'There's many an atheist who finds God in a foxhole when the shot and shell are looking for you.' :-)