A Praying Life: Connecting with God in a Distracting World

by Paul E. Miller

But what really doesn’t work is us. For starters, we only prayed after we’d mucked up the situation. Then, by praying at the end, we didn’t allow any time for God to weave his story. Secretly we want him to answer our prayer by doing a magic trick on the other person’s soul. Our “prayer doesn’t work” often means “you didn’t do my will, in my way, in my time.”