Imagine you wanted a promotion at work. So you prayed to a milk jug for two weeks and then applied for the promotion. If the promotion came through, would you say it happened because the milk jug answered your prayer? Most people would not.
Most Christians say that God answers prayer in three ways: yes, no, or wait. If God says yes, you get whatever you were praying for. If God says no, then you don't. If God says "wait," then you keep praying for your desired outcome, knowing that God's timing is different from your own.
But the problem is, that covers every possible outcome. Things either happen now, later, or not at all. There's no other possibility. How can you be confident that prayer works if there's, literally, no scenario that could prove it to be false?
Finding God in the Waves by Mike McHargue, p 50
I was just thinking this the other day!
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