Prayer must be a pointless activity because God doesn't answer

• 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 your bed side cabinet that “Liverpool won’t lose their football match tomorrow?”

Although I wrote this meaningful piece of writing for this statement, I actually think that prayer is very important even if there is no response. The purpose of prayer is to allow people to think that there is someone in heaven to look after Granny, when she is dying in hospital. It is all psychological; God is the holder of all the keys. Pulling the strings on who enters and exits, so why should we not be allowed to pray, if it makes us feel better? Nothing is ever pointless in life because there is usually something that occurs as a consequence of it. Understanding what? And why? Is something far from our control and prayer is something that keeps it under our control being able to connect physically with God and from this point you can see, it is not his verbal answer’s it is his physical actions that really make the difference.