My prayers are powerful and strong and bring about full healing in my life.

A hospital car park at ten past eight is where a good deal of praying actually happens.

Not in a service — in a car, before turning the key, saying the same short thing again.

Whatever else it does, it does something observable. It gives fear somewhere to go that isn't the person inside the building. It slows a body down. It puts you in the position of having asked, which is not the same as having only worried.

People have prayed like that for thousands of years without knowing any outcome in advance. Not knowing isn't a weakness in the practice. Not knowing is the practice.