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Consciousness and Prayer Part 7
July 5, 2025
At first blush, the words “prayer changes things” make us think that prayer causes things to happen. While change is often the result of prayer, it does not manipulate circumstance or wave a magic wand. Prayer does not necessarily change things to be how we want them to be. If that were true, everyone would pray for what they want and receive it. People could pray to win the lottery, to find their true love the next day, and be healed at once from all sorts of maladies, and they would get their wish just because they prayed for it.