What is the difference between the unbeliever and the believer? The unbeliever wishes and the believer prays.

For many skeptics, prayers are only superstitions and traditions that cannot influence the course of their lives. For them, they are nothing more than a psychological experience that relieves the mind and helps man to face the challenges of existence.

The Romans of the early Christian era believed in several gods, which were for them a good luck charm, but for which they had no particular expectation.
The Greeks, even more skeptical, ridiculed prayer. Their dramatic authors mixed stupid, even obscene, religious invocations with their theatre scenes in order to amuse the spectators.
For the Epicureans, all prayer was vain, the world being totally delivered to chance.

For atheists, there is no need to pray because there is no one to collect the requests.

Only the Jews persisted in claiming that a supreme and good God ruled the world, listened to their demands and even answered them.

Today’s “abundant society” seems, at first glance, to detract from its appeal to prayer, for not only are most goods available, but also all the resources society needs to heal and solve problems. The Christian can find himself relying on God in a global way and to attach himself strongly to the means that modernity has made available to him. For such believers, faith is not a lived reality, but a vague religious feeling, a simple mental acceptance of Christian doctrine

In general, we see that everything seems done so that we no longer have the time, or even the strength, to pray. Satan excels in turning us away from prayer and pushing us to discouragement and unbelief.

Few people, including many Christians, are convinced of the necessity of prayer and, above all, of its effectiveness. All the benefits and promises that prayer offers seem inaccessible to them. To provide for their needs, they rely more on themselves or their families and friends.

James 5:13-15 “13Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms. 14Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord: 15And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him”.KJB

How many children of God go through life here as orphans, as if their Heavenly Father did not care for them or was unable to care for their needs ? Many Christians suffer from a lack of victories and joy, simply because they do not dare, or do not know how to pray !

Colossians 4:2 “2Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving” KJV