Someone said to me, ‘prayer does not work’!   I myself have been a ‘doubter’.   However, to doubt is to lose hope.  Hope is everything.   It is evil that squashes hope.   For if there is no hope, there is no heaven.   There is most certainly a heaven!   As sure as you and I live and breathe, there is a heaven and Our God watches over us.   We however,  do not return the favor.   So important is prayer that it is found in the book of James.  In the Epistle of James, Chapter 1  verses 16-22 He talks of, ‘Response to God’s Gift’.

16) Make no mistake about this, my dear brothers. 17) Every worthwhile gift, every genuine  benefit comes from above, descending from the Father of the heavenly luminaries, who cannot change and who is never shadowed over. 18) He wills to bring us to birth with a word spoken in truth so that we may be a kind of first fruits of his creatures. 19)  Keep this in mind, dear brothers.   Let every man be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger; 20) for a man’s anger does not fulfill God’s justice.  21) Strip away all that is filthy, every vicious excess.   Humbly welcome the word that has taken root in you, with its power to save you.   22) Act on this word.   If all you do is listen to it, you are decieving yourselves.