How do you respond when someone says they will pray for you?

If you want the prayers, you simply say “Thank you for praying for me.” If you don’t care about the prayers, it depends how kind you want to be to the person who is praying. Some options: “Prayer isn’t meaningful to me, but thank you for keeping me in your thoughts.”

How do you respond to someone’s prayer request?

React and respond with empathy, just as if that person was standing before you. Acknowledge their pain or concern. Talking with someone in person, you can quickly see and respond appropriately.

What does praying for you mean?

It means they believe in God and will petition God through prayer to intercede on your behalf. This is commonly done in a situation where they cannot take action themselves to affect the situation.

Where in the Bible does it say to pray for one another?

James 5:16 16 Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.

Can you pray if you are an atheist?

For the atheist, such as myself, there is no great chance that God is listening or will respond, but that does not matter. One does not need to believe in God for prayer to work. Though Harris does not realise it, the same is true of prayer. It is possible to be a praying atheist, a “pray-theist” if you like.

How do you respond when someone asks you to pray for them?

When people are trying to be kind, I accept “I’ll pray for you” the same way I accept “I’m thinking of you” or other expressions of sympathy. A simple “thank you for thinking of me” is often the best response.

What does it mean when a religious person says I’ll Pray?

The religious person who offers these prayers may claim that they are well-intentioned, but they are actually more about them than you. When someone says “I’ll pray for you” because you are an atheist, what they really mean is: “I plan to pray about you and I’m doing it for the support of my own religious beliefs.”

What does it feel like to pray to one person?

Praying to one person is like making her/him close to your heart, within a reach that a brotherly and sisterly kind of prayer, I always pray to someone who use to be my friend here in myLot that makes me feel joy and feeling relieve praying for his safety and his family.

What does the Bible say about praying for others?

As an example, Paul is specific in this request: “Pray also for me, that whenever I speak, words may be given me so that I will fearlessly make known the mystery of the gospel,” (Ephesians 6:19 NIV11) Follow up. After you have prayed for them (assuming you agree to do so), let them know.