Is Prayer for Real - Does It Work? - Garner Ted Armstrong - November 1973

Garner Ted Armstrong

Why should you pray? Does it really do any good? Is there a personal God who actually hears and answers prayer? Is there a special tone of voice you must use to be heard? And why is conversing with God such a bore to the contemporary world? What about it? Can you really "get through" to God today? THERE is no quicker way to put people to sleep than to say: "Shall we pray?" Remember the last Democratic convention? The chairman was beating the gavel half to death. I mean he was about to destroy the stand. He was trying to say: "Please be quiet everybody. This minister is about to talk to God." But what he really said was: "It's time for prayer. We're going to have 'Reverend' so-and-so...." - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library