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Prayer does work. Death does not debunk prayer or reveal it as ineffective. That the Christians were slaughtered while at prayer does not mean that their prayers were in vain. Far from it. Heaven is the eternal prayer. It is the completion and fulfillment of every prayer uttered on Earth. The efficacy of prayer is not called into question when a Christian goes from Earthly prayer to the Heavenly, perfected form. Exactly the opposite is true. I'm betting that if we could peek into the next world, we would not see that the prayers of these murdered Christians have gone to waste. Rather, we would see that they have all been finally and eternally and gloriously answered.
We were never told, and no Christian believes, that praying will forever inoculate us from suffering and death. Even if we pray all our lives we will still die, just as we will still die even if we eat well and live a healthy lifestyle. But prayer is not meant to save us from death anyway. It is meant to bring us closer to God. In that sense, all prayer "works" and all prayers are answered.
Of course, the skeptic demands more than that. He demands proof that God has listened to a specific prayer and answered it in a demonstrative fashion, by causing some miraculous thing to happen or preventing some horrific evil from happening. "Show me that prayer works," he scoffs, "and then I'll believe it."
He's lying. He will not believe it, even when he's shown.— Matt Walsh
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