THAT BE Prayer and the Powers Session 12 Those who pray do so not because they believe certain intellectual propositions about prayer's value, but because the struggle to be human in the face of suprahuman Powers requires it. The act of praying is itself one of the indispensable means by which we engage the Powers. ETP - Chapter 16 Discipline of the Spirit is required, Wink says, for change, and perhapsthe most important discipline is prayer. Prayer is not a private act, but a battlefield.
Prayer is never a private act.
It may be the interior battlefield where the decisive victory is first won, before engagement in the outer world is even attempted. The spiritual is at the core of everything, and is therefore infinitely permeable to prayer. We are related to every other self in the universe. In such a world, we no longer know the limits of the possible. Therefore we pray for whatever we feel is right, and leave the outcome to God.