Reply #77: What is it with people who offer to pray for you?

[erinlough]

Honestly I've never understood or appreciated it. Is it an insinuation that they, the prayer, have a clearer line to God? Do they subscribe to the notion that if God hears it from more than one source he will more likely give you what you want? Do they evaluate you as they watch you and decide they are closer to God than you are, or that you are in pain so you must have done something wrong that pissed off God and they will fix it? When someone asks me, or offers to, pray for me I tell them I can and probably should say my own prayers since I feel I can have a personal relationship and I don't need their intercession.