Dear Sanz
I hope you can define prayer. Is it a prayer being recited by many in a religious organization? Or it is the speaking of a person with his heart to his God.
What do you want to achieve in this question? Would you want a MIRACLE to happen after you pray? Well, that would be magic! Let's say I want to change my past because I haven't had a good childhood. I felt my parents never loved me because they never showed me what love is. They thought when they work 10-12hrs a day to feed us and fill our needs that is LOVE. They never thought that hugging once in a while can fill once heart to the fullest and just being with us children, giving us time is an expression of LOVE. That why I want all my childhood be erased. But i prayed hard during those times from 10-18yrs old. I would usually cry during my personal prayers. But I got no answer. I want to change my parents and change myself so that I can be a more acceptable person in their eyes. Still I got no answer. But one day, the answer came. I began to understand my past and put these things behind me. I learned to speak what I want and feel. The past is dead let the dead bury their dead. I chose to love rather than stay in my hole of self-pity of being unloved and uncared. Suddenly, I felt really alive and full of life and love and then I began a new page in my life. Well, it was a transformation of my self and I think and I felt, God answered my prayer.
Let me share with you this short story from the book "One Minute Wisdom" by Anthony de Mello- the title is Miracles-
A man traversed land and sea to check for himself the Master's extraordinary fame.
"What miracles has your Master worked?" he said to a disciple.
"Well, there are miracles and miracles. In your land it is regarded as a miracles if God does someone's will. In our country it is regarded as a miracle if someone does the will of God."
I hope you are enlightened by my message.
Sheilav