True, we can also think of the story of Aladdin and the miracle lamp in another culture. I can’t help anyone, but regardless, I don’t forget anyone in my prayers. At the same time, I know that it is not these supplications that will turn God’s attention to you. What a strange issue would be for me to speak to God: hey listen, help those guys here and there! I’m not saying you don’t have to pray for somebody else, but it’s not worth much in itself. The supplication for the prophets is also another case.
The thing is not so shamanistic. When I look over my days throughout the morning after prayer, thinking of my beloved ones and you, I find that 20% of the worries need really divine help. There are diseases, fates, unavoidable external factors. However, in 80%, so in the vast majority of cases, you are the source of the problems yourself, you are mixing yourself in shit. There are many poorly chosen human relationships, incorrect communications, wrong directions of action, difficulties caused to ourselves. The remedy for that is not only God, but you. Most of all, I’m not the one who could help with a prayer as an abracadabra. Dare to break up with your relationships, dare to build new ones in their place, dare to be yourself, dare to follow a path that pleases God. It is primarily you who can help with your own actions, intentions, and sincere supplications.
We who write, translate, publish, have no more relationship with God than you. We’re just putting a recipe book on the table that has been working around for a thousand of years. Either you read it and cook from it or you do your cooking according to your own idea. If the latter is the case, then eat what you've prepared.