There are various reasons for turning to God with the prayer of people. Someone does this out of despair, having finally lost faith in their own abilities, for someone, prayer is the joy of communicating with the Almighty. But especially often people pray in order to ask God for something.
Human requests to God are different: a seriously ill person begs for healing, the mother who spent her son in the war asks him to return alive
But it also happens that a person who has everything relatively well in life wants something more, most often - good luck and money. Many sincerely believe that prayer can attract both.
Attraction of good luck
The concept of luck came from pagan antiquity. From the point of view of the ancient pagan man, luck and failure were not just a favorable or unfavorable combination of circumstances, but the qualities inherent in a certain person, some forces accompanying him.
These forces seemed almost a material phenomenon - so much so that they could be "infected" by receiving any object that belonged to a person, or simply talking closely with him.
In the framework of the mythological thinking inherent in ancient man, it was believed that everything in the world can be influenced by certain laws, and the main one - "Like gives birth to like." They also tried to influence luck according to this law, the origin of many signs is connected with this: a rich, successful person has a lot of cattle, horses, which means that some object connected with a horse will attract luck and wealth - for example, a horseshoe
This is just one example of an attempt to “attract luck” - there were many similar magical actions. Spells were also used — certain verbal formulas that guaranteed, according to an ancient person, a result.
A modern person who wants to attract luck and money through prayer perceives prayer as the same pagan spell. Such a representation is completely inconsistent with the Christian understanding of prayer. For a Christian, prayer is not a way of directly influencing the world, but direct communication with the Almighty. Communication, however, cannot guarantee any particular result, including in the form of good luck and money. The maximum that is possible in prayer is to ask God for what is desired.
