Hi Robin,

If your friend is too closed minded, he would probably not feel or be aware of his father help.  I know this is sad.  Hopefuly, pain and hard life experiences are there to teach and 'crack' useless beliefs.

Hi Robin, Juditha said what I was going to say. I'll just add that
your prayer is just as strong as another's prayer is if not stronger because this is your friend.
love is the bond that makes prayers come true. as well, every atheist has a higher self. you can try to contact his higher self and ask what's up.
love, alysia

every time you make a wish, it is really a prayer.

every time you set an intention it is really a prayer.

you don't have to believe in God to have it manifest in your life. You do not have to believe in JC either to have what you wish manifest.

it is your mind that activates the process of wish fulfillment, along with your desire. if u set an intention, say you want to send boost to someone (boost is a sort of thumbs up energy to someone) they receive it in a moment when they are receptive.

the same if you are thinking angry thoughts towards them, they will receive this too on some level.
Now if you include in your intention setting area, the thought of what is the highest good to occur, despite what you may wish to outpicture of your own self, you have done a prayer, even if you're not thinking that a higher being is listening. In the collective mind, we are all One being, and the collective is listening.

we do not know the power of our own minds. I have been able to get what I wanted, but it was not prayer.
It was something I wanted but was not the highest good I could have asked for just as well.
this creates suffering to get what u want, and find out that's not what you wanted at all, but it also creates wisdom to suffer from errors, to know of this power we have, and not call upon the highest good, is to risk getting a problem you now have to get rid of.
In this, what u r asking for, is for someone else, their good, their knowledge. it is like a prayer in that it is an unselfish motive.

all unselfish motives move much faster than solely selfish motives, for it is love that speeds it on rather than fear. it is concern for other that makes prayer, or intention work.
God is, we could call God the Light. It is in our minds and related to Love. PUL is unconditional love, pure because, there is no self interest in it's operation.
using PUL in your affirmations, your intentions, your creative personal reality areas, your work, wherever you're at, produces the highest good.
An atheist is obsessed with God. in his obsession he attempts to deny God is. what you deny becomes karma.
Only God can release him from karma. Since you love him, you are closer to God, with this love. you extend the love, it helps to open his mind to his good.

btw, tell him the word good and the word god are related words. he will understand love, he can understand god later.

Greetings too,

Bird, you said :
" if we all embody "god" and god isn't a being, who am i praying too?"

I get confused by that too, but, as I just found when praying for Mother Earth, there are centers of Supreme consciousness / intelligence that are there.
'there?'   Well, somewhere--they exist. We can go ahead and appeal to them even without knowing 'where' they are, and better yet, they will answer (in their own time.  )

Bets