Some prayers, suspected of being AI-generated, are unhinged traps. One recent video featured a prayer to be read in silence. It is three minutes long. Bearing in mind that Christ taught his disciples a prayer that takes less than a minute, and he himself, in crisis, prayed for three hours, and seemed to have spent whole nights in prayer, we realize that a three minute prayer is not problematic per se. It is the obvious inconsistent content that raises the alarm. We need to be alarmed if we are asking for things we most assuredly have and we are using thanksgiving as bitter up items (praises go up, blessings come down)

Ponder ponderously, but do not lie

Basic and de-prejudicing questions come in various “sizes”

• Does any believer need a new heart?
  
• What does Christ’s blood cover?
  
• Why did he die?

Emulating David’s prayer for a new  heart is likely to be unfruitful.   If you are at the place where you are convinced you need a new heart, you are unregenerate, not born again, and
People are so stuck on the Aaronic priesthood and so committed to proving its longevity they are willing to make Christ’s blood the solution for catastrophic finances, family feuds, immorality, journeys about to be taken.  Can you say you have not heard it?  I plead the blood …
The death of Christ has no associated controversy sorting out its meaning and its purpose: not about the day, not about the significance of Lamb as the identifier of the dying one, not about the relative value of God and all creation.

Leaving those essential questions we see the portions that ask for God to violate his operating plan.

• Can we send (or ask God to send)protecting angels to people who are not believers?
• How can I mention my sins and not mention the sins of all disciples (please forgive us our trespasses)?
• Can God refresh/renew a person’s spirit apart from their interaction with God’s word?

Healing of “past pains” is abject nonsense: is the pain gone or present? One has to recognize the futility of seeking a painless life?  How many times have Christians prayed for all their relatives (or neighbours) to be free from disease or receive healing from debilitating and deadly medical, physical and psychological conditions.
How do God’s thoughts become ours and he remains uniquely God? Do we become divine when he shares his thoughts with us?  How do God’s words become ours without us living by them?
What does closer to God mean when the Holy Spirit lives within us? Is the expressed desire to be “closer” some kind of covetousness of another person’s gifts and experiences?

Christ taught us to pray for common (our needs), so we should believe that “US” when uttered goes up to God from the indwelling Holy Spirit with the full list, for example, of (a) believers or (b) unbelievers (c) people related by blood [family] or even (d) workmates.
If prayers were working as Christ said then sadness, sickness, disease, catastrophic accidents and even the anxiety about threats to people’s well-being do not stand a chance. It only takes two people to agree in prayer.

You are free to believe that in 2000 years God has not seen two believers in prayerful agreement over growth in grace, rescue from emotional, physical, and psychological distress.

A prayer cannot be to Jesus and in Jesus’ name at the same time. One either prays to the Father or not pray at all. The Father is not “Jesus”.  A lot of prayers lead us in futile circles, and leave no room for anyone to discern the answers.  So spare yourself the aggravation of listening to pious prayers and pie-in-the-sky confessions.