Why Do You Pray?

No matter how many people pray, no matter how often they pray, no matter how much they believe, no matter how deserving the focus of their prayer, what we know is that prayers do not inspire God to regenerate amputated legs. This happens despite what Jesus promises us in Matthew 21:21, John 14:14, Mark 11:24, etc.

If God intervenes with any request why doesn't he intervene with cancer patients: children who are abused and or killed; animals tortured and or killed; amputees to regenerate lost limbs?

Thousands of children die each day for preventable reasons like malnutrition and unsafe drinking water. If Jesus answers prayers as he promises in the Bible, then why haven't the prayers of billions of people to end world hunger caused Jesus to solve the problem of global poverty?

There are not two laws of probability -- one for people who pray and one for everyone else. There is a single law of probability that applies equally to everyone. Prayers have zero effect in any statistical study.

Why do you pray?