Providence of God?

Providence, is God's activity in the world. A distinction is usually made between "general providence", which refers to God's continuous upholding the existence and natural order of the universe, and "special providence", which refers to God's extraordinary intervention in the life of people. The latter possibly be the result of prayer.

While I do not ascribe to the term "providence of God" I cannot prove it does not exist. One cannot prove a negative. One can prove an existance or occurance one cannot prove the lack of existance or occurance.

It was long thought all swans were white, an unassailable belief and confirmed by empirical evidenced. The first sighting of a black swan illustrated the limitation of learning from observations or experience. Though to that point in history only white swans had been observed. The sighting of the first black swan proved assuredly that all swans were not white.

I cannot say assuredly God does not answer prayer. What I can say is I have never experienced nor observed answered prayer. What I can say is after over half a century I have never observed God healing anyone but Christians continue to pray for such an event. How can they pray expecting which according to James is the only acceptable manner of prayer.