How can we help! What is a prayer. What to pray for.

I am so sorry your friend's mother is dying and is in so much pain. There are many ways to pray for people. Praying for God's will in this situation is the best.

I fully agree with you. My sister-in-law is not hospitalized with stage 4 cancer, the doctors know that it's a matter of days, at most weeks, so I do not understand why they continue the chemo and do not let her alone.

Why not pray for wisdom for the doktors to relieve the pain. I don't know her situation, but I read about a woman who was dying in cancer and she was advised to eat only vegetables to avoid the pain. She did so, and probably due to the alkaline diet, the cancer disappeared. According to Dr Robert O. Young an alkaline diet can help. He is in Facebook..

I don't think there is anything wrong with praying that God will stop your friend's mother from suffering and to end or lessen her pain in some way. Pray in your own words, as God can read the thoughts of our hearts. I hope and pray that her pain and suffering will end soon.

When my husband was in the hospital after his fatal fall and the doctors were trying to stop his brain from bleeding, I remember trying to pray and not knowing how. So I sat and thought and thought. I wanted to beg God to save his life and give him back to me. But the doctors said that if he lived, he would probably have brain damage. How could I beg God to make the rest of his life be so awful for him? It wasn't about me, after all. It was only about my husband. And so I prayed the only words I could. "Thy will be done." Only God knows what is best. And when my husband passed away, I knew he was in God's arms and I would see him again when God calls me home. I will pray for your friend's mother, and I know that God will do what is best for her, as well.

When I pray for someone I wish the best for the person! I wish good and positive things! It is like sending good energies, sending love! I always feel good after praying, because having light thoughts is quite relaxing, even when the situation in my life isn't the best. We can't control if someone is going to live or die. But we can always send them love! This is good for your soul and specially theirs. This is really helpful in tough times if you believe in something greater!

I agree with you. Sometimes it is the people who are well who want to prolong life and they want to do so at all costs.

There are strong painkillers which should help.

Just an opinion, sometime we misinterpret the means of prayer, sometime we use it only for a call of help. The thing that we can not is why we need to pray? and now if you pray just for the needs sometime it wrong. once we pray always think about it, where is the answer? how do i know if it an answered prayer? When we go to church every Sunday and every time we attend a bible study, there if you here a word that sometime put a mark in our hearts an relate to what is happening eventually in our life that means that's the answer of our question to our God. Think about it, just like when we are calling to some one on the phone we expecting someone to talk back. just like God when we pray expect how God will reply, you know how sometime He reply at the church, when we read the bible and when attend the bible studies. And for that matter, think about what is the God's purpose why that person experiencing that pain. Maybe He trying to test how big is the faith she has. And even to the relative He is trying to look who ever put God first than to believe on what the human tells. Do not worry about what gonna happen to her its because God knows about the plans we know God is the author of our life... Be blessed.