In my experience, for a prayer to be effective, it must be spoken in the present tense from a standpoint of gratitude that it is already done.
In other words, most people pray wrong.
This is entirely consistent with everything from LoA to Jesus' instructions to Wiccan prayers to Magickal incantations.
When you beg for something you don't have - or pray for it in the future, you get exactly what you pray for...not having it, and always having it in the future, not now.
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