Distinguish "really believe in the power of prayer" from believing that prayer is the only thing you should do. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_drowning_man
Distinguish "really believe in the power of prayer" from believing that prayer is the only thing you should do. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_drowning_man
This is just cope to try to find some coherent position to avoid dissonance collapse. If prayer works you should just use it exclusively.
The funny implication of this stupid parable is that God has become more effective at answering prayers exactly at the rate and in exactly the ways that humans have no longer need him Him to be. The ancient god of the bible had was powerless to cure cancer, but in 2025 he cures cancer all the time - via chemotherapy.