Remember that people do certain rituals before they engaged into something.
Personally, I used to put a nickel inside my shoe every time I present in the whole class because I believe it calms me done and it makes me more confident in speaking. Same goes to gambling, people pray every time they wish something would happen because it calms them down and it kinda rationalizes them that their actions are justified.
In a world that we live in, nothing is absolute. If all prayers were to come true, then there wouldn't be any problems in the world.
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It's okay to pray before you gamble but other religions or certain dominations will say this is something evil...why because they believe this is a source of greed and greed has no place in the church!
But I guess a prayer should include asking overcoming the temptation of greed and also gaining guidance to make good decisions.
But I guess a prayer should include asking overcoming the temptation of greed and also gaining guidance to make good decisions.
This is about faith, we know everyone's faith is different and you don't have to assume those who pray are wrong or right, because back again about the faith you and they have and it's different. But for me personally related to gambling is purely for entertainment and although gambling I am targeted for a win and profit but I never join prayers in gambling. If they get good results in gambling because they include prayer, then I will still consider that also just luck.
I think it's just to bring positive thoughts for gambler that most of the time we pray in order to win.
But there's no evidence whatsoever that prayer will help us win. It just depends how lucky we are when we gambler whether online or offline. So obviously, it doesn't work, but worth a try for majority of us. At least when we won, we have someone to thank for bringing us a win, or maybe it is just a coincidence.
But there's no evidence whatsoever that prayer will help us win. It just depends how lucky we are when we gambler whether online or offline. So obviously, it doesn't work, but worth a try for majority of us. At least when we won, we have someone to thank for bringing us a win, or maybe it is just a coincidence.
Often times in my country, i have visited a sports betting shop to place my bet, and each time before I am about to do so, i always look out to the other service booths where bettings are received for other other individuals placing their bets as well.
Each time, i notice that out of the five service booths in this sports betting shop, it is common to see two or sometimes three individuals out of the five occupying the service booths always bow their head and mutter some words solemnly, a prayer i suppose.
Big questions - Do spiritual beings get involved or influence gambling results in the favour of those who pray to them?
Have you ever prayed before placing a bet (gambling)?
Did it work?
If you believe it does work, examine this scenerio.
If we both worship and serve same god, and we place our bets on the same games, in a manner that our bets are opposites, and we both say a solemn prayer to this our god before casting our bets, Who will this god favour?
Its just their belief but there is no influence of prayers with our winning when it comes to gambling just like what happens in out life. Its just to calm our mind but some people overdo it and it may worked as well coincidently so they started to follow it as habit all the time while making their bets.Each time, i notice that out of the five service booths in this sports betting shop, it is common to see two or sometimes three individuals out of the five occupying the service booths always bow their head and mutter some words solemnly, a prayer i suppose.
Big questions - Do spiritual beings get involved or influence gambling results in the favour of those who pray to them?
Have you ever prayed before placing a bet (gambling)?
Did it work?
If you believe it does work, examine this scenerio.
If we both worship and serve same god, and we place our bets on the same games, in a manner that our bets are opposites, and we both say a solemn prayer to this our god before casting our bets, Who will this god favour?
Luck comes to us which can't be created with anything.
Do spiritual beings get involved or influence gambling results in the favour of those who pray to them?
We cant accurately answer this because we dont know how God works, but I believe he is fair to everyone. If you win then you're lucky but it doesnt mean its because you're devoted or has a strong faith. Its not appropriate to involve the spiritual being on gambling or connect why we win.Have you ever prayed before placing a bet (gambling)?
Did it work?
I dont believe prayer can help me to win, however I also tried to pray deeply to hit the jackpot on lottery, but it doesnt work. I think its his way to let me know to not become greedy on earing money which not came from hard-work. Did it work?
I guess the spiritual not involved in gambling, but I do not for sure because their world is different from ours. Maybe they can involve influencing the result and they have been used by psychic.
I always prayed before doing something, including before playing gambling but I did not often do that because I do not expect to make money from gambling. I prefer to let it happen if that is about playing gambling because I know that winning gambling is luck.
We all worship and serve to GOD, and I think we can pray to GOD for what we want, and if that really happens, I think GOD allows us to get that. But if that does not happen, then that will not be good for us.
I always prayed before doing something, including before playing gambling but I did not often do that because I do not expect to make money from gambling. I prefer to let it happen if that is about playing gambling because I know that winning gambling is luck.
We all worship and serve to GOD, and I think we can pray to GOD for what we want, and if that really happens, I think GOD allows us to get that. But if that does not happen, then that will not be good for us.
Gambling is a game of luck no amount of prayer would have any influence on the outcome of the result, however gamblers who imbibe in the act of praying before placing a bet do so based on their personal belief of course we have to respect their belief probably that had previously worked for them, there are also other gamblers who also prayed but still lost their bettings thus gambling is 50:50 chance it is either win or loss.
I think this kind of practice like reciting prayer is more on psychological feeling of the person. Though it has no effect on the results but it is how we believe on such things, like for example here, prayer that may attract positive mantra. So yes, no matter how long your prayer is or how sincere it is, I don't think this will somehow affect the results.
There's no solid proof that prayers can be effective on gambling, I think the only thing it does is boost the person's confidence and even if someone does win through praying it's most likely a coincidence. Imagine if prayers do actually work then we would've seen most gamblers pray most of the time and eventually casinos are forced to bump up their house edge to counteract this strategy.
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Have you ever prayed before placing a bet (gambling)?
I remember having positive thoughts when I was still buying tickets for lottery. I wouldn't say it's a prayer but I definitely did it to attract a positive result.Have you ever prayed before placing a bet (gambling)?
Did it work?
I won one time but I didn't hit all the numbers. What I won didn't cover my previous losses though.If you believe it does work, examine this scenerio.
If we both worship and serve same god, and we place our bets on the same games, in a manner that our bets are opposites, and we both say a solemn prayer to this our god before casting our bets, Who will this god favour?
This probably means the winner deserves it better. It's the same with other aspects of life I guess. If we both worship and serve same god, and we place our bets on the same games, in a manner that our bets are opposites, and we both say a solemn prayer to this our god before casting our bets, Who will this god favour?
Gambling is a game of luck no amount of prayer would have any influence on the outcome of the result, however gamblers who imbibe in the act of praying before placing a bet do so based on their personal belief of course we have to respect their belief probably that had previously worked for them, there are also other gamblers who also prayed but still lost their bettings thus gambling is 50:50 chance it is either win or loss.
No, it doesn't work. Prayers are just some sort of method to actually pacify your inner self so that you would actually believe something would end up to be worthwhile, or something would result from whatever actions you would do. It's a method to calm the self, and possibly raise confidence and whatnot, but it's purely mental. It doesn't affect real-world statistics, probabilities, chances, luck, etc at all. It's almost close to a stupid idea of connecting something both you can't control, just so that you have a justifiable reason to blame or to thank for (but mostly to blame ngl).
I have actually done this. Of course this is not actually praying to my god. This has nothing to do with my religious god. I know that my god does not intervene in very mundane stuff such as this. When I do this I am just trying to whisper to luck or to whatever powerful element out there to be on my favor. That is all actually. I know this doesn't make much sense but it is all for the good vibes. It is just like saying, "luck, please be with me today."
Big questions - Do spiritual beings get involved or influence gambling results in the favour of those who pray to them?
As a non-religious person No. if spiritual beings influence the gambling results in favor to those who pray to them there would be more people winning. in the end, people saying that it was a god-given gift that they won a big amount in gambling is just a belief and nothing more(at least for me). 
This is nothing more than superstition. If praying was all it took to succeed in gambling then we'd all be rich. I don't have any specific rituals I do before gambling and I think I have better results than the average person but I am also not as successful as people who have made a fortune. It is really just a mix of luck, risk, and sometimes skill that will determine how successful you will be.
On the contrary, if we think that prayers is powerful, then why not pray and help us from stopping gambling?
For some society, this could be a taboo, most of gambling vices as a far as I know is forbidden by some religion. Personally, I don't do it, I'm a Christian and I don't pray or call for divine intervention to bring me winnings. I don't think it will help, to be honest. "to each his own".
For some society, this could be a taboo, most of gambling vices as a far as I know is forbidden by some religion. Personally, I don't do it, I'm a Christian and I don't pray or call for divine intervention to bring me winnings. I don't think it will help, to be honest. "to each his own".
Have you ever prayed before placing a bet (gambling)?
Did it work?
Did it work?
I think some of us did this in desperate times, this made me remembered something and still feel a little guilty because I am agnostic and yet I prayed to something I deny to believe because I was looking for signs if he was there to help me during struggling times. My prayer worked that time but I know myself that God didn't all do the work that time for me to win, I know that luck was still involved that if I continued playing I would just end up with an empty pocket. He somehow helped me that time to overcome my greediness to continue gambling.
I would say that it's human nature though, we need to cling onto something that will change our luck and some of us calls on higher spiritual being for intervention and bring us "good luck".
So I guess everyone has this kind of mindset, I even see this so called "Gamblers players", to bring good fortune, but if they think it will help them so I can't disagree with them. We have our own beliefs here.
Have you ever prayed before placing a bet (gambling)?
Did it work?
Did it work?
I think some of us did this in desperate times, this made me remembered something and still feel a little guilty because I am agnostic and yet I prayed to something I deny to believe because I was looking for signs if he was there to help me during struggling times. My prayer worked that time but I know myself that God didn't all do the work that time for me to win, I know that luck was still involved that if I continued playing I would just end up with an empty pocket. He somehow helped me that time to overcome my greediness to continue gambling.
Earlier we had a thread for the discussion on superstitious beliefs on gambling. This means while doing gambling the users have specific things to do. Some used to wear specific color dress, some used to gamble sitting at a specific location. This way we can see different people into gambling with varied beliefs. Same as that is the prayer, one who believe just pray before placing bets. Whether the bet wins or losses is the secondary thing.
Often times in my country, i have visited a sports betting shop to place my bet, and each time before I am about to do so, i always look out to the other service booths where bettings are received for other other individuals placing their bets as well.
Each time, i notice that out of the five service booths in this sports betting shop, it is common to see two or sometimes three individuals out of the five occupying the service booths always bow their head and mutter some words solemnly, a prayer i suppose.
Big questions - Do spiritual beings get involved or influence gambling results in the favour of those who pray to them?
Have you ever prayed before placing a bet (gambling)?
Did it work?
If you believe it does work, examine this scenerio.
If we both worship and serve same god, and we place our bets on the same games, in a manner that our bets are opposites, and we both say a solemn prayer to this our god before casting our bets, Who will this god favour?
Yes you're right people don't think about that when they pray or when they use some good-luck charms. How it will work if other people pray or use a lucky charm on the other team or outcome. Will the team/player or outcome with the bigger number of prayers win? Or it's not a matter of number but a matter of power? Then how do you know which prayer and good-luck charm is better than others? Each time, i notice that out of the five service booths in this sports betting shop, it is common to see two or sometimes three individuals out of the five occupying the service booths always bow their head and mutter some words solemnly, a prayer i suppose.
Big questions - Do spiritual beings get involved or influence gambling results in the favour of those who pray to them?
Have you ever prayed before placing a bet (gambling)?
Did it work?
If you believe it does work, examine this scenerio.
If we both worship and serve same god, and we place our bets on the same games, in a manner that our bets are opposites, and we both say a solemn prayer to this our god before casting our bets, Who will this god favour?
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