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The prayers prayed at sporting events that I am talking about or in the locker room are prayers for the safety of the players. If you have ever been to a game where this is done, both sides are involved in the prayer. Its not done to show off. When Jesus is talking about praying out loud he is speaking about doing it to get attention of those around you to show how Godly you are. Daniel prayed out loud and broke the law doing it, was sentenced to death by lions, but God saved him and killed his accusers.

That said I would clearly ask God to support the Cowboys over the Broncos if the Cowboys were my team. That doesn't mean he would answer me but I wouldn't be ashamed to do it. I pray for the Seahawks to win and do well, I don't spend all day on it but I have no problem praying it. Some might say God answered my prayers last week against the Giants.

I would rather be hot than warm in Gods eyes. If I follow the word of God, seek his will in my life then he is obligated to be with me. If not that would make him a liar. If the Bible is not true, at least I went for something and didn't wallow around in indecision. I think God will deal properly with me.

I think that folks that get onto the news and on the radio and talk about how God wants there to be prayers at these events ARE doing it to get attention and show how Godly they are." I have no problem with people praying out loud for whatever religion, and they can spend 24 hours a day doing that if they want to. What I'm saying is that some of the things these folks pray for make no sense to me, even if they are constitutional to do.

If God answered your prayers against the Giants, does that mean that he consciously chose to answer No to all the folks who were praying for the Giants? Were they better people or their prayers better prayers? Does he go by quantity? What's the logic? Praying for something that doesn't make much sense one way or the other is not high on my mental scale of sins, but it still baffles me. Like the banner mentioned above says, if you're on "Team Jesus Christ", what does that mean you're saying about the other team?

Or is it simply that the Seahawks outplayed the Giants and that God chose not to have much to do with the outcome?