Atheists, I think I've seen the power of prayer?

Coincidence.

You still would have found your keys had you not prayed! How is finding your keys where you lost them proof of anything?

I pray to a milk jug and find it just as effective

This is the epitome of how prayer and the human mind works.

Her brain dismissed four misses and focused on a general, nonspecific hit.

Now, most importantly, how'd you end the night?

And then what happened? Did she pray you'd take her to bed? And then you did?!?

Cogent example. You get a star.

That's how it works, lol

No don't be a chump.

Let me pray for 5:00 p.m. to get here faster so I can go home.

Flying Spaghetti Monster helped you.

HAHAHA. That's great.

No prayer didn't work. Dumb Luck + a Good Samaritan DID.

Well she is right if the locksmith was Jesus. But other wise….

Doesn't it just make you wanna say:

"Yeah that's right. The keys weren't there, but since you prayed, they magically appeared there. Uh-huh."

That seems to be typical of how prayer "works."

Isn't that just hilarious? These people kill me!

Yes, this is exactly how prayer works. Every time someone annoys me, or does something hurtful, I don't say anything.

I just go and pray. And each time I do that, i see results almost immediately. Works every time, I tell you no lies!

Hey, one outta three ain't so bad.

*snigger*

Next time you leave the house ask Him (God) to watch over you, if it is his will and maybe the keys will not be lost.
Try it everyday and watch how life gets easier, be aware of all the good things and acknowledge lessons from the not so good things.
Everything that happens to you is a lesson.

The Power of Prayer works in ways people will never be able to understand..

Absolutely! It may take a while sometimes, but prayers do come true!You never know, some restuarants would just keep the keys and leave them until you finally came back another time.

The whole idea is absurd. Even within the Christian mythology it's absurd. By praying that you'd find your keys, this girl was suggesting that God didn't realise you wouldn't want to lose your keys, which would make him fairly stupid, certainly not omniscient.

it's exactly how it works

That is exactly how prayer works. You warp reality in your mind so that you think you see coming to pass what you prayed for.

Yes, that is how prayer works, coincidence.

I think your story says a lot for Standing still and hearing God. That way you don't waste all that time with your methods, but listen for his answer.

That isn't the power of prayer.
As said before, she completely ignored the fact that the first four times she prayed, nothing happened and focused in on someone turning in the keys as a prayer answered.
I do stuff like that all the time, and I tell you, it's just me doing good for the sake of good, not because something/one behooves me.
I just know how frustrated I'd be if I were missing keys, so I turn them in, in hope of them getting to their rightful owner.

That is a typical model of a prayer answered! Even if you hadn't seen the key, her prayer was still answered as "that's how God wants it". Every coincidence or lack of it is prayer answered!

You throw enough "stuff" against the wall and something is bound to stick. All of the things prayed for in this sequence were the obvious ways you would go about finding your keys. She didn't pray that someone would find them and turn them in so I think her hubris in claiming she had something to do with the positive outcome smacks of "pride"…one of the seven deadly sins by the way.

Theologically, god doesn't respond to prayer concerning a petty desire. God would leave that up to the person's own devices. If she would have prayed that you wouldn't lose your keys before you left would it not have occurred? That's an interesting question, huh?

You lost your keys. Your girlfriend prayed about the situation. A few hours later, a good samaritan returns them, and another good guy from the restaurant calls you to tell you about it.
Even the way you speak about the experience "she prayed–no luck" tells me that you didn't take her very seriously.
Your complaint seems to be that God didn't answer your girlfriend's prayer immediately.
Perhaps He was hoping to teach you a lesson in patience?
Or maybe He was giving the girl a hint…
A man with no more sense than to lose his keys, and no more patience than you are showing probably isn't the best choice a Christian girl could make…

You called a locksmith to make a new key? How did that work? That must have been the worst date ever. And no, prayer doesn't work unless you're getting bit by snakes or if you call the toll free number 1-888-731-1000 and donate a minimum of $100 to the Trinity Broadcasting Network.

Prayer or no prayer, the keys had to be somewhere. They didn't go hide inside a black hole and wait for someone to pray for them. If you had a telephone number attached to them, the obvious thing for anyone to do would be to call that number when they found them. In a restaurant, they were very likely to be found quicky. If the keys that you lost were for the car that you were driving home (you didn't state that precisely), God must have been backed up in getting to his prayer requests for making you wait until you had spent so much money on locksmiths because that sounds a little inconsiderate of him if you ask me. It's a good thing you didn't have an accident while driving home; I suspect that answers to all of the prayers necessary to fix all the problems involved with that would have been slow in coming. The only good thing that you'd have gotten out of it was to realize that locating your keys was a fortunate coincidence.

lol. No. Thats somebody find the keys, its not god giving them to you.

Dear god, Please let me win the lottery, and Drop 100 pounds.

I will let you know how it goes.

Remember, God ALWAYS answers prayers. But sometimes, the answer is NO