That's right, Tommy.  As a practicing Methodist I have an even older chestnut thrown up in my face by every angry atheist, regarding the power of prayer.  We're talking of the holocaust - the annihilation of six million Jews, although curiously no mentioning of the plight of twenty million Russians.  
"Where was God?"  They scream in my face, squaring up to me on occasions.  I answer them as thruthfully as I can.

"I don't know where He was when they cried out for deliverance.  At the other end of the scale what you ask is like a six year-old girl crying her eyes out, asking:  "If God loved Granny, why did he let her die?"  I don't know why He doesn't answer everybody's prayers.  Famine, wars, earthquakes, people born blind et al - it's all God's fault, isn't it!  What an ungrateful world we live in!  

Well I don't have the answers to any of those questions, because I'm not God.  He might not have answered my neighbours's prayer, but He certainly answered mine, millimetres away from a nervous breakdown back in 2003.

Instead of blaming God for everything under the sun for what He hasn't done, for once, just once, let's thank Him for what He has given us.  He has given me, in the main, a healthy life, one in which I have all my faculties.  I've got diabetes through my own fault, eating all the wrong foods, the smallest of all crosses to bear.  He also saved my life when I had a serious car smash - fractured ribs and leg injuries are very painful, cuts all over my head but, what amounted to a miracle - my eyes remained in tact.  Yes, I've been through the wars, but He's seen me ok, so I thank Him for the life I have lead.

Eleven words changed my life forever back in 2003.  They didn't come from the Bible - they weren't evenly carefully thought out - but they did come from my heart.  I'd like to share those eleven words with all of you, because if they changed my life, then I pray, with every ounce of strength I have, that they will one day change your life too, not dramatically like mine, but slowly where you won't even realise the changes that are coming about.

They are, quite simply: "Lord, come into my heart, and stay with me forever.  Amen.