I would like to revise my previous reply. Spirituality, not religion, is the true way to connect with God. Religion is man's conception of God. Spirituality is actually communing with God. Yes, my prayers are answered. And, yes, it is because of emotions, not words. I even have happen what I call tilts. That is, through prayer, things are changed in impossible ways. Hard to explain this but something could be a certain way but change to be entirely different. God is that powerful. This may sound crazy to you but I would like to say that you can equate this to quantum dimensions. Quantum physicists know that there can be dimensional changes or changes in our realities. I do believe that there can be a scientific basis for this but I believe that science has not yet discovered that God is the author of all of science. I believe that science will eventually find God.
True Christians are spiritual, not religious. The people who you see who are angry, cruel, and sadistic are not Christians. They are people who call themselves Christians but they do not have a relationship with God at all. They give God and Christianity a bad name. In reality, although I believe that what Jesus said was spiritually true, I believe in the God of all mankind. I think that I told you previously that God has led me to people of various religions who know God. These people are spiritual. The way you know that a person is truly spiritual is that they are loving people, not hateful people. Hateful people do not speak for God. They are liars. This is what I was trying to explain to you.