Most don't pray. They prey. They fill the desperate with hope for a price.

When Oral Roberts plea for a million dollars or God would call him home failed, his decades of sham fell apart. They all do. Just give them time.
His son Anal ended just like Billy Graham's son, mostly because they never learned to earn an honest living. Franklin Graham is spiritual advisor to trump along with Paula White.

Hegseth recently cited scripture, saying he was called, and this Iran war was a holy conflict to which he was called.

However if a person reads on in Isaiah where Hegseth's scripture reference comes, God called for a prophet, not a warrior, and he was to prophecy in his own native land where the people turned their backs on God, and God was done with them. Even when they had been reduced to a tenth of what they were, their self-destruction didn't satisfy the prophecy.

My first ever cartoon animation was about such a man. The Picker. He picks and chooses Bible verse to use as weapons against people he doesn't like.