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Both views are interesting viewpoints.   Jesus never asked from what I can tell, and I am no expert on this, for anyone's faith to increase.  He asks it to be healed, for the person to be stronger in their faith, and like that.   Are we just dealing with semantics? 

I think a prayer about another faith to God should be more in the line that they see their faith and feel their faith more clearly and that God's will be done for them.  But that is just how I have always preceded.

Prayers can always be a touchy subject as it is such a personal thing, however, the more we openly discuss our approach the more we can understand one and another views and thus we communicate better.  That's just my random thought.

I will respond to you but Mr. E was hateful and demanded I never speak to him again, so I am honoring his hate towards me.

I did a study on the prayer of Love...iow's how can we pray in Love.  As a result of that, what I came to realize is that a prayer of Love always centers around God being glorified.  So, back to the point of the topic, if God heals the person, how is God glorified?  Do others know that God is the one who healed?  Does the person healed know it was God?  Are they actually listening to God or are they just playing the game to get what they want?  Things like that.

When my health issues came into the foreground, I prayed in faith like everyone else who suffers like this that God would heal me...God then reminded me it was about Him and not me and so my prayer changed to, whatever you desire, just use it to glorify YOU.  Since then I have seen Him use it in a mighty way and so I endure until such time as HE, not me, chooses to free me from this fleshly bondage.  There are examples all through scripture of things people needed to endure because stripping away all suffering is NOT His earthly plan.  The question then becomes, can you see the God who Loves and His Love in the midst of the suffering and pain?  Thus a prayer that faith would increase through the thing we are asking prayer for.