Prayer & free will

I look at prayer as the bio-electric impulses emanating from your brain and combining with other people's thoughts. 

Sometimes I would think that maybe when you pray that people will get along and there will be world peace, are you trying to short-circuit people's free will. But then I was thinking that I should pray for people to see their options and look at the long-range effects of their actions. Of course the problem lies with fact that most corporate terrorists, political terrorists and drug terrorists tend to think about their short-term gains. 

And what about when you pray for ill people to get well. You have to remember that the brain energy coming out of your head is pretty low-intensity stuff and your best bet is to call, text or email the person to let them know you're thinking of them.

If you believe that God can change outcomes, that definitely seems to me that you're fooling around with free will.

This was mostly a mental exercise for me. Everyone has to figure out these philosophical conundrums for themselves.