Hmmm, getting ready to start a hospital interfaith chaplain internship, and I'm Jewish, my advice to LW if I spoke to them:
Tell your sister that you are following the words of Jesus, Matthew 6:5-6, and you prefer to pray in private, when no one else can hear you. For you, I'm not saying you have to do that, but your sister isn't going to hear much less than actual Gospel quotes, even as a possibility. It still might not work, but I'd tell her I'm taking the phone into another room and closing the door so she isn't violating your own faith, and do it.
Now as Jewish, I don't believe in a transactional Deity as well: "if enough prayers are said, G-d will surely heal me?" No. Good things happen to bad people, bad things happen to good people. "The Devil" to me is only a prosecutor in G-d's court and can't act outside Divine will. "As G-d is my judge", your abusive spouse will have already had his own judgement and cannot hurt you more.
My mom died of gastric cancer in 2006. Did knowing that people of many faiths were praying for her, support her in dealing with the medical treatment side effects? Yes, because she felt cared about knowing that Jews, Christians, Muslims, and Hindus loved her enough to beseech what they found holy for her support.
I don't have any answers for you, and my advice is worth exactly what you paid for it, nothing, but if you want to rail against a Deity that would let bad things happen to good people, I will listen.
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Tell your sister that you are following the words of Jesus, Matthew 6:5-6, and you prefer to pray in private, when no one else can hear you. For you, I'm not saying you have to do that, but your sister isn't going to hear much less than actual Gospel quotes, even as a possibility. It still might not work, but I'd tell her I'm taking the phone into another room and closing the door so she isn't violating your own faith, and do it.
Now as Jewish, I don't believe in a transactional Deity as well: "if enough prayers are said, G-d will surely heal me?" No. Good things happen to bad people, bad things happen to good people. "The Devil" to me is only a prosecutor in G-d's court and can't act outside Divine will. "As G-d is my judge", your abusive spouse will have already had his own judgement and cannot hurt you more.
My mom died of gastric cancer in 2006. Did knowing that people of many faiths were praying for her, support her in dealing with the medical treatment side effects? Yes, because she felt cared about knowing that Jews, Christians, Muslims, and Hindus loved her enough to beseech what they found holy for her support.
I don't have any answers for you, and my advice is worth exactly what you paid for it, nothing, but if you want to rail against a Deity that would let bad things happen to good people, I will listen.