Timing of Prayers

While taking a long hot shower, this thought popped up in my head. When we pray or ask God for something to happen, does it matter WHEN we ask them for? For example, will praying to pass a particular subject AFTER the exams change the outcome of the result? Take note that the exam has already been done and the moment you put the pen, the outcome has already been decided, pass or fail. Which brings back the question, if you have already failed it but do not know it yet, will praying help? I don't think so. So I guess when we pray for something, its because we do not know the outcome yet. Of course, when I say "something", the context I refer to is that has been done already. To back this statement and for argument sake, I think we wouldn't be praying to pass if the result (failed) has been given to us right away, would we?

In a recent scientific article I read, it says that we live in a multi-universe that constantly splits to accommodate all possibilities. For instance and simplicity, if a guy asks a girl out in a pub and assuming there are only two outcomes, yes or no, from then on the universe splits into two, with one universe the guy is rejected and another where he has struck gold.

Applying this understanding to the "exam scenario", when you put down the pen the real result has already been decided but NOT the outcome. To get a picture of this, if by right you have failed the paper, the final outcome may still be a pass due to other factors such as error in marking or mistaken identity (which also means passing the paper will not guarantee a pass as an outcome). So from here on, assuming once again there are two outcomes and therefore the universe splitting into two to accommodate both possibilities, fail or pass, one person will fail and one will pass.

So in effect, when the person has prayed to pass AFTER the exams, in one universe God has answered his/her prayers and the other, well, did not. And here is where we start saying its God's will that he/she did not pass or he did not do enough to pass.

So in conclusion, we can do THREE things. We can either stop praying to change the past that has already been decided whether we know the outcome or not, or in times of desperation still pray to God that we are in the universe which took the path of the positive outcome. The other more logical option is to pray to God that we end up in the universe of positive outcome in the FUTURE because it has not been decided yet. ( There are discrepancies whether time is linear or not in the scientific world. Some even state that linear time is just how humans experience the world. I myself am confused so lets just leave this part out until I grasp the idea)

However, I think there is a FOURTH option and thats to change what we ask for in our prayer. Instead of asking God to pass us which gives us a 50% pass rate and 50% fail rate, we should be asking to give us what we deserve or leaving the outcome everything to God which gives us a 100% chance to achieve that. Although the universe will still split into two, pass or fail, we probably benefit from it psychologically in which God decided it and it was not in our control if we failed. Good excuse huh? From today onwards, I will blame not myself for failing, but God for putting me in the wrong universe and curse myself in the "positive universe".

Note: I hope God doesn't read this...which gives me 50% chance He will not........or will...damn