Can 'anyone' use a prayer request?

Hmm...this is a delicate subject, so please know I mean no disrespect.

Why ask for prayers? Why have a prayer forum here? Isn't it enough for just ONE person to pray and have that prayer answered? I ask because of the following verses:

Matthew 21:22 -- And whatever you ask in prayer, you will receive, if you have faith.

Matthew 7:7-8 -- [7] Ask, and it will be given you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you [8] For every one who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.

Mark 11:23-24 -- [23] Truly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, 'Be taken up and cast into the sea,' and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will come to pass, it will be done for him. [24] Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.

John 14:13 -- Whatever you ask in my name, I will do it, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

Shouldn't one prayer, yours, be all it takes to have the prayer answered? Why the need for multiple people praying for the same thing?

Thanks
 
I think it's mainly because of the comfort that one feels when they know other people are actively caring about his or her situation. I don't think it matters how many people pray for someone..you can't quantify that sort of thing.
 
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