Is it prayer that keeps us safe?

Reflecting on the three attempts at car bombs in the past couple of days it is hard to know what to conclude. Since 7/7 we had the copycat attempt to blow up trains two weeks later that failed. We have had several attempts to cause mayhem that have been foiled by the security services (the conspiritors are now in gaol), the two car bombs in central London which failed to explode and the strange incident at Glasgow airport where two men drove a Jeep Cherokee into the glass door of the Terminal building, poured petrol over themselves and the car, which was loaded with propane gas, and set it and one of them on fire, but were forestalled from killing anybody by a member of the public who threw a right hook and downed the flaming terrorist before the police arrive to subdue him. Either the terrorists are amazingly incompetent or we are being specially protected.

My atheists friends will reply that we weren't kept safe on 7/7, were we? But on 7/7 no-one, or very few, were specifically praying for our protection from bombs. That is not the case now. The security services are doing all they can. It is said that they have over 2000 suspected Islamist terrorists under surveillance, and that one of those responsible for Picadilly is a colleague of those gaoled for the 'liquids on airplanes' plot, but it has always been said that the bomber will always get through.

I don't want to sound complacent, but if it is prayer, it is being answered, which is more than you can say for that of the Islamists in Britain. So if you are praying for our safety, thanks, and keep praying.