Pascal Fervor wrote something http://pascalfervor.blogspot.com/2009/10/as-if-in-answer-to-prayer.html wherein he prays for our country while admitting that he is an agnostic, a word for "don't know". The Latin is "ignoramus", but that obviously does not describe Pascal.
I was once an agnostic. And I prayed.
I am a graduate of twelve years of catholic school. We had priests who were family friends.
I almost went into the seminary. Then a priest came on to me in a confessional after I confessed doing something all boys do, repeatedly, in private.
I just stopped going to church after high school graduation.
When I went into Basic Training, the TI marched us to church. The choice was protestant or catholic at the chapel. I went with the catholics. Before mass I thought I should go to confession.
"Bless me father, for I have sinned. It's been two years since my last confession. I forget the rest of the words, can you help me out?"
"What do you mean, you forget the words?", he said and then said soemthing else I don't recall, but the words did not encourage me to stay there, so I walked out.
When the TI came back I was sitting on the steps of the chapel. We talked for a while about why I was out there.

Two years later, I was picked up at an airport in Frankfort, Germany, driven to a hotel in Wiesbaden and dropped off. I was told I'd be collected the next day. It was late.
Sometime in the middle of the night, I woke up in intense pain. It felt like when I'd passed a kidney stone the year before, only much worse. Much worse.
I did not know what to do. The night clerk did not speak english. I felt like I had no recourse. So I prayed.
And I quote: "If there's a god out there who can hear me, if you heal me, I will do all in my power to find you and serve you."
And the pain went away.
Trapped by my own words.
I spent the next three years investigating magic, Eastern Mysticism, psychedelics and a lot of other stuff.

I ruled out Christianity, because I'd read the Bible as a kid, and had
never seen any contemporary power in the Christian church I was familiar with.
But I believe that if you are sincerely looking, you will find that God has found you.