I used to pray and believe in god but it became extremely clear to me that god either does not exist, is unable to do anything for me, or actively hates me and finds pleasure in my suffering. Prayer has never helped anything at all for me.
Meditation has been a tiny bit helpful, just to kind of calm down the circuits. I don't bother with god though, because if he's real then ###$ him with a billion dicks because of all the $#%^ he puts me through or lets me go through without sending any kind of help at all.