Praying to Father

“When you pray, don’t babble on and on as people of other religions do. They think their prayers are answered merely by repeating their words again and again. Don’t be like them, for your Father knows exactly what you need even before you ask him!” Matthew 6:6-8

Some might ask then… why should we pray if God knows our needs already? We need to pray to encourage our own personal relationship with our Heavenly Father.

In a world that is desperately wicked and growing ever more so every day we need a closer and deeper walk with our Lord. We need His influence… His guidance… and His hand on our heart… to melt and change us… otherwise the world will influence us…

Prayer demonstrates our dependency on the Lord… to the Lord. We don’t pray to impress others. We don’t pray so that others think of us as being overly spiritual.

We pray because we want to. Because our hearts have fallen in love with our Lord and more than anything else in this world… we just want to be close to him. Spending time in prayer is spending time with the Lord.

Our prayers don’t need to be long… or be elaborate and elevated… our Heavenly Father seems to desire just the opposite. He likes for people to just talk to him… is their own everyday speech that they use with their families… with their friends.

He just wants to hear from his children just as a mother or a father desires to hear from their children…

to know how they are doing…

to be there in time of need…

to answer… when they call…