Why Pray?

[Christ4Ever]

Billy Graham

If God already knows our needs, why pray? Perhaps this question has even
kept you from praying-but in reality it should make us pray more.

If you are a parent, do you discourage your children from
coming to you with their requests-even if you already know what
they want? No, of course not. You love them, and you take delight
in listening to them. Even if you say no to their requests, it's because
you know better than they do what is best for them.
God, our heavenly Father, loves you, His children
-and one of our greatest privileges is coming to Him in prayer.

Your Father knows what you need before you ask him.
Matthew 6:8

 

[Nang]

Billy Graham

If God already knows our needs, why pray? Perhaps this question has even
kept you from praying-but in reality it should make us pray more.

If you are a parent, do you discourage your children from
coming to you with their requests-even if you already know what
they want? No, of course not. You love them, and you take delight
in listening to them. Even if you say no to their requests, it's because
you know better than they do what is best for them.
God, our heavenly Father, loves you, His children
-and one of our greatest privileges is coming to Him in prayer.

Your Father knows what you need before you ask him.
Matthew 6:8

Excellent question and good answers . . .

To neglect praying for needs, by resting in assumed blessings alone, reveals a fatalistic mindset.

It is not faith . . .

Even if we do not feel a need, and have no reason to petition, the faithful Christian will pray to express praise and thanksgiving and love in his heart, for the Lord. Prayer for the believer is as natural as breathing, for through prayer, we stay in communion to our very spiritual life that is in Christ. And every prayer we utter proves to be a prompting by His Holy Spirit who indwells us. Romans 8:26-27