What prayer is not: Prayer is not some mystical process whereby we call out to some "Force." Nor is it some force with which we create things or speak them into existence, ordering God around like some kind of "Bell-hop" who art in Heaven.

What prayer is: Prayer is communicating with and hearing from God. True prayer is when our will is aligned with the will of God, and we pray accordingly. Prayer is our connection to Heaven and Heaven's connection to us-that is why you should always keep the lines open! {1} You may be saying, Hey I used to pray but it seemed like God always says NO. Out of frustration you stop praying. In doing so, you have unwittingly fallen into the sin of "prayerlessness." Jesus said, Luke l8: l And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint; And Paul wrote that we are to 1 Thessalonians 5:17, Pray without ceasing. 18 In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.

Ephesians 6:18 Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints; We are to pray on all occasions, with all kinds of prayer and requests, and for all the saints.

1 Timothy 2:8 I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting. There is no one special way or place to pray as this scripture says ANYWHERE. People in the Bible prayed during battle, in a cave, in a closet, in a garden, on a mountainside, by a river, by the sea, in the street, in Hades, in bed, in a home, in a prison, in the wilderness, and in a fish.

"Prayer is the breath of the newborn soul, and there can be no Christian life without it."