The document discusses the importance and purpose of prayer. It states that prayer is worship, expresses dependence on God, and allows us to request understanding from God. When we pray, our knowledge moves from our heads to our hearts as we draw closer to God. God's ultimate purpose in prayer is not to have us begging, but to know and be in communion with us.

2. Be still, and know that I
am God ; I will be exalted
among the nations, I will
be exalted in the earth
Psalm 46 : 10

3. Why do you spend money for what is
not bread, and your wages for
what does not satisfy? Listen
carefully to Me , and eat what is
good, and let your soul delight
itself in abundance.
Incline your ear, and come to Me.
Hear, and your soul shall live; and I
will make an everlasting covenant
with you _ the sure mercies of
David.
Isaiah 55: 2-3

4. Your words were found,
and I ate them , and
your word was to me
the joy and rejoicing,
of my heart; O Lord
God of hosts.
Jeremiah 15:16

5. 38Now it happened as they went that He
entered a certain village; and a certain woman
named Martha welcomed Him into her house.
39And she had a sister called Mary , who also
sat at Jesus’ feet and heard his word.
40But Martha was distracted with much
serving, and she approached Him and said,
“Lord, do You not care that my sister has left
me to serve alone?

6. 38And Jesus answered and said to her,
“Martha, Martha, you are worried and
troubled about many things.
42 “But one thing is needed, and Mary has
chosen that good part, which will not be taken
away from her.”

7. As we listen to God, we should answer.
This is prayer.

8. a. Prayer is worship
b. Prayer is the highest expression of our
dependence on God.
Philippians 4:6
c. Prayer is asking for understanding
d. Prayer is requesting (it is not insisting or
clamouring, we wait with patience and
submission until God gives us what we request).

9. e. Prayer is asking for understanding
1 Corinthians 2:6-16
6 We do, however, speak a message of wisdom
among the mature, but not the wisdom of this
age or of the rulers of this age, who are
coming to nothing. 7 No, we declare God’s
wisdom, a mystery that has been hidden and
that God destined for our glory before time
began. 8 None of the rulers of this age
understood it, for if they had, they would not
have crucified the Lord of glory.

10. 9However, as it is written: “What no eye has seen,
what no ear has heard,
and what no human mind has conceived”—
the things God has prepared for those who love
him—
10 these are the things God has revealed to us by his
Spirit.
The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of
God. 11 For who knows a person’s thoughts except
their own spirit within them? In the same way no
one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of
God.

11. 12 What we have received is not the spirit of the
world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that
we may understand what God has freely
given us. 13 This is what we speak, not in
words taught us by human wisdom but in
words taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual
realities with Spirit-taught words. 14 The
person without the Spirit does not accept the
things that come from the Spirit of God but
considers them foolishness, and cannot
understand them because they are discerned
only through the Spirit

12. 15The person with the Spirit makes judgments
about all things, but such a person is not
subject to merely human judgments, 16 for,
“Who has known the mind of the Lord
so as to instruct him?”
But we have the mind of Christ

13. f. Prayer moves what we know from our heads
to our hearts. (Our perceptions of truth are
always ahead of our condition.)

15. Because God wants us for Himself.
He desires communion with us.
His purpose in prayer is not to
make us sit up and beg, He
wants us to know him.