What is prayer to you?

Prayer is acknowledging and experiencing the presence of God and inviting His presence into our lives and circumstances.  It's seeking the presence of God and releasing the power of God which gives us the means to overcome any problems. - Stormie Omartian

"Prayer is not praise, adoration, humiliation or confession, but asking. Praise is not prayer and prayer is not praise.  Prayer is asking.  Adoration is not prayer, and prayer is not adoration.  Prayer is always asking; it is not anything else but asking,” Quote John R. Rice

Prayer is one of the most wonderful privileges we are afforded as children of God, and yet it may be one of the most neglected.

Time spent in the presence of the Father prepares us for challenges that will test our faith in Him - moments we could not handle in our own strength.

Effective prayer involves : 1) praise

                                          2) thanksgiving

                                          3) repentance

                                          4) specific request

                                          5) commitment

When we pray, God sees our heart, not our performance. 

Prayer is a dialogue - a two-way conversation between us and God.

How can we hear from God?  It begins with a desire - to know God and to be known by Him?   Jesus said in John 10:27, "My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow Me" (KJV)

PRAYER protect us and changes things.  It keep us in the will of God and draw us closer to God.  It make us less selfish beside healing us from all pains and make us stronger spiritually.  Beside giving us peace, it also make us happy and give us hope.