Prayer: Communion with God

Who are we? Creatures created for communion with God The gospel is about the restoration of our true creatureliness. Thus the gospel is about restoring communion with God as his creatures. 

We have also seen that the story of the Gospel is the restoration of true prayer; it is the story of the restoration of real relationship between man and God. Down through the ages God has called out to man, and his last and ultimate word and call to human beings has been in the person of his only Son. Jesus Christ is God's ultimate word to man. So the very essence of real prayer is simply answering God in the call that comes to us in Jesus Christ. Prayer is responding to Jesus. We can pray because God is a speaking God, because we have been created to respond to him, because we have been redeemed that we might again respond to him.  

Why We Pray by William Philip 

In the minds of so many Christians, prayer is simply asking God for things, prefaced by words of praise that we're supposed to utter and also including thanksgiving since that's simply being polite. How wrong! Prayer is intended to be communion with God, our Father. We pursue a real relationship with Him because we can. It's what the Gospel is about.