As Christians, prayer has always been considered as one of the most integral part of our spiritual walk. We always hear that we need to pray everyday and all that, but why do we need to pray really?

P-Power
Prayer is the breath of the believer. An average person can live 40days without food, 3 days without water, but no more than 3 minutes without oxygen. It is the same with our spiritual walk, our spirit needs prayer, it needs the connection with its maker. Without prayer our spirit will wane off and eventually we will experience 'spiritual death'. We will lose our connection with our maker, we may look happy on the outside but when we hit spiritual death we will go through life empty. Whatever we have would not matter anymore, whatever we give is insignificant, whatever we do will never bring us closer to any sense of satisfaction.
But with prayer, we can again regain the strength we have in God, we can go through life knowing that we can lean on His power, hide under His wings. When faced with a BIG problem we can tell our problem that we have a BIG God. It was prayer that brings Samson's strength back after his head was shaven off. It was prayer that gave Jesus the strength to go on to the cross.
Some years back, I was helping out in a children's church excursion to the local bird park. At that time it was the rainy season in this part of the region. Coincidentally it was pouring that day, it rained from the morning into the afternoon. It kept on raining on our way to the bird park, but as we were riding the bus to the park, I remember a kid about 8-10 years of age. He was looking at the rain and while looking kind of sad, he bowed his head, put his palms together and he prayed. He said "God please make the rain stop". And true enough, when we get to the bird park, there wasn't a single drop of rain anymore. You can see here that even the prayer of a little kid brings power, it stopped the rain! Prayer brings POWER.

R-Relationship
As we pray, there are 3 relationships we can build. First, our relationship with God. When we pray we are talking to God, we are communicating to God. Relationships are build with constant communications. The more we pray, the closer we are to God, the more we will feel Him in our life, the more we will think like Him and the more we will be more like Him.
Second, our relationship with the person we are praying for. As we pray, there is always a connection in the spirit. As we are praying for the person, we are somewhat investing in the other person's life through our spirit. We may not be there physically but as the Holy Spirit leads us in prayer, we will be sensitive to the other person's needs and we will grow closer to the person.
Third, our relationship with the person we are praying with. As the quote says, the place of agreement is a place of power. As we agree with each other in prayer, we are enforcing unity and bonds, plus there is always connection in the spirit.
Prayer builds RELATIONSHIPS.

A-Attitude
As we pray even more, our mindset would change. God would begin to challenge us to fix areas in our lives that are crooked. He will began a work of goodness in us through the spirit. We would then start to turn into better people. We will start to think like Him and eventually be like Christ.
Prayer changes ATTITUDES.

Y-You
Prayer is really about YOU. We need power for us to have strength in our lives, we need relationship because without God and others around us we are really nothing, we need changes in our attitudes so that we can do more in our lives, become more effective, become sharper, become successful.
Prayer is really for US!

If your prayer life is dying today, don't ever give up. We can always start praying again. Samson was a judge in Israel, however he 'backslided' and his prayer life wane away in the book of Judges, but he repented and he prayed again. At the time of his death he killed more Philistines that those he killed over the course of his life. He once again became the hero of his nation. We can always begin again to rebuild our altar, resurrecting our prayer life. Pray today. =)
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