I've started reading a new book by Larry Crabb called "The Papa Prayer". It sounds insightful, and I think it will be very good. The sub-title is "The Prayer You've Never Prayed".The forward to the book has the following quotation...
"But if God is so good as you represent Him, and if He knows all that we need, and better far than we do ourselves, why should it be necessary to ask Him for anything?"
"I answer,
What if He knows Prayer to be the thing we need first and most?
What if the main object in God's idea of prayer be the supplying of our great, our endless need-the need of Himself? Hunger may drive the runaway child home, and he may or may not be fed at once, but he needs his mother more than his dinner. Communion with God is the one need of the soul beyond all other need: prayer is the beginning of that communion, and some need is the motive of that prayer. So begins a communion, a talking with God, a coming-to-one with Him, which is the sole end of prayer."
- George MacDonald
