What Prayer Is

What Is Prayer?

To me, prayer is communicating with God. Pray is getting down on your knees, folding your hands, bowing your head, and asking God for something. Yes I do pray. I pray on a daily basis several times a day. I pray in home room before school starts. I pray in religion class. We always pray every day at the beginning of Spanish class in Spanish. I also pray every night before I go to bed.

When I pray, I pray to God because when you pray, you'd normally pray to your god(s), and God is my only god. I pray to God to become closer to Him, and to connect with Him, and just to talk to him. I pray when I need something. When I need direction, when I don't know what to do, when I'm scared, when I need help, when I want forgiveness, and when I want something. I pray to ask God for stuff, like, help, guidance, and comfort.

I don't know if it works. When I get something that I prayed for I think that it was going to get it or it was going to happen whether I prayed about it or not, or that it was just coincidental if something turned out the way I hoped for it to. I don't really believe that if you ask God for something and you get it, it was because He answered your prayers, and if you didn't get it, then God refused to give it to you, or He didn't answer your prayer, or you're not suppose to have it. I think that if you get something you really wanted and you prayed for it, then you had it coming and it was meant to be all along. And if you didn't get it, then you weren't meant to have it. I don't really believe in the saying, "Ask and you shall receive," because I ask for many things and a lot of times I don't get them.

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