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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Good questions.
And my personal answer from a non theologian perspective—but from the perspective of a Bible-believing Christian is that we pray because that is how God instructs us (through scripture) to communicate with him in order to receive guidance, gifts, and grace.
As a Christian, we pray to express our thanks, our worship/adoration for the creator of all things, our wants, our love, our needs—to ask for forgiveness and guidance, to demonstrate reverence and our desire to be obedient, even when we fall short—which we always do.

We do this because Jesus demonstrated this when he prayed for all of these things for all of these purposes, and our desire is to know and be close to God. Jesus taught that we do this by turning to him in prayer because if we bring him our gratitude and needs, he will “make our paths straight” through revelation in many forms.
Essentially, it’s meditation with meaning and significance. It focuses our hearts on what is important (seeking and knowing Gods will, putting our trust and faith in the creator and asking him to forgive our wickedness and guide our journey toward making the world he created a more loving existence until we join him in heaven for all eternity.
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Atheist here.  Thank you.  This is lovely.  [/quote]

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