On prayer: culling some thoughts on prayer today, as I pray!
Knowledge of holiness: it is an orientation to often turn towards our need of Him in everything. Over and over. It is not always that we get better, we just turn more often. This is why holy people pray lots. Prayer is recognizing our need, that we are dependent on God. Then God can give to us freely. Pray until you feel that loving embrace, then you hear His Voice. Prayer lets God in. Puts us in the receiving position. There is a higher who is my source. I pray. Everything real starts in prayer, in the kneel. Prayer brings in encouragement as well. It’s refreshing to spend time with God in prayer, takes us outside all the pressures for a while. It’s like conversational meditation. Pauses in the days, to recognize your dependence. Practice it hourly. Jesus did, and does.
Prayer also brings spiritual growth! It both motivates and supplies the power for it.
Prayer and supplications—our request, known to God—this is for our sake, so we become aware of what our real questions are! Prayer clarifies our frustrations and questions. Experienced this today.
Pray brings in Peace and centeredness so you can serve others more with and from His Center. So prayer is part of practicing peace. Stopping and recognizing him hourly is a great practice, and you will spiritually grow more quickly and thoroughly if you pray often.
Accelerated spiritual growth comes through prayer. Pray often.
It allows God into the hours. So it consecrates time. It makes more of the day a tabernacle. This is why we should pray often. Prayer accelerates spiritual growth because it recognizes and ushers in His Actual Presence.
It also offers Him room to interpret your problems, so you stay free. Freedom has lots to do with the right interpretation. And those interpretations come in prayer, because you can receive more of his Mind in prayer. Prayer is transformational.
Prayer also leads to true fellowship—it places us in the right orientation towards one another as we turn to God together! It builds unity in this way. If all the denominations would come together in prayer, they would get along better. It’s just as at Pentecost, it allows the spirit to come and control the conversation.
Prayer is also the place his encouragements and solutions can get into us. It’s as much for us as Him.
It’s transformative for us to pray. He’s able to do more, when we turn to Him—more for us that is.

John Wesley described. “I find,” he said, “that the chief purpose of prayer in seeking God’s will is that prayer gets my will into an unbiased state. Once my will is unprejudiced about the matter, I find God suggests reasons to my mind why I should or should not pursue a course.”

The chief purpose of prayer, then, is to get our wills unbiased! The purpose is not to give us an ethereal sense of comfort. Thus, we pray to God about His will in some area, knowing (usually) that we are already leaning in a certain direction. We implore Him first to help our wills to move back to the center — that is, willing to do whatever is His will. Once we arrive there (and it may take some time), He shows us through our minds why one alternative is better than another and therefore is His will for us.

“We sometimes fear to bring our troubles to God, because they must seem small to Him who sitteth on the circle of the earth. But if they are large enough to vex and endanger our welfare, they are large enough to touch His heart of love.”
― R.A. Torrey

When the devil sees a man or woman who really believes in prayer, who knows how to pray, and who really does pray, and, above all, when he sees a whole church on its face before God in prayer, he trembles as much as he ever did, for he knows that his day in that church or community is at an end.

All that God is, and all that God has, is at the disposal of prayer. Prayer can do anything that God can do, and as God can do everything, prayer is omnipotent.”
― R.A. Torrey

Prayer for others is about getting His Mind and Heart for them and being blown away again by how kind he is. We usually come praying for ourselves, He listens, but immediately offers us a larger context!

Prayer puts us into an position to receive His counsel and Heart simultaneously. It is for our own good to pray.

What is prayer? I think it is about us approaching the Divine in a way which allows a deeper union. It’s usually mainly about us in this sense, but it is also how Jesus modeled intimacy with His Father. He often just stopped everything to pray. And at all the key moments of His life, we see Him praying.
The churched was birthed from prayer. They were in that orientation when Pentecost happened. It is our basic orientation towards God. It puts is in a position of trust, so we can here His reason, bigger picture interpretation and counsel for us and others.
It is also a way of knowing Him.