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Prayer is foundational to the Christian life, but many people don’t really understand it. What is it for? How does it work? Why do we do it? This short and accessible book explains what prayer is, why it exists, and how it can encourage us in our life of faith. Written by a pastor with years of teaching and counseling experience, Why We Pray doesn’t simply tell readers why they should pray, but...

its most basic and fundamental level, we pray because God is a speaking God. Prayer derives from who and what God is, and the great feature of the God of the Bible, the God of the Christian faith, is that he is a speaking God. That is evident from the very first chapter of the Bible. Creation begins with the voice of God, with God speaking: “And God said, ‘Let there be light,’ and there was light” (Gen. 1:3). And so it goes on. “And God said” is the refrain