Prayer is the way that we are to submit everything to the Lord. As we pray, we invite God to come and work in the things that concern us. By obeying His command and placing our cares on Him, we are putting those things under His control rather than our own. This is not only submission, but the very act of humbling ourselves that 1 Peter 5:6, 7 speaks of. In prayer we are acknowledging that God can take care of all that concerns us and that we cannot. The open admission of our condition before the