Why do we pray?

          I just realized that even before we pray, God already knows what we will ask for or will say. He already knows what we need. So basically we are just telling Him the things that He already know. So why still pray? :)

          God knows that I needed a Savior before I got saved. Why didn't He just save me? Why did I still have to accept His invitation through prayer? Why do I have to ask Him to heal me when I am sick, or to help me when I am in trouble, or to save me from a possible grade of 5.0 in a Computer Science Subject? Why do I still have to humble myself before Him before He does His work in my life? Can't He just do it without my permission?

          Then I realized again something. He is Love. And He does not insist his own way. He is a gentleman. He doesn't force us to acknowledge Him, but He wants us to do that out of love. He desires to help us and bless us, but oftentimes we are prideful and essentially telling Him that we don't need His help and try to destroy His plan for us. We stick to our own plans. We find our own solution apart from Him, not even asking for His guidance. But we pray to tell him "Lord, I allow you to work in my life. I want this to happen but Your will be done."

          Humility is the reason. Acknowledging the fact that apart from Him nothing good can happen, so we desperately come to Him, and pray to Him fervently, hoping that He will soon answer us according to His good, pleasing and perfect will.