So why do we pray?

That was a question on the table during John Piper's sermon, pray like this, hello, be your name,

a sermon he preached on December 30th, 2007, here's a clip from that message.

Why pray?

Because when you go to God in dependence upon His wisdom and power and love to do what

you long for Him to do according to His will, you mightily make the Father and the Son

look great.

You make them look great.

When you go to the Father in the name of the Son by the power of the Spirit to do what

only they can do and you plead and it happens, you make them look great.

So let me give you a verse, John 14, 13, whatever you ask in my name, this I will do that

the Father may be glorified in the Son.

Come to me, ask me in the name of myself to the Father and He'll do it, that He in me

will look glorious.

That's the reason we pray.

Here's the way Paul said it in 2 Corinthians 1.

You also must help us by prayer so that many will give thanks on our behalf for the blessing

granted to us through many prayers, a complicated sentence, but not a complicated point.

Let's have lots of people pray, so lots of people thank God when it happens.

That is really into getting thanks, hence He's into prayer.

Here's the way the Psalmist said it, Psalm 50 verse 15, call upon me in the day of trouble

and I will deliver you and you will glorify me.

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