We will also examine The Lord s Prayer as a model for ourselves. God wants us to pray to Him. If any of you lack wisdom, you should pray to God, who will give it to you. Jesus assumes that we will pray to God, When you pray, go to your room, close the door, and pray to your Father, who is unseen. The Bible teaches that God wants us to pray to Him and assumes that we will.
Much prayer is supplication.
We are asking God for something and acknowledging our inability to get it for ourselves. I urge that petitions, prayers, requests, and thanksgivings be offered to God for all people. It is not a magic formula for getting what we want. The supplicant must trust that God is and can hear us. When praying, we want to seek the will of God, not change it.