This is the beginning of prayer. Prayer, as the title of this leaflet puts it, is the raising of your heart and your mind to God. You might have, in the past, formed the impression that prayer is all about going to God and 'doing all the talking' - that people themselves initiate prayer with God. Sometimes, too, we hear people saying that they felt very happy and good about life in general, and that is prayer. It isn't, really.
Prayer has little to do with feelings, and everything to do with human hearts and minds.
Yet after the Fall, they were cut off from Him. Prayer is one of the ways God has been calling people back to Him ever since. They had conversations with God, and that, too, is part of prayer. The great king of the Jewish nation, David, composed prayers of praise, thanksgiving and sorrow, which are contained in the Bible, as the Book of Psalms. When Jesus, the Son of God, came to live among us, He too prayed, and the love of the Son for the Father shines through in all His prayers.