At the heart of the ongoing conversion and obedience to God is prayer.
Probably prayer has more definitions than most things in our Christian life.
This is quite true, provided that we realize that it is God who does the lifting. The initiative is always God's. Jesus came among us to tell us, to show us, that God is not a remote force, an unmoved cause in the heavens. No, God is personal and wants a personal union with us. We do not have to go looking outside ourselves for God.