On Prayer matters...

I remember that I had an old 'dying' blog and found out I wrote something on Prayer. I think it must be from someone (Maybe E.M. Bounds or Ravenhill)  because I don't think I could write this in 2003 :)

This is what was written in that blog:

Since God is sovereign and therefore free to do what He pleases and chooses, why pray? 

Since God is immutable and does not change His mind, is prayer effective? 

Does our prayers matter? 

Jesus encouraged us to pray and He became our model in effective prayer. He indicated that proper motivated prayer should glorify the Father, it is offered in the name of the Son, it relies on the Holy Spirit's power and assistance, it meets scriptural conditions and harmonizes the will of man with that of God... 

...And prayers draw us closer to Him, because the dependency on God in prayer brings us to Him. 


My Re-Visitation of these questions will be: 
Yes Prayer matters because God wants us to know He loves us by answering our prayers (with a Yes or No or Wait or I give you a better solution). 
Yes Prayer matters because in the process of seeking God, we get closer to Him and stronger in Him by our reliance on Him.
Yes Prayer matters because even our specific prayers are not answered in our ways, His Ways of answering our requests are always better than our ways.