What is a prayer?
Why people pray?
Is there just one reason or hundreds of reasons to pray?
Is there anyone in this world who has not started or ended the prayer by asking something from God?
I never thought about this till last year 2011. Somethings happen in life which forces you to ponder on. I started to reason God and what good does prayer or worshiping does to you or to God. We pray to Him for ourselves or for God? We expect something in return whenever we bend our heads in front of Him. Isn't?Just by asking and praying and sometimes even begging, we think that He is going to take our side.What I have realized is that we pray for ourselves. Its not for God. Does he listens and fulfill our prayers every time? No it doesn't happen that way.We get what is in our destiny and what ever is not destined for us, we loose it or don't get it.This doesn't mean that without our efforts and hard work, we are going to get paid off. Because its in our destiny. I am just not discussing that part. I believe in hard work and only efforts pay at the end.
My point is if our destiny decides what we get, then why pray.I think I have been able to answer that question, atleast for myself and my life.
I realized that prayer doesn't impress God and we shouldn't pray just because we need something from him. I have come to believe that prayer gives you strength and peace of mind. It doesn't fulfill what you always ask and it wouldn't, not always. This is life. Life is not a bed of roses.
While praying, ask Him to give us strength to bear what is happening in our lives. We don't even have to ask for peace of mind because it would automatically come when we pray.
Strength and peace of mind is the most important thing which we should ask from God while praying. Once you get that, everything will fall in place. Whether things are set in motion or not, whether the circumstances are for or against you, it doesn't matter.
There will always be ups and downs in life and can't curse God for everything but we can ask something very special from God which will help us during those times: STRENGTH.
