God yearns for conversation with us. Nothing of eternal value is accomplished apart from prayer. Prayer is a tremendous force in this world. There are those who believe in prayer that don’t believe in a personal God. Why? We believe that prayer was planted in our hearts to connect us to the God of the Universe. We are created with a desire and passion to communicate with the one who created us. His passion is to connect with us on a very intimate level—and that requires heart-to-heart communication. This communication is prayer. As a result, we pray all the time, about everything: great and small, known and unknown, specific and general, by ourselves and in groups, because we know that this is what connects us to the very heartbeat of our God.