Communication with God

Prayer

What is prayer?
Prayer is communicating with God. Jesus, when He was on earth, spoke to all people. There was not one soul He turned away that wished to see Him. He did not filter the people who desired to speak to Him through His deciples. He asked that all people come to Him.

Matthew 19:14
But Jesus said, "Let the little children come to Me, and do not forbid them; for of such is the kingdom of heaven."

1 John 3:1
Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! Therefore the world does not know us, because it did not know Him.

Nothing has changed. Jesus wants us to communicate with Him.

With all our plans we should incorporate God because He certainly knows best. We need to first ask God for help and He will work the rest out.

Proverbs 16:3
Commit your works to the LORD,
And your thoughts will be established.

Proverbs 16:9
A man's heart plans his way, But the LORD directs his steps.

Psalm 37:23-24
The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD,
And He delights in his way.
Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down;
For the LORD upholds him with His hand.

There are only two reasons why our prayers don't get answered (this is stated in the Bible):

1. We do not ask God.
2. We ask for something that is not good for us.

James 4:2-3
You lust and do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain. You fight and war. Yet you do not have because you do not ask. You ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your pleasures.

God expects us (all His people) to pray. I can imagine that He longs to hear us talk to Him. He loves to answer our prayers.

2 Chronicles 16:9
For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to shew himself strong in the behalf of [them] whose heart [is] perfect toward him...

For more on this, read these texts.
God expects His people to pray. (Isa 56:7, Isa 62:6,7, 1Ti 2:1)
God is grieved by our lack of prayer. (Isa 59:16, Eze 22:30)