Today we answer the question: "Why pray?" God has ordained prayer as a means of supplying the believer with what he needs. This is made very clear in Matthew 7:7-11:

Ask, and it shall be given you; seek and ye shall find: knock, and it shall be opened unto you: For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened. Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone? Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent? If ye then being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?

In the next verse, we see how important motive is in getting an answer to our prayers: "Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts." If our prayers are not in keeping with Biblical principles, God is not obligated to give us our requests. This may be why many of our prayers are never answered.