My thoughts on Prayer

Prayer as been on my mind a lot lately.
I haven't always know what to think of prayer, or I should say the power of prayer.
I have just always felt that God knows everything anyway before we even speak, and that He works everything out in our lives the way He wants, so why pray for specific things?
If He wanted that in our lives, it would just happen, with out us praying for it.
That is the way i have felt, but is that right?
So it has been something i have been thinking a lot about, and looking into scripture on it.

But don't get me wrong, i am and have been really into praying. We say a blessing at each meal, I pray with each of the children as I tuck them in bed at night, and we usually almost always pray together as a family each morning after Bible reading.

It is prayer for specific things I have wondered about. Like for instance while my husband was truck driving, I would pray for him when left on a trip. I would pray for him to be protected out on the road, and that he would stay awake and alert while night driving. I would pray for the others that were driving near him.
It would make me feel good to pray for him like that, yet I wondered if it was really necessary? Wouldn't God take of him just the same rather i prayed or not? Did it really make a difference?

Sometimes I would pray before the kids and I would go into town to go shopping ,that He would protect and keep us safe. Yet, I felt confident that nothing could happen that wasn't apart of His plan anyway. So then why bother praying?

But now i feel God convicting me on prayer. I feel that is why He has put it so heavily on mind and heart. And even recent books i have read has had things on prayer in them, and when i read it I was thinking , God knew I needed to hear this.

My very latest thoughts on prayer, is that is important, and God wants us to, no matter if He already knows our thoughts.

So as I search in the Scriptures on prayer, and as God reveals things to me, I will share it here.
In the maen time I would love to hear other's thoughts on this.

In Him,
Mae