Prayer - God’s Given Tool for Communication - 2 Chronicles 6-10

 2 Chronicles 6:19-21 (ESV)

Yet have regard to the prayer of your servant and to his plea, O LORD my God, listening to the cry and to the prayer that your servant prays before you, that your eyes may be open day and night toward this house, the place where you have promised to set your name, that you may listen to the prayer that your servant offers toward this place. And listen to the pleas of your servant and of your people Israel, when they pray toward this place. And listen from heaven your dwelling place, and when you hear, forgive.

Solomon has now finished building the Temple that his father David had designed.   Solomon is now dedicating the Temple to God and before the people.   To do this he offers up a lengthy prayer to God.  His prayer is actually asking God to not only hear and honor his prayer, but to honor all prayers offered to God when mankind’s prayers toward the Temple, where God is dwelling.  Prayer is a tool God gives His servants to communicate to God and to extol and worship God.  Prayer is not just asking God for something.  Prayer is communing with God in conversation.   We ought not to treat prayer as a incidental item in our walk with God.   But, we would better understand prayer is the main conduit for our conversations with God.