As we move through this study series, the answer to the title question will be obvious to most believers.  Yet, we can delve into the “why” a little deeper.  And we should delve as deep as we can if we are past the milk stage and ready for solid meat.  Immature Christians will not want to know that much about it – their lives are consumed with worldly cares.  If you consider yourself a more mature believer – come along into the “deep things of God.”

Luke 18:1 

And He spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint

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1. We pray because Jesus said to.  “Men ought always to pray.”  That is not a suggestion – it is an imperative.  We are commanded to pray –

Matthew 26:41

 Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

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2. We pray because it is the only way to get things from God. 

James 4:2

 Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.

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3. We pray because prayer will deliver us out of all our troubles.

Psalm 34:6

This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.

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4. We pray because there is joy in prayer.

John 16:24

 Hitherto have ye asked nothing in My name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.

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5. We pray because prayer can unlock the treasure chest of God’s wisdom.

James 1:5

 If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.

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6. We pray because prayer is a channel of power. 

Jeremiah 33:3

 Call unto Me, and I will answer thee, and show thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.

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7. We pray, because it is a sin NOT to pray. 

1 Samuel 12:23

 Moreover as for me, God forbid that I should sin against the Lord in ceasing to pray for you: but I will teach you the good and the right way:

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8. We pray because sinners can be saved when they pray in faith.

Romans 10:13-14

¹³ For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.

¹⁴ How then shall they call on Him in Whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in Him of Whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?

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9. We pray because Jesus Christ, while here in the flesh, prayed often to the Father –  how much more should we in our sinful flesh, “pray without ceasing?” 

1 Thessalonians 5:17

 Pray without ceasing.

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There it is – the most important reason why we pray.  If Jesus, the Son of God, needed to pray – it behooves us to be as like Him as we can possibly be.