I really like how C.S. Lewis describes what's going on when we pray...
An ordinary simple Christian kneels down to say his prayers. He is
trying to get into touch with God. But if he is a Christian he knows
that what is prompting him to pray is also God: God, so to speak, inside
him. But he also knows that all his real knowledge of God comes through
Christ, the Man who was God—that Christ is standing beside him, helping
him to pray, praying for him. You see what is happening. God is the
thing to which he is praying—the goal he is trying to reach. God is also
the thing inside him which is pushing him on—the motive power. God is
also the road or bridge along which he is being pushed to that goal. So
that the whole threefold life of the three-personal Being is actually
going on in that ordinary little bed- room where an ordinary man is
saying his prayers. The man is being caught up into the higher kinds of
life—what I called Zoe or spiritual life: he is being pulled into God, by God, while still remaining himself.
From Mere Christianity
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