Antioch Baptist Church of Cleveland

We pray because we have the assurance of our association with God—or let me say it succinctly, we pray because God is affectionate towards us. God is able, God can, but God is affectionate. God cares. Listen, earlier when Jesus taught us to pray, Jesus told us to approach God not as someone who needs to curry favor with God, but as someone would as a child would approach a loving parent. Jesus taught us that we are the children of God—a God who is not a deadbeat parent but one that is able, attentive, affectionate, and available.