Let me share some excerpts from Talking With My Father by Ray C. Stedman.
“Real prayer is never to be addressed to the Chairman of the Committee for Welfare and Relief.”
“Nor is prayer addressed to the Chief of the Bureau of Investigation. Prayer is never to be merely a confession our wrongdoings.”
“Nor is it an appeal to the Secretary of the Treasury, some sort of genial international banker whom we hope to interest in financing our projects.”
“Authentic prayer is an intimate conversation with the Father – God who possesses a father’s heart.
“The word father answers all the philosophical questions about the nature of God. A father is a person; therefore, God is not a blind force behind the inscrutable machinery of the universe. A father is able to hear; therefore, God is not some impersonal being, aloof from all our troubles and problems. And above all, a father is predisposed by love and relationship to give a careful, attentive ear to what his child says. God is like that.”