Many believers were taught to think of prayer as presenting requests to God and waiting to see whether He decides to act. But when you begin to understand the finished work of Christ, prayer starts to look different. Prayer is not asking a distant God to fulfill a request and then wondering if He will answer. Prayer is persuading our hearts of who God already said He is, what His Word promises, what Jesus accomplished at the cross, and who we now are in Christ—then speaking confidently from that place of relationship with Him.