YOLB: Month 4

I have taken a new look on the prayer process based on Jacobs regular 10 minute prayer sessions in month 4. I have come to a conclusion about WHY the bible encourages prayer. Prayer is not simply showing your faith or asking for things, but more designed to force you to recognize what you have and be thankful for it, along with what you don't and keep you hopeful for it. Jacobs spends quite sometime talking about intercessory prayer, a form of praying in which you pray for others. This is to make sure you keep your neighbors in mind and in good thought, to keep you aware of their trials and tribulations and recognize that either life could be worse, or if not worse, you aren't the only one on the planet having hard times and deserve no special pity. Or so I think.