Prayer: Talking to God part 1

I think prayer is the best gift, besides Jesus dying on the cross, that we have been given from God. No matter what is going on in life, no matter how we feel, no matter how many times we have failed God, he stills hears us when we pray. We can do it anywhere, anytime, and he still hears us. Hundreds of people pray to God each day, some for the first as they ask for God to save them, and God hears them.
God is so awesome, he can listen and answer all of our prayers each day. I have really seen God's power of answering prayer these passed two weeks. It started when my family began to read The Power of Persistence: Breakthroughs in your prayer life. This book showed me that we can't pray once, and expect God to answer right away. sometimes this will happen, but we need to be persistent in our prayer. Great things happen when we pray.
After reading we had our prayer time. We prayed for some of the thousands of persecuted Christians in the world. The next my sister was talking to my mom. She said that a Christian women had been released from prison in Tanzania. My mom asked the name of the women, and to her amazement, my sister answered with the name of a women we had prayed for the night before. God is amazing!
Yesterday night when I got home from church, i checked my email. To my thanks to God, my cousin posted several things about her coming back to sanity, and receiving God's never-ending grace. You see, my cousin had been away from God, largely in part to depression.  God answered my prayers, and also the prayers of many others to heal her. But I had been praying for a month. God didn't answer right away. He wanted me to stay faithful to him, and for me to trust his timing.
If we would stay consistent in our prayer life, which I have struggled with, we could see God do some mighty things. I encourage everyone to take the time to pray to God. We have time for video games, movies, and activities. Don't we have the time to pray to God? Prayer is like talking to him in person! Yeah, that's right, we can talk directly to God. We should take this amazing gift he has given us and use it for his glory.