God reveals himself through prayer.

Why does God listen to our prayers? For the same reason he reveals himself to us. Prayer is of course talking with God. We talk to him and he talks back. It’s not a complicated idea, though we might, and do, complicate it. Prayer is therefore the most common, most usual way God communicates with his people. Yeah, we can… Experience a personal appearance by Jesus. Hear prophets share what he told them. Read about his will in the bible. See, or be empowered to perform, miracles. Have warm fuzzy feelings in church and assume that’s a God-encounter. Have warm fuzzy feelings about nature and try to deduce what he’s like from that. Christians list all these things as forms of revelation, though I would object to the last two. But nearly all of us pray, and nearly all of us hear God when we pray, so that’s how nearly all of us get revelation. Now yes, there are those Christians who insist they don’t hear anything. To their minds, prayer is unidirectional : We talk, God h