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The right view of prayer could be titled Cooperation. Prayer is our teaming up with the power of God. God operates this world by certain physical laws like the law of gravity But there are also certain Spiritual laws and one of those laws is that God releases his power when Christian people pray When we failed to pray then we limit the power of God active in our lives.

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James said, You do not have, because you do not ask God. 
James 4:2
 

When Jesus went to Nazareth, the Bible says that He could do no mighty work there because of their unbelief. Not that He didn't have the power. Not that He didn't want to. Not that people didn't need the power… But nobody believed in him enough to ask. And when they didn't ask the power didn't flow.

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Ephesians 3:20 reads, God is able to do. Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us,

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God wants to do more through us, but His power is released only when we pray. Prayer is Cooperation with God.