 What you need before you ask him. This then is how you should pray. Our father. Foreign concept. Judaism of the day had the sense of God's majesty and his glory and his transcendence. But they had missed the truth of scripture of his fatherhood, of his intimacy, of his approachability. And since God is your father, he has a dream. He's got a plan for your life. How many people, by the way, just are parents in here? You got a kid. Wow. Awful lot of us.