I've prayed, been prayed for, been taught about prayer, and been baffled by prayer for as long as I can remember. As a child, I would lay in my bed praying for salvation over and over again because I was concerned that the prayer for salvation worked like a light switch, and since I couldn't remember the first time I'd prayed for salvation, it was entirely possible that I'd prayed an even number of times and had thus switched it to "off" now. I would fall asleep praying repetitively for Jesus to come into my heart hoping that I would end on an odd number of prayers somehow. As I grew older, I came to understand better how ridiculous this childhood theology was, but there was a new thing I didn't understand...why pray when God already knows everything? It just seemed redundant. Then, I started learning even more about the redundant principle in prayer. (Yes, I totally made up that phrase.) The Bible instructs us to "pray continuously." (1 T...