“That which we have seen and heard we declare to you, that you also may have fellowship with us; and truly our fellowship is with the Father and with His Son Jesus Christ. And these things we write to you that your joy may be full.” 1 John‬ ‭1:3-4‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

C. Gore observed, “the object of prayer is not to inform God; but it is to train us in habits of personal intercourse with God, of personal sonship toward Him. We are made for sonship [and “daughtership”]—sonship is personal correspondence, personal and intelligent cooperation with God. It is a gradually increasing power of familiarity with God; of intercourse with Him, of approach toward Him as person to person. Thus, prayer is made necessary for us, simply in order that by this necessity for praying, for asking, we may be as it were, constrained again and again to come before God, and by asking, familiarize ourselves with Him; and as we ask, and as we receive, grow into correspondence with God our Father.”

Charles Cook concluded that “fellowship with the Father, and with His Son, has a transforming power. By the process of prayer, the image of Christ in us grows. God is making a race of men like his Son. Prayer is one of His ways of doing the work. “

“For whom He [God the Father] foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren.” Romans 8:29 NKJV