Spurgeon on Prayer

In a response to her child's question, ("Why do we pray?") Kim of The Upward Call quotes Charles Spurgeon from Morning by Morning about prayer. [See link below]

The act of prayer teaches us our unworthiness, which is a very salutary lesson for such proud beings as we are. If God gave us favors without constraining us to pray for them, we should never know how poor we are; but a true prayer is an inventory of wants, a catalog of necessities, a revelation of hidden poverty. While it is an application to divine wealth, it is a confession of human emptiness. The most healthy state of a Christian is to be always empty in self and constantly depending upon the Lord for supplies; to be always poor in self and rich in Jesus; weak as water personally, but mighty through God to do great exploits; and hence the use of prayer, because, while it adores God, it lays the creature it should be, in the very dust.

Of course, the 4 word answer is, "God told us to." That may sound like a cop-out. However, I think that one can get to a point in his walk with the Lord that "God said it" is enough of a reason.