Prayer is an integral part of transformation from the glory of man to the glory of God. Prayer fits right into the scheme of things because God's purpose requires a great deal of fellowship with Him. Before conversion one was largely the product of fellowship with Satan. People with like minds tend to seek out each other. While together they tend to shape one another's minds as well. Each individual is shaped by associates. Prayer is intended to be an act of a free moral agent who consciously chooses to fellowship with God for the development of the relationship and the completion of His purpose. When one prays one is in the presence of God and He has the opportunity to rub off on that one. Some of His Spirit reaches out from Him and begins to affect one for good. Prayer is a major tool in this development. It plays a major role in God's rubbing off on one. All the while this is going on the mind is being shaped by Him because one is in His presence. The word entugchanein began to mean to meet. Through the centuries it began to mean to meet and converse. As time went by it began to mean to have intimate fellowship with the person. The word is describing how to have a right approach to God. It means that one is not conversing with God from a distance. One is so intimately associated with Him that one is His child. It is an intimate Family relationship that this word is describing. One has to understand that one is right in His presence. If one is going to have the right kind of fellowship and relationship with God in prayer one has to understand that one is right in His presence. The noun form of the word is enteuxis. This word means petition to a king. When the two are put together it means that one has intimate access to petition to the king. It means that one has both privilege and power in prayer. Because of having the privilege to come before the King in an intimate fellowship one has access to the power. It is not that prayer itself is the power but that one has access to the One that has the power.

Prayer as fellowship is the direct communication and companionship with the living God the Father and His Son Jesus Christ, in which believers talk to Them and They speak in return through the Word. This fellowship arises from the faith that God implants by His Spirit, a faith that perceives Them not merely as abstract truths but as a warm, dynamic, and powerful Personality who is Creator, Sustainer, Savior, and High Priest. Because faith fixes its attention on that Personality, prayer becomes the practical means of drawing near, speaking freely, and sharing hopes, burdens, and needs without fear or pretense. Fellowship with God through prayer is the primary relationship on which all spiritual life depends; fellowship among brethren is secondary and serves to strengthen it by mutual exhortation. As faith grows through this fellowship, it produces earnest desire, an awareness of spiritual need, and the fervency that turns requests into persistent, heartfelt communion. The same fellowship guards against unbelief, breaks the progression from tolerated sin to hardened apathy and final departure from the living God, and supplies the encouragement needed to persevere in submission to His will. By keeping company with the Father and the Son in prayer and in the study of His Word, believers receive the mercy, grace, and transforming influence that conform them to His character. The quality of this fellowship therefore determines the strength of faith, the intensity of desire, and the effectiveness of every other spiritual activity, for without it the relationship that God purposes to establish with His children cannot be realized or maintained.

Prayer emerges as the practical means by which believers enter into genuine fellowship with God, and this fellowship is presented as the antidote to despair, discouragement, and self-condemnation experienced amid a world that seems increasingly out of control. The foundation for this understanding is drawn from the apostle John's opening statement of purpose in his epistle, where he declares that what he has seen and heard he proclaims so that others may have fellowship with him, a fellowship that is ultimately with the Father and the Son. This fellowship, described in Greek terms that Protestants render as "communion," is identified as the very purpose behind Passover and the death of Christ—not merely the fact of His death, but its effect: restored access into God's presence. A crucial connection is drawn between guilt and withdrawal from this fellowship. Just as Adam and Eve ran and hid from God after sinning, believers who feel conscience-stricken tend to shy away from God rather than seek Him. This avoidance directly undermines confident prayer, since one cannot approach with assurance while hiding. The Greek word parresia, translated "confidence" in 1 John 3:21 and "boldness" in Hebrews 10:19, is explained as the freedom to speak one's mind without fear or shame—a freedom that, in relation to God, is not an inherent right but is granted through obedience and made possible by the removal of guilt through the blood of Jesus. This confidence manifests specifically in "constant praying and witnessing," directly tying prayer to the believer's assurance of standing with God. Hebrews 10 reinforces this by describing believers as having boldness to enter the Holiest by the blood of Jesus, through a new and living way, with an invitation to draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith. This drawing near is prayer itself—the active response to Christ's opened way into the Father's presence. The material stresses that prayer, along with Bible study and Sabbath services, places believers literally in God's presence, and that in His presence is fullness of joy, not discouragement, despair, or guilt. God's Personality is so powerful that being in His presence naturally infuses believers with His attributes—love, peace, goodness, gentleness, kindness, mercy, and self-control—counteracting the character already shaped by a hostile world. This is illustrated through the psalmists' experiences: one called on the Lord in distress and was answered, refusing to be overwhelmed by surrounding troubles because his trust rested in the Lord's name and nature. Another rejected the impulse to flee like a bird to the mountains, choosing instead to trust that the Lord's throne remains in heaven and that His eyes behold the righteous. Prayer, understood this way, is not merely petition but the active pursuit of fellowship—running toward God rather than hiding from Him—so that His presence, and the joy, help, and resolution found there, becomes the believer's continual source of confident living amid overwhelming trials.