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.