What Is The Point Of Prayer?

[Fruity]

This is great. Today at lunch my friend told me that she opened the Bible at a random page to allow God to talk to her and that through the verse God slapped her and told her to forgive. After a while I told her about my experience doing that when I was a Pentecostal. I would open the Bible and I would get something to the effect of, "... and washushu gave birth to luki and luki gave birth to tutifruti. Tutifruti gave birth to fafi and fafi gave birth to tatertot." I would close it up and go again. After a while I would find one that made sense to what I was going through and get excited. lmfao

Means of communication with God that I can think of (in a Christian's point of view):
God speaks through a sermon
God speaks through rocks (people who are not Christian, a newspaper, a book, a commercial, anything really)
God speaks through a feeling
Christian speaks to God through thoughts and meditation
Christian talks to God through good deeds

Meh. Few examples. Of course, all of these have logical explanations. I'm just thinking like I would have responded back in my churchy days.

You assume that when i use the word communicate I mean talk, but there are ways to communicate with God without talking. When I pray, sometimes I talk, but most of the times I use another form of communication.

Like how? I have to ask, because we had one guy here that said god communicated to him through digital clocks, and another who said god communicated to him through his opening the bible to a random page.

More importantly, how do you know you are communicating with god and it isn't an illusion or a construct of your unconscious mind?