Prayer is quite simply talking to God, when we address him directly that is when we pray. It doesn’t need to be any more complicated than that. Our faith in Christ should be founded upon a relationship with Christ. In a relationship of any kind, one of the most important things is communication. If you don’t talk to each other, there’s not much of a relationship. If we have an active, genuine prayer life then many of the things which cause us so much grief, lose so much of their potency.