God wants us to communicate with Him regularly. The way in which we can do that, is through prayer. Pastor Ed tells us that Abraham interceded with God on behalf of the cities Sodom and Gomorrah. We see that God listened to Him and lowered the standard of judgement which He would hold over the cities, because of Abrahams request. We also find through this, that God considered Him a friend. From this we learn that God will take our prayers into consideration, and that He thinks of us as friends.