Much energy is spent by organized religious groups directing others on how best to instruct God, how best to implore God to act, how best to describe the ways through which God’s love is received and understood. All that needs be said regarding what prayer is can be summed up as intentional love. How that intentional love is brought to reality will differ among all people and all doctrines, but in the end, intentional love is love that is directed toward the self or toward another, whether that other is an individual or a mass number of people.