WHAT IS A KING JAMES PRAYER? First, prayer is an actual conversation in a personal relationship with God, and certainly not like Hindu meditation and mantras with their mindless repetition (babble) of words or phrases, hoping to get into an altered state of consciousness. Jesus clearly warns us not to babble on, and the Bible says, "Ask and you will receive." So, biblical prayer involves an intelligent conversation, and in no way includes emptying our minds in some esoteric, mystical, and meditative experience. Prayer is a personal relationship with God, not a clearing of the mind to allow for communing with demon spirits. And as far as the way we should talk with God in prayer, I've demonstrated it to my congregation by showing them how NOT to talk to my wife: I do not use some biblical lingo that sounds like it came from the 1611 King James Version of the Bible, something like, "Oh, Brandie, thou art thee that I loveth, as thou goest in thy wondrousness." That's just playing goofy games with conversation and it's important that you do not do that when talking with God. It is not some rehearsed speech. And I don't prepare to speak wife each day by reading and maybe even memorizing material that I later explain to her through some exact step-by-step formula for supposedly more effective communication. It’s the same with true biblical prayer to God: It should be from the heart. But people desiring religiosity like to throw in mystical lingo.