In the Old Testament, the Revelation of Prayer Comes between the fall and the restoration of man, that is, between God's sorrowful call to his first children: "Where are you? . . . What is this that you have Done?" 3 and the Response of God's only Son on Coming into the world: "Lo, I have come to do your will, O God." 4 Prayer is Bound up with human History, for it is the Relationship with God in historical events.