[HarleyD]

Now, I have a question for you my friend. Right before the Lord's Prayer, our Lord Jesus states:

Mat 6:8 Therefore do not be like them, for your Father knows what things you have need of, before you ask Him.

Now if God knows what we need before we ask Him, why should we ask Him to give us our daily bread?

[annalex]

if God knows what we need before we ask Him, why should we ask Him[?]

Because we don't know what we need. St. John Chrysostom answers your very question:

For He knoweth," saith He, "what things ye have need of." And if He know, one may say, what we have need of, wherefore must we pray? Not to instruct Him, but to prevail with Him; to be made intimate with Him, by continuance in supplication; to be humbled; to be reminded of thy sins.

Homily 19