Kosta: Sure, it's an act for which you expect something in return.
HD: I would suggest this is the wrong motive for prayer.
The Bible is full of such prayers.
We can't presume to know what God wants.
HD: If we love the Father, how can we not wish to talk to Him. The only reason we love, is because He first loved us.
That's assuming He loves only those whom He preordained to love Him back — like robots.
You said your prayers are for your own edification, HD.
I agree, but not in your theology. In the Refromed theology, you pray because God wants you to pray! So, what does your attitude have to do with it?
HD: The synergist's prayer is completely contradictory to what they purport-the free will of man.
God gave Adam limited freedom. He could eat from whatever tree but one. Human free will is a biblical truth. To deny it, as the Reformed do, is to deny what the Bible makes abundantly clear.
The only thing that limits our freedom is sin. We are not free to sin. Once we commit sin, we are no longer free.
Last time I checked, praying is not in the realm of sin.
Thus, the syngerist's prayer is anything but contradictory to man's free God-given will.