Our motivation to pray tends to go up whenever we're facing some significant need.
So, if we need deliverance from pain, money to pay a big bill, or a way to escape some danger, we get praying... right?
This is pretty normal human practice. And there's nothing wrong with it as God uses trouble to get us to turn to Him.
But, if you go back to the beginning... to life in the garden... it's pretty clear God's original design for prayer wasn't about meeting needs...
It was about communing with Him as a partner in the work of developing the world.
... Having needs met by Him was pretty much a given.
With the Fall... and all the difficulty it brought... meeting human needs became more of an issue.
But building God's kingdom is still the priority.
That's why Jesus tells us to seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and then all the things we need will be added (Mt.6:33).
In this way, our prayers become more about how we can partner with Him in the work He is doing and less about those things we typically worry about.
In other words...
We first pray. "Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven"...
Then we pray, "Give us this day our daily bread" (Mt.6:9-11).