Asking Hashem

From a wise friend:

Prayer is not about asking Hashem for what we need or want cause He already knows and like a loving father would give it to us anyway if we needed it...so why what the point of asking? Its to change ourselves to the point where that thing we are asking for becomes good for us. The analogy is as follows...a father gets a gift for his son, but holds off on giving him the gift until the child acknowledges the father as the giver which is what the father was waiting for...the recognition from the child maybe all the father is waiting for.