Colossians 4:1-2

Masters, [on your part] deal with your slaves justly and fairly, knowing that also you have a Master in heaven. Be earnest and unwearied and steadfast in your prayer [life], being [both] alert and intent in [your praying] with thanksgiving. Colossians 4:1-2

I will be honest with you all, when it comes to praying, I struggle. I have no idea of what or really how to pray. Now I could beat the daylights out of myself for this. I could question and condemn myself, or I can just look at what Paul had to say about his and ours prayer life’s and find peace.

So too the [Holy] Spirit comes to our aid and bears us up in our weakness; for we do not know what prayer to offer nor how to offer it worthily as we ought, but the Spirit Himself goes to meet our supplication and pleads in our behalf with unspeakable yearnings and groanings too deep for utterance. Romans 8:26

Paul wrote that he didn’t know how to pray either, but that didn’t matter for one second, because we have the Holy Spirit Himself making petitions for us. So basically, once again, we win in spite of ourselves.

Jesus tells us to keep on asking though, so let’s keep on asking. 

Keep on asking and it will be given you; keep on seeking and you will find; keep on knocking [reverently] and [the door] will be opened to you. For everyone who keeps on asking receives; and he who keeps on seeking finds; and to him who keeps on knocking, [the door] will be opened. Or what man is there of you, if his son asks him for a loaf of bread, will hand him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will hand him a serpent? If you then, evil as you are, know how to give good and advantageous gifts to your children, how much more will your Father Who is in heaven [perfect as He is] give good and advantageous things to those who keep on asking Him! Matthew 7:7-11

There are a couple of things that Jesus clearly tells us about prayer. First He tells us to take no thought for our own life’s. He then tells us to go to our most secret place and pray and that it doesn't have to be some long drawn out thing. Look at how short the Lord's prayer is. Jesus tells us not to be like the hypocrites who love to pray in public, we are told to do it in secret and by ourselves. So basically we are told to pray for others, not ourselves, and that we are to do it in secret and that we are to keep on doing it. So please pray for me and I will pray for you and if we aren’t doing it right our Father will make it right anyway.