Our desires will always affect our prayer life, if our desires are not in order prayer will not be in order. When it comes to prayer we don’t always know how to pray so the holy spirit helps us. The holy spirit helps us with realigning our priorities and in so doing helps with prayer....
The notion that you learn to pray only by praying is not entirely true; there is a difference between the culture of prayer & effective prayer. Jesus taught His disciples lessons on how not to pray as much as He taught them how to pray. Matt 6:5-6, 31-33. Prayer is not about technicalities, language construction...
The balance for the believer is that his prayer life must comprise of long and short prayers if his prayer must be effective; the effectiveness of his short prayers is dependent on the long prayers he has made in the secret. 1 Thes 5:17.
People ask; 'If there is a God, why do bad things happen to people?' Well, if there are Barbers, why do people have bushy hair?
