My Experience Towards Prayer (In Response to Jordan's Post: Your Thoughts on Prayer)

My biggest issue can be a dullness and lack of joy in prayer, to which Stephen Charnock says the following:
"Cheerfulness and delight on our parts. Joy is tuning to the soul. The command to rejoice precedes the command to pray. "Rejoice evermore: pray without ceasing," 1 Thessalonians 5:16,17... Dullness is not suitable to the great things we are chiefly to beg for. The things revealed in the Gospel are a feast, Isaiah 25:6."
I still fight these things even as God is growing in me a passion for prayer which I desperately desire to cultivate. Remembering that God always hears AND answers our prayers is such a crucial truth, yet also is so easy to forget.
Let our request be as the disciples in Luke 11:1, coming to the Lord and pleading with Him, saying, "Lord, teach us to pray."
Andrew Murray stated the following in his book, With Christ in the School of Prayer (which I will most likely be quoting through this entire study):
As we see Him pray and remember that there is none who can pray like Him and none who can teach like Him, we feel the petition of the disciples, "Lord, teach us to pray," is just what we need. And as we think how all He is and has, how He Himself is our very own, how He is Himself our life, we feel assurred that we have but to ask, and He will be delighted to take us up into closer felloweship with Himself and teach us to pray even as He prays."

His closing prayer to the first lesson of the book is quite incredible. Let it be ours as well.

"Blessed Lord! Who ever livest to pray, Thou canst teach me, too, to pray, me, too, to live ever to pray. In this Thou lovest to make me shrare Thy glory in heaven, that I should pray without ceasing and ever stand as a priest in the presence of my God.
Lord Jesus! I ask Thee this day to enroll my name amoung those who confess that they know not how to pray as they ought, and specially ask Thee for a course of teaching in prayer. Lord! Teach me to tary with Thee in the school and give Thee time to train me. May a deep sense of my ignorance, of the wonderful priveledge and power of prayer, of the need of the Holy Spirit as the Spirit of prayer lead me to cast away my thoughts of what I think I know and make me kneel before Thee in true teachableness and poverty of spirit.
And fill me, Lord, with the confidence that with such a teacher as Thou art I shall learn to pray. In the assurance that I have as my teacher, Jesus, who is ever praying to the Father and by His prayer rules the destinies of His church and the world, I will not be afraid. As much as I need to know of the mysteries of the prayer-world, Thou wilt unfold for me. And when I may not know, Thou wilt teach me to be strong in faith, giving glory to God.
Blessed Lord! Thou wilt not put to shame Thy scholar who trusts Thee, nor, by Thy grace, would he Thee either. Amen."