But God doesn't hear the long recitation of personal achievements, even if expressed in thanksgiving, seemingly to God. But often I do not know how to pray, because I simply don't know what I want or how the situation about which I'm praying might best be resolved. So in many instances I can only leave a particular situation in God's hands. This assumes that we have the power to make such changes even if we had the will - and this may be true in some cases but not in others. And our environment determines much of what we can or can't do.
Healing means employment, housing and love.
One of the ways we express our respect for someone else is to wait until we are asked for prayer. If our ability to make changes in our own lives is questionable, our ability to make changes in other people's lives, especially if that prayer as not been requested by the person concerned, is very dubious. God actually knows our medical diagnosis as well as the prognosis - without being told. Indeed, of course God knows the real problem and not just the manifestation of symptoms about which we so often pray. But I am doing my best to 'get up to speed'.