Let's aim toward broadening the kinds of prayers we offer. Try to include at least one of each in your next prayer time. We are encouraged to pray for everyone. Make a list of people you don't usually pray for, and add them to your prayer list this week. You may wish to include relatives, friends, people you hardly know and those you don't know at all.
Many people take a casual approach to prayer, fitting it into empty moments here and there.
While this is a fine practice, it is good to supplement this with more disciplined times of prayer. The prophets and teachers called a prayer meeting for a purpose. Fasting can be as simple as using lunch time to pray instead of eat or as extended as consuming only fluids for 24 hours or more. Fasting was a common practice in Old Testament times and throughout much of the history of the Christian church. Some cry out to God, while others feel dismayed, wondering if God has betrayed or ignored them.