Prayer is a spiritual discipline, though in it's simplest form it is just asking God for what you need. We believe prayer to be more than just asking. Most people will say that they pray, but when the truth is known the average Christian spends less than 5 minutes per day in actual prayer.
Prayer is for many hard work.
Often it is hard because we do not know how to really pray. We often find our prayer meetings unattended and for most people it is boring. Perhaps some of the blame is in the way we westerners have learned to pray - one at a time, while others listen. It is as if one had to be a public speaker to pray. Corporate prayer was never intended to be a presentation of our verbal skills to others.