In the 3Oth chapter of Genesis, Rachael goes to Jacob and throws herself down in despair. If the coming of the Spirit didn't revolutionize your prayer life, you'd better check on it. I'm not so sure you got what God wanted you to get. We've said that prayer changes things. Prayer doesn't change things.
Prayer changes people and they change things.
We all want Gabriel to do the job. God says do it yourself - with My sufficiency and My strength. We need to get like this woman, Hannah. Jesus, the anointed of God, made prayer His custom. Paul, with his background and intellect, depended on prayer because he said he was weak.