Besides surrender, we need to learn persistence. One of the greatest enemies of prayer is discouragement. We become disheartened because we pray and nothing seems to happen. Worse yet, the situation we are praying for deteriorates. Jesus himself spoke of the necessity of persistence when he encouraged his followers to keep asking God for what they needed.
Persistence is, in fact, the yeast of prayer.
You may be thinking right now of an urgent prayer. Take time to quiet yourself in the presence of God. Ask him to deal with your anxiety and show you how to pray so that you might take your place next to Jesus, who is always interceding at the right hand of the Father. When the wine was gone, Jesus mother said to him. They have no more wine.