The only people who can truly pray are people who are born again by the Holy Spirit, who are given the divine nature, whose sins have been put away once for all. They are the ones who will be allowed to come boldly to the throne of grace and commune with God and God will hear their prayers. But we have already noted that many people pray. We have to say they are not praying to the true God, to the infinite personal God who created the universe and rules the universe. They are not praying to the Father, Son and the Holy Spirit.
Prayer is very, very difficult.
It is a very difficult exercise. We can come to church easily. We can read the Bible easily. We can listen to sermons easily. We can do many, many things more easily than going to God and praying.