It includes adoration, confession, thanksgiving, petition, and total self-surrender. These are all essential to rich, full, deep prayer. And in connection with them all the help of the Holy Spirit is indispensable. But for the present we limit our attention to the work of the Holy Spirit in connection with Petition. This is the central, most characteristic feature of prayer.
Prayer is more than petition, but without petition there is no real prayer.
Prayer is the making of our requests known unto God. But for this work we are ourselves insufficient. Our ignorance of the right matter of prayer puts an arrest on the work of praying. If our prayers are to prevail before God, they must conform to three conditions. Prayer in order to prevail must be prayer for what we need .