Learning to Pray

In the same way the Spirit also helps our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we should, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words; and He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He intercedes for the saints according to the will of God. Romans 8:26-27

I have been sensing this about myself for quite some time: I don't know how to pray or what to pray for. So it's been my prayer that God teach me and I become a praying person, even without ceasing. I'm learning, never perfect, but ever learning and so incredibly thankful that the Spirit intercedes for me and for God's forgiveness when I ask for things out of a wrongful heart. My constant prayer being, "Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me." Psalm 51:10

I thank Thee that many of my prayers have been refused. I have asked amiss and do not have, I have prayed from lusts and been rejected, I have longed for Egypt and been given a wilderness. Go on with Thy patient work, answering 'no' to my wrongful prayers, and fitting me to accept it. Purge me from every false desire, every base aspiration, everything contrary to Thy rule. I thank Thee for Thy wisdom and Thy love, for all the acts of discipline to which I am subject, for sometimes putting me into the furnace to refine my gold and remove my dross. From a prayer of Confession and Petition, The Valley of Vision: A Collection of Puritan Prayers & Devotions

I have found this helpful: Paul Washer on How to Pray