“Some people get so entangled in the various dos and don’ts of prayers, so transfixed by the problem of sorting out what is our part and what is God’s part, so bogged down by fretting over whether they, as mere flawed humans, should ask anything of a holy, almighty God or conversely whether there is any point in asking since God will do what he wants anyway that they become paralyzed about praying… Romans 8:26, however, provides wonderful release from this paralysis… We are praying persons being prayed for by the Holy Spirit himself… [So] Don’t fret; just pray. God fixes our prayers on the way up. If he does not answer the prayer we made, he will answer the prayer we should have made. That is all anyone needs to know.”

James Packer & Carolyn Nystrom, Praying: Finding Our Way Through Duty To Delight

Lord, fix my prayers that I may simply come to the Father in Heaven, frequently and fervently. Thank you Jesus for persistent pursuit and intercession. Thank you Holy Spirit for deciphering groanings too deep for words, and working amid weakness. Thank God a bruised reed he will not break, and a smoldering wick he will not quench, and that he leads with cords of kindness and bands of love.