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The thing we most need when we pray to God is wisdom. Unfortunately that is something that as a whole is lacking in most people. A popular saying puts it like this, common sense is very uncommon. In deciding the best approach to prayer, we must take into account that being fallible and sinful creatures, our prayers will surely be imperfect. So, if neither common sense nor sanctity is to be expected, how are we to proceed in addressing a Holy God who is likely to take exception at our infirmity? The answer to this riddle is that that same God who is offended by our sin has made a provision for the Holy Spirit to supersede us when we pray to God and transform our formerly unpleasant petition intosweet incense.
There is yet hope while we live here on earth that our prayers will be heard because we are given the promise that this will be so, regardless of our shortcomings And in the same way the Spirit is a help to our feeble hearts: for we are not able to make prayer to God in the right way; but the Spirit puts our desires into words which are not in our power to say; And he who is the searcher of hearts has knowledge of the mind of the Spirit, because he is making prayers for the saints in agreement with the mind of God. To put it in a nutshell, when we pray to God we are assisted by the Holy Spirit and given Gods wisdom if we request it. As a result, our prayers are pleasing to God and answered accordingly. In short, we learn how to pray to God the more we pray and the more we pray we are given more knowledge.