Pray as you ought and your prayers will always be
answered. Our cries, yearnings, proclamations,
songs, rejoicing and expressions of thanks are
authentic forms of prayers.

Do not pray for material things, health or happiness.
Let your prayers consists of this twosome:
1) for guidance that you may be shown the way to
acquire or not acquire the desires of your heart.
2) giving thanks for all things.

The guidance you seek may come, or it may not
come, but either of these is an answer. If a child
ask for ice cream  from  his mother and it is not
forthcoming the mother has answered the child's
request.

Give thanks with an appreciative spirit for every-
thing, always and at all times with the recognition
that God is good and a loving Father Who cares
about you.

Below is my model prayer in song:

Ask God for Guidance and Give Him Thanks

To ask God for guidance and give him thanks are
a twosome par excellence.
There is not a litany of things I ask God for when
I pray; just this one thing: I ask Him for guidance.
Having His guidance I will do the rest.
In a similar manner, there is only one thing that
I offer to God: I give Him thanks.
There are many ways to express thanks.
Since I discovered what to ask God for and what
to give Him, my requests of Him and expressions
of gratitude to Him have been lacking in
superfluity. I simply and graciously ask God for
guidance and give Him my thanks.
And that has made all the difference in my prayer
life and way of being.

Copyright 2010 by Uriah J. Fields