Keep on repeating this to yourself

Prayer is the soul's sincere desire, uttered or unexpressed. Sincere prayer always reaches to the throne of God. Those who follow the philosophy of so-called New Thought in its various phases are quite familiar with the wonderful power of thought. Prayer is thought with something else added to it—the Soul's sincere desire, which is more than thought. Realise that our prayers join us in aspiration to the Divine and that we are praying for those things that we feel are the wish and the design of God; hence our prayers cannot fail to be answered although they may not always be answered all at once.