Guideline to prayer

1) Pray daily, with many different requests to God.
2) First be right with God, prayer will be ineffective with our relationship with God and others is not right. If you have sin, repent from it, sin separate us from God. 1 John 3:21-22
3) Pray with the right motives, if we pray with wrong motives, we would not receive what we ask for. Use common sense, God is not a magical genie, that we can turn to get what we want. James 4:3
4) Be lead by the holy spirit, the holy spirit helps us in our prayers. Romans 8:26-27
5) Pray according to God's will, if we do we will have what we ask for. 1 John 5:14-15
6) Have faith that God will answer our prayers, believe that you will receive, if we don;t have faith to believe it will happen, it won;t happen. Mark 11:22-24. Note in verse 25 for forgiveness with anyone so our prayers will be effective.
7) Write a diary, a list of prayers that you have request to God and then check how many prayers have been answered. This will give you a guideline to how your prayers are going.
8) Don;t give up, keep trying, go back to step one if necessary.
9) remember the prayer of the righteous is powerful and effective James 5:16