Court,

I have the same problem.....all the time....If I wait until I go to bed to talk to God (say my prayers) I fall asleep within a few minutes & don't have enough time to get the words out before I am sound asleep. I have realized that prayers are talking to God, so anytime I feel the need to talk to him throughout the day, that is when I pray. I ask him for help or guidance in making the right decision when something comes up. When I used to wait until night, I would forget what I was wanting to say in the first place.

I realized when I started reading about prayer in the bible, that I was actually praying when I was thinking about what I was going to pray about when I went to bed.

Another point that I found really awsome when I started studying about prayer in the bible study that I'm going to is that when I don't know how to pray about something or dont know how to ask for something.....the Holy Spirit intercedes for us......he knows what we need & how to ask god for everything we don't know how to.....what a comforting feeling that has left me with.

I struggle with prayer many times in that I feel that God is going to answer my prayers the way he knows is right which is not necessarily the answer that I am asking for. I have started just asking him to answer my prayers in his own way.....& yet he tells us to ask for what we feel we are needing or wanting.....sometimes I wonder if he doesn't answer my prayer the way I would really like it to be answered because I'm not confident to ask for exactly what I feel need......sometimes I think that I definitely over think prayer.

Debbie