Before you pray, bow quietly before God, just to remember and realize who He is, how near He is, how certainly He can and will help.
Wait on God until you know you have met Him; prayer will then become so different.
Wait upon God as a Living Being, as the Living God, who notices you, and is just longing to fill you with His salvation.
Just be still before Him, and allow His Holy Spirit to waken and stir up in your soul the childlike disposition of absolute dependence and confident expectation.
Before you pray, bow quietly before God, just to remember and realize who He is, how near He is, how certainly He can and will help