The simple process of prayer.

In Tuedays Five Minute Praise we read, "The truth is that we have three aspects to our lives:  Body - Soul - Spirit.  When we are born the body is fully alive, the soul is under development and the spirit is - well, for want of a better word, dead."

Because we live in a physical world we need our bodies (just for now) but sometime it simply gets in the way
Prayer is seemingly a simple process and there are so many kinds of prayer, too. There is the 'off the cuff' type of prayer when we might think, "Please help me get through this traffic jam..." or "Help me with this Saturday Wrap...".
Another kind of prayer is when we pray together, like in church or at a  fellowship meeting.
Yet another prayer type is not deliberately given as prayer but is received as such...(He is so loving. caring and wise).... When you are desperately worried or concerned He hears your plight as a prayer for help; when you feel 'JOY' He hears your prayer of thanks and praise; when you feel confused He hears your prayer for guidance and when you feel alone He hears your prayer for comfort.
I think the most important prayer-type is to do with our personal relationship with our Lord, the prayer we pray when we are alone at a special, set-aside 'quiet time'.
When we pray like this we should leave our bodies behind....thoughts of prayer are in the mind which is born of the brain. Words are spoken from the mouth which is of the body.
There should be no thinking of what to say next. Prayer comes from the heart it's not a thought process but is of the spirit. If the prayer does not come He is still hearing what is in your heart. It is an expression of need. We need to communicate, we need help, we need to praise Him and glorify Him and worship Him and thank Him. In this unphysical place of prayer, there is no room for the flesh nor the mind.
In prayer we travel half way to 'a place' where we are met by He who listens and answers. It is by God's grace that we can meet this way.

(God's grace, you can not earn it, steel it nor borrow it. You can not buy it nor claim it. You do not deserve or have a right to it. but God's Grace is upon us all; He loves us.
But do not allow yourself to feel too safe or complacent or honored or favored in His grace, for there is no sin you can perceive that you are not capable of committing .... the enemy is always near)

The enemy is near and will always use our own bodies against us...like when you are trying to pray, isn't there always some distraction or other...that unexpected sound of crashing dishes from the kitchen that  jerks you back into the physical world for an instant....or that raised voice from the street or that itch on the side of your face trying desperately to slam the door on our Lord. Sometimes that simple process of prayer can become such a battle with your physical self. Fight on.