DOCTRINE OF PRAYER III

Believers are to pray in the enabling power (filling) of God the Holy Spirit, Eph 6:18 "With all prayer and petition pray at all times in the Spirit."
God the Father, the recipient of prayer, receives prayer from three sources in the Church-age.
a. From God the Son, Heb 7:25.
b. From God the Holy Spirit, Rom 8:26-27. God the Holy Spirit prays for you when you need help and don't know you need help. He also prays for people who cannot pray for themselves. This is probably unique to the Church-age and related to the function of the omnipotence of the Holy Spirit on our behalf.
c. From Church-age believers as Royal Priests, Heb 4:16. "Let us be approaching the throne of grace with confidence that we may receive mercy and acquire grace with reference to seasonable help."

True confidence can only exist in prayer when the believer attains at least the first stage of spiritual adulthood, spiritual self-esteem, 1Jo 3:21-22 "and whatever we ask we receive from Him, because we keep His commands and do the things that are pleasing in His sight. And this is His command, that we believe in the name of His Son Jesus Christ, and impersonally love one another, just as He commanded us."
Prayer effectiveness is related to reaching spiritual self-esteem. Failure in prayer is related to no personal love for God or mental attitude sins. Prayer is also related to the omniscience of God. Isa 65:24 "Before they call I will answer; while they are still speaking, I will hear.God hears the prayer twice: in eternity past, and at the time of the prayer. In fact, prayers and their answers were entered into the divine decrees, so that answers, rejections, petitions, interjections, and desires are all printouts of the decrees in the foreknowledge of God.