Let’s be honest! As much as we love the idea of prayer, prayer can be hard work. That’s true when we don’t know what to pray, or when God’s will is a mystery to us. And it is especially true when we are weak, wrung out by whatever decision or distress or difficulty is dominating our lives. I would guess that most of us, if not all of us, have been in that place sometime in life. We are tempted to shut down, give up, just walk away from prayer, but the message of Romans