how to pray

What do you pray for? Do you notice that most prayer requests are for those who already have their spiritual lives in order, and they get the most fervent prayer, while those who struggle with weaknesses such as alcohol are left to fend for themselves?  Yet aren’t those who are spiritually strong better equipped to deal with any problem than those who are not? Do you show judgment in prayer by neglecting those who are complicit in their problems? Consider my own example and words, that I was not sent to call the righteous but rather to the sinners, and that the well have no need of a physician, and the good shepherd left the 99 in the fold to go after one lost sheep.