Titles

Nehemiah's prayer is a good example of addressing God in a way that's consistent with what and how we speak to Him in prayer.  For example, is it consistent to pray to God as "Lord" and then give Him a list of things we want Him to do for us? At such times, it would probably be more appropriate to address God as "Father" or "great Giver of life."...When in pain or grief, we might address the Lord as "God of all comfort" or "God of hope" or "blessed Friend" or "the one who has promised never to leave us." Taking our cue from the Israelites and their sensitivity to the many characteristics of their beloved God, we should never speak His names or titles lightly.

~ Approaching God 
Learning from Nehemiah pg 14
By Lee Brase

A Rebel's Prayer

Oh, my God, how great was thy goodness, to bear with me at this time, and to allow me to pray to Thee with as much boldness, as if I had been one of thy friends, I who had rebelled against Thee as thy greatest enemy.

Madame Guyon
pg 50

Answers to Prayer

In the course of a discussion about the efficacy of prayer, he [C.S. Lewis] made the point that it was altogether healthier to find yourself being used as the answer to someone else's prayer And he told the story of his nagging impulse to go and get an unneeded haircut, finding when he gave in to it that his barber had been steadily praying that Lewis would come by.

A Severe Mercy
Thou Art the King of Glory
page 110
Sheldon Vanauken