The rule for distinguishing between correct and incorrect prayer

Even during Christ’s lifetime, many came to him; most asked for healing from illness, restoration of sight, and bread miraculously multiplied. And yet he fundamentally beat out some pleas or did not hear them immediately, as people would like. So how do we evaluate prayer requests? St. Augustine set the basic rule: «We can pray for what we desire, for ourselves and for others. “Prayer for something wrong is ruled out. Holy. Gregor Nazianzen speaks ironically against those who would like to
WE SAW HIS GLORY harm the neighbor’s prayer. The Father: «What a father invokes? Not one who is in heaven and gives only good!
Your father, whom you ask for evil, is Satan, the spirit of hatred.…» If you pray for conscious evil, God will not hear; leading him in such a petition offends and is sinful. Such an event rarely happens when we hope, and it reveals a perverted character. Often, however, we wish to achieve something in which we do not see anything wrong: success, money, a place. Can we laugh at that prayer? According to St. Augustine’s principle, there is, of course, nothing wrong with asking for what we long for. After all, however, striving for similar values ​​has its limits. We must not want to get rich by stealing, but to get better.
Instead of committing fraud, we should take care of our bodies and protect our souls. Work and the pursuit of some values must stop when they are no longer suitable but become slightly evil. Prayerful prayer also wants to involve God in life efforts for success and prosperity. It must always be conditional. It always thinks about what is expressed so nicely.
In the novena in honor of St. Francis Xavier: «If not what I ask for the salvation of my soul, then I ask you to ask me something else, more necessary! » Then, of course, nothing would seem more perfect.
Refrain from choosing anything, especially from asking. The more indifferent he is, the more perfect he is. He cares little about what the world cares so much about: people. About St. Gertrude writes that she more often promised her acquaintances that she would pray for their affairs. Though she prayed, she remembered everything. But God did—he heard about it. No wonder, then, that it seems better for some people not to beg for anything unusual. Liz Socrates said that prayer was enough to make us gods merciful. They attribute this opinion to Wyclef. They can favor this, to include the texts of Scripture, e.g., from the letter Romans (8:26): We do not even know what to pray for. However, if we were consistently indifferent, nothing would remain of the prayer of supplication, which is widespread in all religions and confirmed in the Gospel: “You will get everything you want by begging in faith in prayer” (Mt 21:22). The Church, therefore, grants pleas for all that is good and for all that we consider good, provided that this is done with modest judgment regarding the appropriateness or unsuitability of fulfillment. Such a prayer is always heard, though it is heard differently than we thought. For only the petition that is with Christ and in Christ is sufficient.