Prayer as a spiritual discipline seems to have fallen on hard times, as it were. At least that seems to be the view from my own life more often than I'd care to admit. Last week some friends were pondering the significance of the intercession of Christ on behalf of the believer. We recalled that from time to time believers like to quote 'The prayer of a righteous man availeth much' (James 5), but if this is true (and it is), then what can we say about the prayer of Christ Himself, who ever lives to intercede for us (Hebrews 7)? Someone shared a quote from RC Sproul which I can't seem to find at the moment, but it went something like, "If the prayers of a righteous man availeth much, what on EARTH can the prayers of Christ Himself avail?"... 

God became man not only to show me how it's done, but to do for me what I am incapable of doing ON MY OWN.    

We were made to be held, and to pray through our brokenness with the knowledge that we are helpless, is to be held in the arms of God Himself.