The words that are used to seek God are unimportant. In fact, they often hide what is truly needed. All of this is to emphasize that whatever you pray for in words is actually an invitation for your own openness to what is present. God works through you. God works through others. That is the connection to God, and all the trappings belonging to specific prayers are only so many clothes that cover an individual. They are not the individual. They are only a representation. What you pray for is only a reference to what it is you really need. If you pray for what benefits you, you are really praying for a recognition of all you are to yourself. Such essential prayer may not be expressed specifically in terms of self-awareness, but that is essentially what is behind all prayers.