The more helpless you are, the better you are fitted to pray, and the more answers to prayer you will experience.
Helplessness
Ole Kristian O. Hallesby
To pray is to open the door unto Jesus and admit Him into your distress. Your helplessness is the very thing which opens the door unto Him and gives Him access to all your needs.
James Hudson Taylor
I myself, for instance, am not especially gifted, and am shy by nature, but my gracious and merciful God and Father inclined Himself to me, and when I was weak in faith He strengthened me while I was still young. He taught me in my helplessness to rest on Him, and to pray even about little things in which another might have felt able to help himself.
Ole Kristian O. Hallesby
Listen, my friend! Your helplessness is your best prayer. It calls from your heart to the heart of God with greater effect than all your uttered pleas. He hears it from the very moment that you are seized with helplessness, and He becomes actively engaged at once in hearing and answering the prayer of your helplessness.