Prayer must change the prayee

Prayer is not just to change situations or circumstances. Prayer is not just to receive the desired request. Rather prayer is to change us. The praying person is to be changed through prayer.
The more we petition God for souls,revival,and an awakening,the more something begins to form inside of us. Instead of just asking for souls because it is the right thing to do and because we know people need to be saved, something starts to change within us. It starts to become a "must have" and then it becomes an "urgent matter" and then it becomes a "burden" that cannot be denied. Then it becomes a driving force; it becomes our daily food; it becomes a necessity of existence to pray for revival.
The prayer for revival must change us until we become the prayer;until it is the air we breathe and the food we eat. It must become a part of us.
We must be a people desperate for God otherwise how can we expect the world to be desperate for God?