Earnest prayer

Hebrews 5:7  Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared;

Many believers pray, but their prayers lack some important component of earnestness. Earnest means prayers are very sincere and intense. They do not come from one who is praying but maybe their heart and mind are on something else. The vibrancy by which they are said is also high. 

I have never prayed more earnestly than I do whenever I pray in other tongues. They are also usually loud and engage your whole being. Earnest people will shout, clap, jump, pace around. Even when one is lying down, sitting on a chair, it does not matter the posture, earnestness is required to bear good results. On the other hand some are fond of whispering while praying and end up dosing off! 

Whenever I am about to make a key decision, the prayers I say in such times are very earnest. Earnest prayers silence all other voices in your mind, and situations which say the opposite in your current situation so that you focus on what the Spirit is saying at that very moment.  

There is place for every kind of prayer, but if you require the boldness to do great things for the Lord and for your personal advancement in the face of fear, trials and times of confusion, you got to be loud, earnest and bold when you are praying.  

Further Scriptures

Hebrews 2:1  Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip.

James 5:17 Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months