About Prayer and my prayer request

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I know this has religion, please though keep it away from the cruelty of PPR, I want my marriage to be saved and not to just be harassed and mocked for my beliefs.

Jesus said in Matthew 6:5-8,

"And whenever you pray, don’t be like the hypocrites who love to stand in the synagogues and on the street corners so that they will be seen by people. I tell all of you with certainty, they have their full reward! But whenever you pray, go into your room, close the door, and pray to your Father who is hidden. And your Father who sees from the hidden place will reward you. When you are praying, don’t say meaningless things like the unbelievers do, because they think they will be heard by being so wordy. Don’t be like them, because your Father knows what you need before you ask him."

And so I wonder if it is like that when people pray loudly in churches today or even just say they're praying or if it's more like a matter of the heart as to whether you're praying to God or just saying words in front of humans. I would think at face value for the text it is better to pray to God privately and not let others know, but that's just how it seems to me.

As for my prayer request, please pray and keep praying for my wife and me to be reconciled. I don't want just comfort of words, I'd like my wife and me to actually be reconciled and back together within this year still, the sooner the better IMO. I know God's wisdom is supreme, but He gave Jacob the blessing he wanted, He gave Hannah the child she wanted, and though materialistic churchians would want only money, Christ still said,

"Keep asking, and it will be given to you. Keep searching, and you will find. Keep knocking, and the door will be opened for you. Because everyone who keeps asking will receive, and the person who keeps searching will find, and the person who keeps knocking will have the door opened. There isn’t a person among you who would give his son a stone if he asked for bread, is there? Or if he asks for a fish, he wouldn’t give him a snake, would he? So if you who are evil know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who keep on asking him!"

I don't care about wealth, but I ask that you all pray for Jacklyn, my lady who vowed lifelong vows of marriage with me, to now seek reconciliation too and that we'd be together again shortly in human terms of time such that it would be within this year that we'll be reconciled and restored and back together, that we'll spend and enjoy the rest of the decades of our lives together and be good as husband and wife for each other and that we may hopefully still raise a family and be good parents to however many children God may bless us with.

Please don't tell me you're praying for us, just please pray that we'll be reconciled and everything and let the prayers be to God so hopefully they'll be answered and not just said for human ears. I am so tired. Please, pray and keep praying to God for us. I really want this time apart to finally be over, I do love my wife Jacklyn and I hope by God she'll love me again too.

I hope that the lines of communication are open between you two.
Maybe you could reach out to her over the holidays?