We can see the bold confidence in Yahusha's half-brother "James" (properly Ya'aqob):

Jas 5:16:  "Confess your trespasses to one another, and pray for one another, so that you are healed. The earnest prayer of a righteous one accomplishes much."

The “prayer book” idea involves prepared prayers that don’t come from our hearts when we communicate with Yahuah, because someone else wrote them down.

When Yahusha commented on how to pray (the model), He was directing our minds to the key ideas that our REAL communication ought to embody.

His feeling toward “repetitive” prayer was also addressed, and He told us not to do this  -  it reminds Yahuah of how the Pagans pray.

Our communication with Yahuah ought to be spontaneous, self-composed, and filled with the same intimacy that we would have if we were with our very best friend, and speaking (and listening) to them.  If we follow human traditions, eventually we will find ourselves doing all sorts of imitative, empty behavior, one example being the donning of “prayer shawls”.  We are clay vessels, and yet we are indwelled by the most set-apart Being imaginable.  We have Yahusha within us, and He probably would rather that we speak simply from our hearts, without ceasing.  Contrived prayer is hardly any different from taking a letter that someone else wrote and giving it to our best friend.  Think of it from Yahuah’s point-of-view, and you’ll see how insulting and cold prepared prayer really is.

From my own personal experience with prayer, prayer is including Yahusha in everything I think and do.  He is with me all the time, and only waits to be
included.  He's personal, like an invisible Friend, and I believe He wants us
to be natural and informal with Him.  We can be this honest with Him, since
He knows us so intimately.  We're the ones who usually puts the 'veil' over
our minds, blocking out the knowledge that He's really there.  

He's benevolent, but we mustn't try to force Him to act.  What we do, our
aspirations, goals, and daily efforts will succeed simply by making Him a
part of them.  More accurately, we submit to His will so much in our lives,
that everything we do is His work in our lives, so it automatically
succeeds.  When we fail, it is because He is not in it, nor was it something He ever wanted us to do.   We've mostly overlooked His wishes, and wasted our time.   When we try to accomplish our designs, not His, we waste our time and effort. This is why we get the feeling He is "looking away".

1Pe 3:10-12:  “For “He who wishes to love life and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil, and his lips from speaking deceit, let him turn away from evil and do good, let him seek peace and pursue it.  Because the eyes of Yahuah are on the righteous, and his ears are open to their prayers, but the face of Yahuah is against those who do evil.”

1Pe 3:7:  "In the same way, husbands, live understandingly together, giving respect to the wife, as to the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the favor of life, so that your prayers are not hindered."

We should pray constantly in our spirit, staying connected to Yahusha as we work, study, and rest.  Our lips don't have to move for Yahusha to hear us, and no other created being can hear what is being exchanged between us and our beloved Father.  Yes, Yahusha is our Father.  Yahusha's Name means "I AM YOUR DELIVERER" (YAH + your deliverer).  Yahusha told us to pray to Yahuah in HIS Name, addressing our Father by His identity as our Deliverer.

Isa/YeshaYahu 9:6,7:  "For a Child shall be born to us, a Son shall be given to us, and the rule is on His shoulder.  And His Name is called Wonder, Counsellor, Strong El, Father of Continuity, Prince of Peace."  (Sar Shalom, ruler of peace)

Of the increase of His rule and peace there is no end, upon the throne of Da'ud and over His reign to establish it and sustain it with right-ruling and with righteousness from now on, even forever.  The ardour of Yahuah of hosts does this."

We are Yahuah's WITNESSES that He is Elohim, and there is no other deliverer but Him:

THE HOLOCAUST

     The Holocaust is difficult to explain, but the answer may be quite simple.
Who died in the holocaust?  Who was attacking them?  Israel was being attacked;  and it was a spiritual battle where ha shatan was the aggressor.  Basically, I view the character of Pharaoh in Mosheh's time as Satan, who held Israel captive (all twelve tribes of Israel).   Yahuah made a Covenant with these 12 tribes, and their seed.   Satan still hates this covenant, mainly because he remembers the height from which he has fallen.  He sees Israel taking his place, and it has driven him mad. 

     During Dawid's (or Da'ud) time, a split started just after Abshalom’s death between northern Israel and southern Israel.   These two became known as the "House of Israel", and the "House of Yahudah".  The northern "House of Israel" was made up of 10 tribes, while "Judah" (House of Yahudah) was made up of 2, Yahudah and Binyamin (Lewi was also present, but not counted in the 12).   The northern 10 tribes became a stench in Yahuah's nostrils, and Yirme Yahu 3 will show what happened -- Yahuah issued a "certificate of divorce" to the 10 tribes, and they were dispersed by the Assyrians 2700 years ago (a few thousand were taken captive).   These tribes lived in "Samaria", and became known as "Samaritans".   They added an eleventh Commandment, prohibiting the attending of the feasts at Yerushalayim.  These northern "Samaritans" are the "lost sheep of the tribes of Israel"  -- whom Yahusha was sent to re-gather, and He is doing so now, through His Natsarim.  Note particularly Yirme Yahu 3:7-9, 31:1-7,  Ezek. 37, Amos 9:9, Eph. 3, and Acts 15.   

     A little over 125 years later, the House of Yahudah was also carried away, in this case by the Babylonians.   After 70 years in captivity, only 10% of them ever returned;  so, 90% of the House of Yahudah is also "sown" into the Gentile nations  -- lost Yahudim.  The holocaust is part of the curse promised at Deut. 28-30, upon the southern tribes called "Judah", because they have acted just like their "sister", the northern tribes that were taken away 2700 years ago.   The northern tribes are called "Ephraim", Joseph's descendants, and are in the 100's of millions all over the Earth.  They are living like Pagans, but are coming to their senses as the parable of the prodigal son illustrates they will.  Like Joseph, we will reveal ourselves to our brothers one day.  But, Joseph was really a type of Mashiach Yahusha -- he was sent as a savior, and will reveal Himself to His brothers to the extent that they will mourn greatly as for a firstborn son.
The Holocaust?  That is just the Tribulation clearing it's throat. Wait
until the real concert gets into full swing.


WHAT TO DO WHEN PERSECUTED

     Let's say someone has wronged you.  They stubbornly continue to do so, and spread gossip about you.   From your point of view, you are "in the right", but you would like to "do" something about it.  It does involve "doing" something.
Scripture has the answers to all our human problems. Without knowing what to do at one time many years in the past, I felt as you do now.   I didn't know
what to do.  Here's the solution to your problem, as Yahusha gave us the
simple answer:

Pray for them.  Those who persecute us and misuse us we must pray for, and
very diligently.

Next, love them.   Love your enemies.

     Help them in any way you can, and tell them that you've taken time to give
the situation some thought, and that you're sorry for whatever part you have
played in causing the outcomes, and that you forgive them -- and will put it
in the past.  Then, keep on doing this as much as is necessary.  You will be
like your Father in Heaven, and He will see this and reward you for it.
Someone like yourself who has the hope of eternal life cannot be harmed by
anything in this world.  They can kill your body, but they cannot hurt YOU.
Yahusha was NAILED TO WOOD naked, Stephen was stoned for just saying "Yahuah" aloud; when you are in the worst pain from the torment you are subjected to, compare it with being nailed to wood naked, thirsty, your back in ribbons, and hunks of your body torn from you.

     We must realize that Yahusha speaks to us today through each other -- He didn't have to leave us anything penned in His own hand, because His Spirit is much more dynamic than that -- He is living and active, in us, His
Temple.

     We only need to be taught by the Master. He knows suffering, and our trials are only tests to see how we really are. Our reactions to circumstances are often spiritual battles -- it is not against flesh and blood that we
struggle.

QUESTIONS THAT OFTEN COME UP WHEN THE TOPIC OF PRAYER IS MENTIONED:    "AMEN"

A Question:   Can you help me out with the word “amen”?  Why do we say it?  Where did it come from?  Is it commanded to be said by YHWH whenever we pray?  Is it alright not to say it?  Should we be saying something different to end our prayers?  Is this word linked in any way to the Egyptian "Amon Ra"?