If you want to be a person of prayer, start praying.  Take time for prayer.  Pray with others.  Pray alone.  Hear His whispers.  Feel His heart.  Let His mind get inside you.  He is waiting.  Pray the prayers of others.  Pray the Psalms.  Pray the Scriptures.  Write prayers.  We lose heart when we do not pray.  We give up when we do not pray.  Prayer is to be the constant communication of our spirit with God.  It is the set of our sail.  It is the true north of our compass.

“Then Jesus told his disciples a parable to show them that they should always pray and not give up.” Luke 18:1 (NIV)