Can prayer be selfish?

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Can praying for yourself or for your own family only be selfish?

I know that you should pray for everyone, but is praying for your own needs bad?

I honestly find it hard to pray, I just find myself repeating the same things over and over.
 
Prayer is when you talk to God.

There are four general types of prayers-- Petition, Adoration, Contrition, and Thanksgiving. (PACT)

Selfish prayers sound like a litany of requests— it focuses on Petition, Petition, Petition. And a lot of times, it focuses on other people in a negative way-- Make This Person Stop Doing This Thing, Help That Person Do That Thing, I Don’t Have This But I Need it, etc.

Good prayers take the time to even out the other kinds of prayer— Adoration, where you’re a creature basking in the greatness of your Creator; Contrition, where you look inwardly and ask for the grace to mend your shortcomings and be a better person to those around you; Thanksgiving, where you take a moment to appreciate all the things God has done for you and for those around you.
 
7 But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions,
as the heathen do:
for they think that they shall be heard
for their much speaking.
8 Be not ye therefore like unto them:
for your Father knoweth
what things ye have need of,
before ye ask him.

9 After this manner therefore pray ye:
 
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