How detailed should prayers be?

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Ok, this will likely be the last topic I make in here.

I also want to say that this isn’t something I worry about, and it doesn’t cause me any fear, or anxiety.

I just wanted to know what other people think.

God knows everything, so when I pray for a group of people, say like 5 people, should I list off all of their names? Or is saying all of those people as a group kinda the same?

I’m mostly asking so I can prevent redundancy, and then I don’t get too focused on names and the like.
 
So if I say for example, God please be with all emergency services, I don’t need to say, “God, please be with all Fire, EMS, Police, etc.”? I sort of thought so, but I usually find myself just listing things off, and being very specific.
 
You can be as short or as detailed as you want.

Some prayer might be extremely brief. Other prayers might be you telling God a long story, as if you were telling it to the most trustworthy friend in the world. Either of these prayers are fine and pleasing.

"Aquire the habit of speaking to God as if you were alone with Him, familiarly and with confidence and love, as to the dearest and most loving of friends. Speak to Him often of your business, your plans, your troubles, your fears - of everything that concerns you. Converse with Him confidently and frankly; for God is not wont to speak to a soul that does not speak to Him."
  • St. Alphonsus de Liguori
 
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Ah, ok. Sometimes I get doubts after like, “I wasn’t detailed enough, so this prayer was invalid” so then I go really into detail, sometimes repeating myself.
Doesn’t really bother me though.
 
There is no such thing as invalid prayer. It’s you talking to God and God listening, and God talking to you, and you listening. It’s conversation of love.
 
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