There is a way to pray and get your prayers answered. Understanding how God wants us to petition Him and understanding all that He wants us to receive helps manifest our desires.
3.) Remain in faith until you see the manifestation of those desires.

Hebrews 11:1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
 
Look around you. Can you see the radio waves from the cell phone towers or the wifi signals? No, but if you connect to the network you can make those calls or peruse social media. They’re real even if you don’t see them.
God is a Spirit (John 4:24), and a tripartite being (Matt. 28:19; 1 John 5:6-8; John 1:1-2). He made us in His image (Gen. 1:27). We are spirit beings who have souls and live in bodies (1 Thess. 5:23; Heb. 4:12). According to our senses, our bodies are the most real part of us. The Truth is our spirits are the realist part of who we are. That’s why when we accept Christ as Savior our spirits become perfect (made righteous; Rom. 7 and 3:22) even if our bodily actions haven’t yet caught up.
So, the spiritual world is more real than the natural world. When we ask, we have already been assured that we have received our request because we have it in the spiritual realm. That’s a faith fact according to Hebrews 11:1. That’s how you can believe you have received something you haven’t yet seen manifest in the physical world. Now, it may take time for that faith fact to become a physical fact. That’s where faith comes in. Until we see the physical manifestation of what we asked, we pray, God I thank you I believe have received…  And, we remain in faith until we see the physical manifestation of our desires. Once we see them, we thank Him for the manifestation of them.
~Inspired by the teachings of Dr. Frederick K.C. Price