Still here, obviously I am doing something wrong. Perhaps starting of with 'For the love of Jesus Christ will you stoop , . . . ' has something to do with effectiveness of said prayer. Perhaps something more along the line of 'Dear lord save me from, . . . ' might be the magic way.

Now the real question. The Gospels promote that prayer can be effective but it also hints at the opening should be the Lord's Prayer and then the petition. Others say doing that qualifies as the 'vain repetitions' part of Scripture and God frowns on that. There is even a 3rd option in the same story, the Publican simply says, 'Have mercy om me a sinner.' and he has a justified prayer and it could be used to cover what would be said in a whole private prayer type of thing.
From the above which option is the one that works once this time period starts to unfold.

De:4:30:
When thou art in tribulation,
and all these things are come upon thee,
even in the latter days,
if thou turn to the LORD thy God,
and shalt be obedient unto his voice;
De:4:31:
(For the LORD thy God is a merciful God;)
he will not forsake thee,
neither destroy thee,
nor forget the covenant of thy fathers which he sware unto them.