The little tip that completely changed my prayer life

Recently I heard it said that when you pray you should see yourself as a lawyer in God's courtroom, pleading your case with the word of God, and the desires of God, and what God has done in the past. This has been one of the most life changing pieces of advice I have ever received. I know there are examples of people doing this in the Bible. The first one that comes to mind is Numbers 14. God stated that he planned on destroying the Jews because of their unbelief, yet Moses is able to make God change his mind!
How does Moses do this? Pay attention because I see this as an awesome model we can use when we wish to plead our cases to God.

The LORD said to Moses, "How long will these people treat me with contempt? How long will they refuse to believe in me, in spite of all the miraculous signs I have performed among them? ¹² I will strike them down with a plague and destroy them, but I will make you into a nation greater and stronger than they."

¹³ Moses said to the LORD, "Then the Egyptians will hear about it! By your power you brought these people up from among them. ¹⁴ And they will tell the inhabitants of this land about it. They have already heard that you, O LORD, are with these people and that you, O LORD, have been seen face to face, that your cloud stays over them, and that you go before them in a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night. ¹⁵ If you put these people to death all at one time, the nations who have heard this report about you will say, ¹⁶ 'The LORD was not able to bring these people into the land he promised them on oath; so he slaughtered them in the desert.'

¹⁷ "Now may the Lord's strength be displayed, just as you have declared: ¹⁸ 'The LORD is slow to anger, abounding in love and forgiving sin and rebellion. Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished; he punishes the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation.' ¹⁹ In accordance with your great love, forgive the sin of these people, just as you have pardoned them from the time they left Egypt until now."

²⁰ The LORD replied, "I have forgiven them, as you asked.

In verse 13 I noticed that Moses is appealing to God's own desires. He basically says that if God allows his people to get destroyed by their enemies then the peoples will say that The Lord was not powerful enough to do what He promised and bring the Jews into the land. So he is appealing to God's desire for His Glory to be known. He then, in verse 18, appeals to God's character using the very words God spoke in Exodus 34:6. Finally, in verse 19, Moses appeals to what God has done in the past, asking that he would do it again.
So with this in mind, this is perhaps how your prayers should sound:
Lord, you said this...and you said this... so I ask you for this...just like you have done for me in the past, and just like you did in the lives of...Also God I ask you to do this... so that your Glory will be shown, and so that the people will know who you are.
I have a lot more to say on this topic. Feel free to call or email if you want to chat more about it.
With Christ's love,
Charlie