All were asked to do is Speak it out loud.
6 But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.
The closet is your heart or mind.
We are to pray in silence.
1 thess
17 Pray without ceasing.
We can not stay in a literal closet as we have work to do.
Oh. Wow.
Ok, Let me go back a step. Give me a chance to process this.
Thessalonians came to mind, but not Matthew.