Prayer is talking to God and presenting him with our requests. One of the privileges of following Jesus is our open access to the throne of grace. It is easy for a Christian to stop anywhere and pray anytime.

The problem is that I do not think most believers take it seriously enough. We throw up prayers without thinking about how God might respond.

We might pray to spend more time with our family, never thinking that it might mean my job might change and force me to stay home.

We might pray for God to give us patience and not consider that he might force us to wait in some area of our life that we find unbearable.

We might pray for greater faith, and He might respond by testing the limits of our trust in him through an illness.

We might pray for more robust relationships, and the answer might be forcing ourselves to work through issues with some difficult people.

One prayer might very well set in motion a series of events you never expected.

Be very careful what you pray for … because you just might get it.