Prayer doesn't change the mind of God but prayer, make no mistake about it, prayer does change things. Prayer changes history.Please dear God I am pleading with you please help me. I put this in a very strong light, but I am certain that I go no farther than God's word will warrant. Oh for grace to plead the promise and to rest upon it! By asking in the will of God, I think you are acknowledging that whatever God would want to do would be best. The last thing that Jesus wants to teach us here in the Lord's Prayer is that we need our Father's help because we live lives full of danger. I pray that I would abide in your presence where no evil can approach me but instead I am blessed to fellowship with you day and night. Take heart and to see that the Lord is accomplishing something through your prayers, something greater than if he were to give you what you desire. In this single text there is the same mixing up of sweet perfumes as there is in the whole psalm.