Is that what you’re expecting? That whatever you need/want will somehow miraculously ‘plop’ into your lap? Do you secretly believe this? When you ask others to pray for you do you then simply abrogate your involvement or responsibilities since it’s now their responsibility to pray for whatever you need/want? You might be surprised at how many people do act in those ways… but you? How do you respond?
The first thing that you have to appreciate is that God is not a God of plopping. One of the definitions of plop is: to place or set carelessly or hastily and God never acts carelessly or hastily – that is not His nature. Or do you think He should in your case? Do you deserve ‘more’? Modestly you’d probably respond ‘no’ but when you ask God to act contrary to His character, that’s precisely what you are saying – “show partiality in my case”.
Do you realize how demanding of God we are that He fulfill His promises to us and yet how cavalier we are when it comes to honoring His requests – basically to love and forgive? Why do we assume and presume? Sometimes it’s because we realize that God is the only one who can get us out of the predicament we got ourself into. We need His help. But unfortunately we basically give empty promises to entice God to help and ignore the ‘conditions’ – we rarely look at the entire verse we are standing on, we look only at what God will do.
But… seriously! Can you think of anything that doesn’t come with conditions: either to receive (whatever) or after getting ‘it’? I would say, and without fear of contradiction, that there is absolutely nothing that isn’t connected with conditions and not just the empty promises on our part. Think about it… In some fashion you have to be involved and complete the requirement(s) – conditions, the rest of the verse. If you don’t do your part why should God do His? He does, remember He first loved us.
