A friend of mine in France wrote recently, "I trust that this year will be a time when you ... will experience the Lord's presence and enabling in every situation. That seems to me much more realistic than simply writing "blessing", which often seems to me a word which is so vague no-one knows precisely what it means".
I agree totally with his comment and have often wondered what God does when we vaguely pray for his blessing on a person or on a particular meeting.I have wondered whether he ever ponders upon what exactly we might want him to do. Or perhaps he has a list of possible blessings in mind and pulls out one at random. Actually, to be honest, most times I think the request is so unspecific that that is precisely what we get as an answer- something unspecific!
Take a church service or meeting as an example. What would happen if instead of asking God to "bless our meeting" we asked God to so speak into our meeting that our lives will be transformed by the experience, or that Mrs Smith will finally open her heart to Jesus, or that the youth will dedicate the rest of their lives to God's service, or that Mr. Jones persistent cough will be healed?
Are millions of Christians missing out in prayer simply because we are to vague in what we pray for? I suspect we are.
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