What Would You Pray For?

Crazy Hypothetical*:

What it you knew the next thing you prayed for would be answered exactly as you prayed for it, what you ask for? How would you pray?

Would you think more about what you are praying for? Could your prayer go horribly wrong in some sort of Monkey’s Paw way? (Think about generic prayer statements, I.E. be with the sick, keep us faithful, guard, guide and direct us) Would you be selfish? What if this only worked on the last thing you prayed for? What does this say about how we think God is going to answer our prayer?

*Crazy Hypothetical is a mental game that gives you a conditional choice that gets you thinking about a subject. I used these for several years as discussion starters in Bible class. The best ones can’t be answered “correctly”. They require you to think beyond an immediate reaction. You have to choose one of the options, it's no fun if you don’t