The Shift

 How do you know that your prayer life is growing and you are growing with it?  Well, you stop focusing your prayer on what you want God to do, to fix, to change, and shift to asking what God’s will is for you and the power to do what Gods wants.  It is basically a shift away from self.  The self-centered person is blind as to what they really need.  God is not blind and knows what we need.  So I start with thank you and what is your will for me.  Later I can get into what my preferences are. They usually change as I mature in the spiritual life.