Prayer For Change

Do you pray for someone to stop doing some addictive, bad habit?  But they don’t?  Did God abandon the situation?  No.  Maybe the prayer needs to be that the person first experience the depth of pain that will bring them to seek help to change their addictive life.  In some circles, it is called a spiritual bottom.  In their darkness, there is a light.  But they might not know where to go for help.  So, along with your prayer that they might survive their bottom, have a phone number or place that can help.  Few people stop bad behavior for the sake of others.  OK.  Maybe, but it will be temporary.  They are too selfish.   They stop when it hurts themself too much.