Ask

Ask, and it will be given you 

 - From Matthew 7

So many prayer requests on Social Media.

People ask for specific things: to be brought through a serious operation, or illness.

They pray for wisdom for world leaders.

They make silent requests: something that must be kept secret. 

They pray for athletes before a game, or students before a test.

Do we pray for wisdom, for ourselves, much? Do we ask that God give us to tools, or the goods, to provide to others, what they have asked in prayer?

And then everybody else responds with something like "Prayers sent" (whatever that means). Or they'll see "Sending prayers your way" when the actual path of the prayers should be towards God. 

So I'm not sure about the modern way that we communicate thoughts. And speaking of "thoughts," that we put much thought into it. 

What about a simple ask? When we pray, do we stop to realize that we're asking God for something? And before we pray that other things get fixed, do we pray that God fix us? Isn't that what we really need, most of all?