Let God be God, and you be you.

God created the world with a word, we know that nothing is impossible with Him but it can be tempting to get fatalistic when praying because we focus on God's power to do the incredible.  We say, "your will be done" and that is entirely right, but it shouldn't be God's will being done while we sit back relaxing and waiting for it all to happen!

This is a story that I love, the story of Peter being miraculously saved from prison by an Angel of God, it's in Acts 12...

" ⁵ So Peter was kept in prison, but the church was earnestly praying to God for him.
 ⁶ The night before Herod was to bring him to trial, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, and sentries stood guard at the entrance. ⁷ Suddenly an angel of the Lord appeared and a light shone in the cell. He struck Peter on the side and woke him up. “Quick, get up!” he said, and the chains fell off Peter’s wrists.
 ⁸ Then the angel said to him, “Put on your clothes and sandals.” And Peter did so. “Wrap your cloak around you and follow me,” the angel told him. ⁹ Peter followed him out of the prison, but he had no idea that what the angel was doing was really happening; he thought he was seeing a vision. ¹⁰ They passed the first and second guards and came to the iron gate leading to the city. It opened for them by itself, and they went through it. When they had walked the length of one street, suddenly the angel left him. "

What I think is brilliant about this story is not so much what the angel does, but what it doesn't do. I mean, it's an angel - it has the power to just appear in a locked cell, surely it could have just picked Peter up like superman and blasted him out of the prison in a blaze of light... but no, it doesn't do that.

The angel is sent to do the impossible, the miraculous - but Peter has to do what he can too. He has to get up, put on his clothes and sandals and walk himself out of prison.

We have to do our part, God will do His. When we pray "your will be done" is what we are really asking is that we sit back and watch God work while we admire?  I don't think so, what we are really asking is that our actions will go along with His will.  That we will be ready with our shoes and cloak on because we have been and we are doing our bit!